Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
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- Date Range
- [1919-2021]
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- The fonds is arranged into two series, Administrative and Fall Fair, and contains newspaper programs, prize lists, prize tickets, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, newspaper supplements, entry forms, certificate of incorporation and a brief history on the founding of the fair.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Other Title Info
- Title based on contents of fonds.
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Accession No.
- 1971.17
- 1978.5
- 1983.9
- 1983.65
- 1988.1
- 2007.3
- 1994.7
- 1994.13
- 2020.6
- 2020.12
- 2020.34
- 2022.1
- Physical Description
- 18 cm of textual record, 39 photographs
- Date Range
- [1919-2021]
- History / Biographical
- Talk of forming a Bulkley Valley Agricultural Association to oversee the planning of an exhibition began in 1910 (Interior News, May 1910). Various names were used before incorporation, such as: Bulkley Valley Agricultural Association (Interior News, July 27, 1912), Bulkley Valley Agricultural Association and Farmer’s Institute (Omineca Herald, June 7, 1913) and Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition Association (Interior News, June 21, 1919). On July 14, 1919, the Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association was incorporated under the Agricultural Act. The mandate of the Association was to "advance the interests of agriculture and to hold an annual exhibition of agricultural products at Smithers, and to do all such other things the directors may decide for the advancement of the association, the farmers and farming." The first directors of the Association included A. Kilpatrick (President, Smithers), J. G. Wood (Vice-President, Telkwa), and L.B. Warner (Secretary Treasurer, Smithers), George Oulton (Smithers), A. J. Prudhomme (Telkwa), E. C. Barger (Telkwa) and William S. Henry (Smithers) (Interior News, June 21, 1919). Smithers held its first Fall Fair in Albert Park, September 30th, 1919. After several years the Fair became a three-day event, presenting a wide variety of exhibits including agricultural displays, livestock and logging shows, handicraft and homemaking exhibits, stage shows, and a midway. The Fair continues to this day, having been held every year since 1919, except for 1932-1933, 1938-1945, 1950-1952. A virtual fair was held in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds is arranged into two series, Administrative and Fall Fair, and contains newspaper programs, prize lists, prize tickets, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, newspaper supplements, entry forms, certificate of incorporation and a brief history on the founding of the fair.
- Arrangement
- Records were rearranged in September 2016 by Manda Haligowski to better reflect archival standards and to improve accessibility.
- Subject Access
- Bulkley Valley Fall Fair
- Bulkley Valley Exhibition
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Bulkley Valley
- Type of Record
- Archival Description