Fair Highlights

Feed your Country Soul at the Dundas Fair, August 25-29, 2010

Download the 2010 program.

Plan to join us at our 70th 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.... Free admission for children 12 years old and under.

Tentative schedule

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
    • 3-horse abreast
  • heritage demonstrations
    • rug hooking demonstration
    • horse shoeing
    • sheep shearing
    • Antique Farm Equipment Museum
  • oxen plowing and pull
  • Queen of the Furrows competition (2010 marks our 45th anniversary)
  • horticulture, handicraft, baking and 4-H displays
  • horse shows
    • draft horse
    • light horse
    • miniature horse
  • cattle (daiy & beef) shows and demonstrations
  • rabbit show and demonstration
  • poultry show and demostration
  • local Island entertainment
    • Youth Talent 2010
    • 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
    • poultry display
    • midway and games
    • bubble gum contest
    • youth trivia
    • pedal power pull
    • magic show
    • face painting
    • ballon twister
    • parade
  • 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

Brent Matheson