DCHP-3

fall fair

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a fair held each fall in many Canadian communities for the exhibiting and judging of livestock, home-baking, etc., often accompanied by horse races, dancing, and other forms of entertainment.

Quotations

1903
Goarden usually sang with special gusto upon his return from the county town late in the evening of a fall fair-day.
1949
. . . a man in a gig training a trotter for the Fall Fair trotting races.
1960
. . . the first Township Fall Fair [King, Ont.] was organized in 1852.
1965
The 15th. Annual Fall fair at Fort Simpson held last week, brought exhibits from other northern settlements including Fort Franklin, Jean Marie River, Fort Providence and Nahanni Butte.