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With approximately 1.6 million visitors each year, the CNE is Canada's largest annual community event and one of the top fairs in North America. [2] The exhibition, then known as the Toronto Industrial Exhibition, first took place in 1879, largely to promote agriculture and technology in Toronto and area. Agriculturists, engineers, and ...
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.
The Edmonton Expo Centre, formerly the Northlands AgriCom and also known as the Edmonton Exposition and Conference Centre [2] is a multi-purpose convention centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Operated by Explore Edmonton on behalf of the City of Edmonton, it is located in Edmonton's Montrose neighbourhood, across the street from the now-closed ...
From July 11 to 20, 2015, the Coliseum hosted the gymnastics competition of the 2015 Pan American Games, during which it was known as the "Toronto Coliseum." [48] The Coliseum hosted the Longines World Cup Jumping (Equestrian) Championships in November 2015. The Coliseum hosted events as part of the 2016 NBA All-Star Weekend in Toronto over 2 days:
The Edmonton CMA is the largest of the 41 CMAs [a] in Canada by area, at 9,416.19 km 2 (3,635.61 sq mi). [5] In the 2021 Canadian census, it had a population of 1,418,118, making it the sixth largest CMA in Canada by population, with the second largest percentage increase in national CMA population (37.0% versus 37.3% for the Calgary CMA ) over ...
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.
On November 2, 2009, Calgary withdrew its intent to bid on an expo in 2017. [4] At the end of the month, Edmonton submitted its bid to the Government of Alberta and Government of Canada. [5] On May 13, 2010, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach announced that the Government of Alberta would support the international bid for Expo 2017. "We are certainly ...
Commerce Place is an office and retail complex in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The complex's skyscraper stands at 125 m (410 ft) or 27 storeys tall and was completed in 1990. [ 4 ] Commerce Place has a small selection of shops in the main levels of the mall [ 5 ] and is connected to Edmonton City Centre and Manulife Place by pedway .