Like generations of attendees across three centuries and as much as a child as an adult, going to the CNE with my family is a straightforwardly happy end-of-summer rite of passage
in Winnipeg. The rise of these annual exhibitions in Canada, consistent with their spread across the United States, became public occasions for proffering a mixture of entertainment and education.
To be sure, at various stages in its history the CNE was far from immune from the pressures of the larger world and indeed could be directive in response.
It makes sense that particular historical moments exert pressure on events like the CNE, which generates this kind of attention because of its singularity in 2023, while continuing to resist total capitulation to either hermetically sealed nostalgia or overly reactive attentiveness to the news cycle. That’s both made possible and necessary by the nature of who goes to the Ex: 1.5 million people, and it’s hard not to imagine the same, if not more, this year.
That’s because in place of it, there’s spontaneous conversations during long lineups for the gondola, and easily asked-for-and-given reviews of massive corn on the cob and barbecued turkey legs; there’s joining the crowd in cheering someone on a hot streak at one of the game booths, and making space for others with the tight seating for the musical and acrobatic and four-legged performances; there’s inspecting sweet pink families of pigs in close quarters and visiting prized cows whose dramatic...
You’re just there, at the CNE, having a good time with everyone else, and you’re doing it like everyone else. Yes, that’s right, you’re like everyone else, and you like being like everyone else, and you actually like everyone else, at least for a few fun hours at the Ex, come summer’s end.
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