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The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), also known as The Exhibition or The Ex, is an annual fair that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on the third Friday of August leading up to and including Labour Day, the first Monday in September. With approximately 1.6 million visitors each year, the CNE is Canada's largest ...
Exhibition Place is a publicly owned mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown.The 197-acre (80 ha) site includes exhibit, trade, and banquet centres, theatre and music buildings, monuments, parkland, sports facilities, and a number of civic, provincial, and national historic sites.
Main Building (Crystal Palace) in 1878. The Canadian National Exhibition is an annual fair held at the end of August in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It was established in 1879 as a modest agricultural and industrial exhibition and has expanded to an annual fair that attracts over one and a half million persons during its two-and-a-half week run.
This list includes festivals of diverse types, such as regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays. The city hosts several large festivals each year including Canada's largest gay pride festival, national exhibition, and film festival.
Enercare Centre, formerly known as the Direct Energy Centre and originally the National Trade Centre, [1] is an exhibition complex located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [2] It is used by the Canadian National Exhibition and the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair , as well as by various trade shows.
Robert Fleming, President of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) declared that the building would be the largest of its kind in the world, with a floor space of 8.5 acres (3.4 ha). [12] [13] Construction of the arena in October 1921. The building was later opened in December 1921.
Held at Toronto's Exhibition Place, the Canadian National Exhibition is Canada's largest annual fair, averaging 1.5 million visitors each year. Toronto's Caribana festival is one of North America's largest street festivals, [2] taking place from mid-July to early August of every summer.
Exhibition Stadium was the fourth stadium to be built on its site since 1879. [1] When the original grandstand was lost due to a fire in 1906, it was quickly rebuilt. [1] A second fire destroyed the stadium in April 1946, which led to the city constructing a covered north-side grandstand (known as CNE Grandstand) for CA$3.5 million in 1948.