1908 – Winter Fair Building, Brandon, Manitoba

This exhibition building was constructed in approximately 1907 and was opened in 1908. In addition to the Winter Fair, the building was used for various agricultural events, the Wheat City Carnival, and as a public skating rink. Following the Brandon Asylum fire in 1910, it was used as a temporary hospital until the asylum was rebuilt. During the First World War, the building became an internment camp used to house over seven hundred. Destroyed by fire in 1919.

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