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The Saskatoon Ex will be returning to the Bridge City for its 136th year in 2021.
That’s according to Prairieland Park’s marketing manager, Kristy Rempel.
“We are definitely moving forward with some version of the Ex. We just don’t know exactly what that’s going to look like. There are a lot of factors that have to be played in,” she said.
Those factors include if the company that does the rides for the Ex will be able to get into Canada, along with if it will have a route of other fairs in Canada.
“We’re working with other fairs to figure out dates and routing and entertainment, and a bunch of other pieces,” she explained.
Rempel said looking to retool the Ex has been a fun exercise.
“We’ve been a little dark over at Prairieland for the last year or more,” she said. “All of us are super-excited to get back to work and to planning events, to get all of those casual and part-time staff back to work, and just to get what is normally such a vibrant space back to normal again.”
The cancellation in 2020 due to COVID-19 was, at the time, the first in the Saskatoon Ex’s 135-year history.
In an interview with 650 CKOM on May 11, 2020, Rempel explained organizers have only had to shorten the fair once in its history due to weather, but nothing has been able to completely derail the event until COVID-19.
“The Exhibition, way back when, was started to sort of prove that the temperance colony of Saskatoon was ready to become a full-fledged city. It showed the economic and agricultural viability of the area, and it’s been going on every single year since,” she said.
The Ex typically runs on the second weekend in August.