Online Registration is now closed. Please visit the Exhibition Office for registration for late entry.
NOW AVAILABLE!! Hardcopies of the 2025 Cowichan Exhibition Official Catalogue are now available from the Exhibition office, Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm. See below for the online version.
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
