Canadian National Exhibition

[JasonParis]

Does anyone know who's behind CKTL & Co – opening soon at 330 Bay Street.

CKTL & Co.

www.cktl.ca

Where are they getting this 'record' from?

In the 70s annual attendance was well over 3,000,000

Today's Ex is shorter by about a week which would cause one to expect lower attendance; still, even if you expanded this year's number by 50% you don't get anywhere near the numbers in the 70s.

Largest Crowd This Year, so far - 275,500 - at the CNE yesterday, brought total attendance to 3,344,500, with one day to go. And this aerial photo of (...)

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The CNE was historically a 20-day fair. It was chopped to 18 days maybe a decade back.

 

[Northern Light]

The CNE was historically a 20-day fair. It was chopped to 18 days maybe a decade back.

Good info; still doesn't equate with 1.6M being record attendance though; when we know the actual record is well over 3M.