Scarboro Fair

During the years the fair was active, Scarborough (then spelled Scarboro) was a small agricultural community.

[1][2] The fair was hosted by the Scarborough Agricultural Society, founded on January 1, 1844.

[1] The first fair was held on October 18, 1844 on the grounds of Joshua Sisley's Hotel, at Danforth Road and Eglinton Avenue.

[3][4] Sisley, apparently an agriculturalist himself, continued to host the fair in October in the years following; it later moved to taverns and hotels nearby.

A teenage commentator in the Farmer's Advocate, a London-based magazine that published until the mid-20th century,[7] had this rather dismissive assessment of the 1911 fair:It is only a small country fair, but it was largely attended this year, and there were nearly eight hundred people there.