Please take a look below for the online version of our 2025 Official Fall Fair Catalogue.
Our 2025 Fall Fair’s theme is “Winged Wonders” based on the book “Bugs: A Day in the Life” – celebrating everything that flies – so think dragonflies, bees, ladybugs, grasshoppers, bats, moths, butterflies, – “let your imagination soar!”
Our 2025 Colour Challenge: Maroon, Sea Green, Sky Blue, and Silver Shimmer!
2025 Official Catalogue – Online version
2025 Fair Entry Forms & Individual Division Pages – NOW AVAILABLE!
ENTRY FORMS: These downloadable pdf forms can be filled out, printed and mailed OR dropped off to the office during regular business hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm from July 4 to September 3rd, 2025. Please note: Registration will not be accepted via the phone or email. Check each Division for entry fees – After September 3, entry fees double.
4-H Clubs Livestock Horses Hall
IMPORTANT DATES:
Entry Form Deadline: Wednesday, September 3 at 4:00 PM
Exhibit Drop off Dates:
August 11 to Sept 5 – 9:30am to 4pm – Photography including Juniors. Please drop off at the Office.
Tuesday, September 9 – 10am to 5:30pm – Creative Stitchery, Fine Arts, Knitting & Crochet, Quilts in the Barn, Sewing, Spinning, Weaving & Fibre Arts including Juniors. At Mellor Hall.
Wednesday, Sept 10 – 9:30 am to 4:00 pm – Homegrown Cannabis. Please drop off at the Office.
Wednesday, Sept 10 – 10am to 3pm Hobbies & Crafts, including Juniors. At Mellor Hall
Thursday, Sept 11 – 10am to 5:30pm – 4-H, Eggs, Field Produce, Flowers, From the Kitchen, Fruit, Garden Produce, Honey, including Juniors. Back of Mellor Hall.
Entry Pickup: Sunday, September 14 from 4 to 6:30pm or during office hours (9:30am to 4pm) the following week (unclaimed entries may be donated or composted)
*Attention Exhibitors – If you purchased a 3-day Exhibitor pass online, please pick it up prior to Thursday September 11th.
NEW in Photography! Special thanks to our sponsor Cowichan Valley Voice
Division 22 – Section 4 – Class 26 – COWICHAN THEN & NOW
It’s time to poke through the old family photo album! Find a favourite image taken somewhere in the Cowichan Valley and recreate that scene today at the same site. Follow the rules below and submit both photos as a single entry in a special competition at this year’s Cowichan Exhibition.
PRIZES: 1st – $75, 2nd – $50, 3rd – $25
SPONSOR: Cowichan Valley Voice Magazine
Rules for “Then & Now”:
- Image can be a landscape or street view and can include people. The people in the ‘now’ photo can be the same individuals or others mimicking the ‘then’ poses.
- Size of photos: each one 5” x 7” or 7” x 5”.
- On a separate card, identify the location of the images. Include a short description of the ‘then’ photo, and if possible, its date.
- Presentation of entry: mount both photos and the card securely to an 11” x 14” or 14” x 11” black mat board or poster board. On the back of the mount, in the top left corner, print the class number (#22.4.29) and the exhibitor’s name.
- Entry fee: $1
- Registration deadline: by Sept. 3. Sign up online (www.cowex.ca) or in person any weekday at the Cowichan Exhibition Office, 7380 TransCanada Hwy.
- Deliver entry to the Exhibition Office by 4pm, Friday, Sept. 5.
Division 22 – Section 4 – Class 27- MEMORIES OF THE COWICHAN EXHIBITION
Have you been attending the Fair for eons? Do you have photos of those earlier visits? Share your memories plus one or more images in a special competition at this year’s Cowichan Exhibition.
PRIZES: 1st – $75, 2nd – $50, 3rd – $25
SPONSOR: Cowichan Valley Voice Magazine
Rules for “Memories”:
- Fair image can be a single shot (min. 5” x 7”) or a collage of several photos (max. 8” x 12”).
- On a separate card, tell us your Fair story.
- Presentation of entry: mount image and card securely to an 11” x 14” or 14” x 11” black mat board or poster board. On the back of the mount, in the top left corner, print the class number (#22.4.30) and the exhibitor’s name.
- Entry fee: $1
- Registration deadline: by Sept. 3. Sign up online (www.cowex.ca) or in person any weekday at the Cowichan Exhibition Office, 7380 TransCanada Hwy.
- Deliver entry to the Exhibition Office by 4pm, Friday, Sept. 5.
*please note that this section and classes were added after our Official Catalogue when to press*
NEW in From the Kitchen Special thanks to our sponsor Craig Street Brew Pub
Division 19 – Section 7 – Class 25 – CHICKEN WING CHALLENGE
Whip up your famous house-made sauce! Bring your sauce and the recipe to the Exhibition’s office before NOON on September 14th. Judging starts at 1 pm with Celebrity Chef Fatima De Saliva.
Prizes:
1st Prize: $100 Cash PLUS the winning sauce will be featured at the Craig Street Brew Pub for two weeks.
2nd Prize: $50 Cash.
3rd Prize: $50 Gift Certificate to the Craig Street Brew Pub.
*Please bring enough of your famous house-made sauce for 6 wings. Wings supplied and cooked by Craig Street Chef. The recipe may need to be modified to work in a restaurant environment.
*please note that this section and class was added after our Official Catalogue when to press*
DIVISION PAGES
4-H – Div. 10 – Club members may also enter their 4-H animals in the OPEN CLASSES, and must complete the regular Livestock entry form and pay the regular entry fee.
Cattle, Beef – Div. 6 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class.
Cattle, Dairy – Div. 7 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class
Creative Stitchery – Div. 25 – NEW! Class 30: Canadiana: any stitchery project incorporating Canadian motifs – see page 51
Eggs – Div. 12 – NEW! Class 6 – Duck Eggs and Class 8 -“Winged Wonders Egg Shell Mosaic – see page 28
Field Produce – Div. 13 – NEW! Class 8 – Market Produce Collection – Open to both amateur and professional gardeners – see page 29
Fine Arts – Div. 21 – NEW! Class 13 – Comics, Cartoons & Caricature – see page 43
Flowers – Div. 18 – NEW! Class 42 – Gladiolus – 1 stem, any colour – see page 38
From the Kitchen – Div. 19 – NEW! Class 2 – Bread, sourdough – see page 40
Fruit – Div. 15 – Theme Challenge Class 10 – “Orchard Leftovers” – see page 34
Garden Produce – Div. 14 – NEW! Class 72 – “Our Family Garden” – see page 32
Goats, Registered Dairy – Div. 5 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class
Hobbies & Crafts – Div. 23 – NEW! – Class 14 – Diamond Dotz of similar product – large, from kit or original design – see page 46
Homegrown Cannabis – Div. 17 NEW! Class 5 – “Hybrid, Grown Indoors” and Class 6 – “Hybrid, Grown Outdoors ” – see page 36
Honey – Div. 16 – NEW! Class 14 – “Superhero Buzz “,our favourite Winged Wonder and garden pollinator! – see page 35
Horses, Light – Div. 9 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class . * Stabling is free. But all stalls MUST be left clean otherwise a $25 cleaning fee will be deducted from prize money.
Horses, Miniature – Div. 8 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class. * Stabling is free. But all stalls MUST be left clean
Juniors (ages 5 to 17) – Div. 30 – NEW! – LEGO now has it own Section! – see page 65
Knitting & Crochet – Div. 26 – Theme Colour Challenge – knit a hat or toque with the flower design in at least 2 of this year’s colours – see page 54
Photography – Div. 22 – Special Division Award- London Drugs President’s Pick – three winners will be selected from all 1st place entries – see page 45
Quilts in the Barn – Div. 27 – Theme Challenge, Best of Show, Colour Challenge and People’s Choice Awards – see page 55
Div. 27 – NEW! – Troll Brothers Quilt Shop Most Entries by One Exhibitor entering both Div. 27 and 28, including Class 8 in Sewing – see page 55
Sewing – Div. 28 – NEW! – Troll Brothers Quilt Shop Most Entries by One Exhibitor entering both Div. 27 and 28, including Class 8 in Sewing – see page 55
Spinning, Weaving & Fibre Arts – Div. 24 – NEW! – “Make Do!’ re-use, up-cycle..dig into your stash to create a new project without purchasing more fibre or threads – see page 48
