From the President – 2023 Fall Fair
Each year the goal of everyone involved with the Cowichan Exhibition – staff and volunteers – is to improve on the previous Fall Fair. That will take some doing in 2023 as last year’s Fair was a great success! As you look through the pages of this year’s catalogue you will see changes that will add extra interest. To highlight a few, Loggers Sports are coming back after missing the last three years. Our Zucchini Races are being revitalized; a motorcycle enthusiast and his constructor buddy have designed a clever chassis to hold a single marrow as it zips down the track. Twenty-seven kids coming to the fair on race day can each borrow one to create their ‘mean green machines’ — zucchinis included!”.
Building on last year’s success with just one Drill Team performing precision horse riding demonstrations, there will now be two. So double the action! In Mellor Hall check out the many classes drawing upon “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” theme; we’ve also got competitive classes inspired by this spring’s coronation of King Charles III. For entertainment, the always popular Zachary Stevenson is returning. There will also be a magician doing stage acts and roving the grounds. Please join us for the 2023 Cowichan Exhibition, we want you to have as much fun here as we do!
A. D. Irwin
Past Presidents
Prior to 1948, the Cowichan Exhibition Society and the Cowichan Agricultural Society operated under the same leadership, beginning with Archdeacon Reece in 1868, the first year of the fair. This list reflects the leadership of the Cowichan Exhibition Society when it became a Board on its own.