The Show has welcomed over one million visitors since moving to Canterbury Agricultural Park in 1997.

The Show attracts on average 100,000 people, over 5000 livestock and features competition entries and over 600 trade exhibitors.

The first Agricultural and Pastoral Show in Christchurch was held in a paddock north of Latimer Square on 22 October 1862.

[1] The Canterbury A&P Association was formed a few weeks later on 23 January 1863, with Robert Wilkin as its first president.

[1] In April 1863, the A&P Association purchased 14 acres (5.7 ha) in Colombo Street South for show grounds; this is now Sydenham Park.