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Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Weekend before Canadian Thanksgiving. Country fair with horse pull, demolition derby, tractor pull.
Markham Fair is one of Canada's oldest country fairs, an annual event established in 1844. It is located in Markham, Ontario and hosted by the Markham and East York Agricultural Society. With over 700 volunteers working on more than 70 committees, Markham Fair is the largest community-based volunteer organization in Canada. The fair and fairgrounds are owned by the agricultural society.
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This 25 acre open-air museum features nearly 30 buildings from Markham's past: houses, barns, sheds, a train station, a school, a general store, a church, a blacksmith, a harness shop, a saw mill, a cider mill, and many more.
current Markham GO Station
The Toronto and Nipissing Railway Company (T&N) built this station in 1871. The station was later inherited by the Canadian National Railway and it still serves a railway function today for GO Transit. The one-storey building has a box shape broken only by a shallow operator's bay. Today, a community centre occupies the west end of the station building with a waiting room for commuters at the east end. Through the windows, one can see an old-fashion stove in the waiting room.
Robert J. Corson built this High Victorian Picturesque house in 1887.
Henry Wilson built this High Victorian picturesque home in 1886.
Watchmaker William Browning built this cottage circa 1845.
This former town hall was built 1882 for $4,437. The basement was divided with Village council meeting in the south half, and the jail occupying the north half. The Masonic and Oddfellow Lodges met on the second storey.