Fair History
The earliest recorded Fair held in Markham was in 1857 at the fairgrounds then located on the South East corner of the junction of Highways 7 and 48.
In 1977 the Fair relocated to its current site where the four day fair is held annually on the weekend preceding Canadian Thanksgiving.
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