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The
Ancaster Agricultural Society is a member based non-profit charitable
organization. Incorporated 159 years ago, designed to educate and
enlighten the farm populace. The mandate was to assist farmers in
importing livestock, grain, grass seeds, implements and other items
beneficial to the improvement of agriculture. The Society used its
capital, acquired by subscriptions and grants to purchase cultivation
items, the local farmers did not have the money to by or import
themselves. Items of livestock where bought and shared among the member
for the common good.
The
local fair was the location that commodity prices were set. After
winning first place in the show ring a farmer could name his price for
his cattle, poultry or grains, the milk and cheese prices were also set
at these highly competitive competitions.
The
Society has survived many local and global disasters.
The Fair has only been closed down once in its many years of
existence and that was because of the Infantile Paralysis scare in 1937.
By
the late twentieth century, the Society became best known for the
“Ancaster Fair”. 159 years of achievements are now consigned to the
pages of history.
The
Society has now successfully moved
four times and has grown larger and stronger because of these changes.
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