Fair Highlights

Feed your Country Soul at the Dundas Fair, August 22-26, 2012

Plan to join us in 2012 for our annual Provincial Plowing Match & Agricultural Fair at Dundas, PEI ... experience the "Down Home" feel of a real country fair and "Feed Your Country Soul!"

Weekend campers welcome during the Fair (certain conditions apply).

Free admission for children 12 years old and under.

Tentative schedule for 2012

Heritage Draft Animal (Horse & Oxen) Demonstration: Plowing, discing, seeding, cutting, thrashing, stacking, skidding, etc.

  • heritage performers, local artisans and artists
  • plowing (tractor, antique tractor, horse and oxen)
  • horse pull
    • 2-horse abreast
  • heritage demonstrations
    • feature - plowing demonstration
    • feature - heavy horse demonstration (braiding, hitching)
    • rug hooking demonstration
    • horse shoeing
    • sheep shearing
    • Antique Farm Equipment Museum
  • oxen plowing and pull
  • Queen of the Furrows competition
  • horticulture, handicraft, baking and 4-H displays
  • horse shows
    • draft horse
      • team hitch
      • unicorn hitch (3)
      • 4-horse hitch
      • 6-horse hitch
    • light horse
    • miniature horse
  • cattle (daiy & beef) shows and demonstrations
  • rabbit show and demonstration
  • poultry show and demostration
  • local Island entertainment
    • PEI Mutual Insurance Company Youth Talent 2011
    • country dance
    • Ceilidh, featuring local performers
  • A taste of PEI - locally grown and produced food
    • farmers' market, featuring locally grown and produced products
    • home-cooked meals, prepared on site using locally grown and produced products
    • "Savour the Flavours of PEI" cooking demonstrations
    • Out of the Sea and Over the Coals seafood demonstrations
    • Island-made icecream
    • Island-made meats / sausages
  • lots of free activities for the kids
    • horse-drawn wagon rides
    • horse and pony rides
    • pig scramble
    • petting zoo
    • magic show
    • poultry display
    • bubble gum contest
    • youth trivia
    • pedal power pull
    • face painting
    • ballon twister
    • parade
  • midway and games
  • bessy bingo
  • wife hollering
  • baby bottle toss
  • ... and much more!

Our Executive

President: Sandra Hodder-Acorn

Past President: Bruce MacLennan

1st Vice President: Gordon Jackson

2nd Vice President: Dean MacKinnon

Secretary: Shelley Ployer

Treasurer: Paul Jackson

 

Honorary Members

Garth Clay

Marion MacLeod

Neil Ross

Directors

Raymond Downe

Robert Jackson

Wendall Kennedy

Stephen MacEwen

John Riley

Heber Ross

Amie Swallow

Douglas MacDonald

Kevin Taylor