Textual Records

Extent: c. 1000 cubic feet, Outside Dates: 1879-present

The textual holdings of Records & Archives includes all records created by the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place, the Canadian National Exhibition Association (CNEA) prior to 2013, and the Canadian International Air Show (CIAS) prior to 1993. The archival records are those that possess long-term administrative, fiscal or legal value.

Also housed as part of the Records Management Program, is another 3000 cubic feet of inactive business records.

Types of archival textual records held by Records & Archives include minutes of meetings of the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place; the Board of Directors of the CNEA; the WDPC; and of various committees formed by the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place and the CNEA.

Other records in this category include: Annual Reports, Programmes, Prize Lists, special brochures, and (CIAS) Programs.

Corporate records from various Exhibition Place/CNE departments include: Office of the Chief General Manager (1929-1987), CNE Agricultural Department (1934-1982), CNE Women’s Department (1920-1980), Exhibition Place Works Department (1879-1987), Exhibition Stadium Corporation (1946-1987), Exhibition Place General Manager of Administration & Corporate Secretary (1919-1987) and the CNE Sports Department (1879-1981).

Collections of records acquired from members of the public include the papers of Peg Willins-Hughes, wife of long-time CNE General Manager, Elwood Hughes.