Expo Québec
annual exposition in Quebec City
Expo Québec was an annual fair that took place in Quebec City in mid to late August from 1897 to 2015.
History
The first exposition began in 1854, the first full exhibition began after the establishment of the Québec City Provincial Exhibition Company in 1892.
The exposition site, now referred to as ExpoCité, had including a 1,000-seat stadium, racetrack and mostly agricultural theme. In 1913 a midway and roller coaster was added making it common with most modern fall fairs.
Demise
In early 2016 the City of Quebec announced that Expo Québec would not return in 2016 and the site next to Videotron Centre (once the race track site) would be re-developed mirroring the collapse of the Ottawa SuperEX in Ottawa, Ontario in 2011. The former Colisée Pepsi closed in 2015 and is also expected to be demolished.
See also
Other remaining expositions in Quebec include:
Expo agricole de La Matapédia - Bas-Saint-Laurent
Exposition Agricole de Beauce - Chaudière-Appalaches
Huntingdon Fair - Montérégie
Ayer's Cliff Fair - Estrie
Exposition agricole régionale d'Abitibi - Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Expo Richmond Fair - Cleveland Richmond/Estrie
References
External links
"ExpoCité".
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Expo Québec” as annual exposition in Quebec City. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as annual exposition in Quebec City. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3062196. VIAF identifies the subject as 2273148149512396930006. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1897, 2015, 1854 and 1892.
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