Join us for a "country fair" tractor pull at the Bruderheim fairground site. The event will include chariot racing, pony chuckwagon racing, family fun events, displays, and a midway with rides and concessions. Details are still being worked out, and will be posted here when available.
Bill and Isa Dixon invite and welcome you to the Yoho Museum open house on the last Sunday in May. You will be able to see and hear the history of the Peers area, for many contributors and local residents will be there to tell the stories behind the pioneer artifacts on display. The event is free, friendly and relaxed.
The museum's collection of more than 100 tractors includes a Rumley Oil Pull, a 1914 Lanz Bulldog, a 1923 Case (crossmount engine), and a 1914 Cletrac crawler just to name a few. Also on display are about forty stationary gas engines, and the car collection has grown quite a bit in recent years - the 1915 Model T Ford is a crowd favourite.
To reach the museum travel 10 km. north of Peers on Hiway 32 to Township Rd. 554, then half a mile east. A pancake breakfast is served between 9 and 11 AM at the Fullham School, three quarters of a mile north of the museum sign on Highway 32.
Join us as more than a hundred old tractors and antique farm machines gather at the Westlock Fair Grounds. Come for the pancake breakfast (8 to 10 AM) and stay for slow racing, antique tractor pulling, threshing, dynometer testing, and barrel racing. Tractor Pulling runs morning (lightweights) and afternoon (heavyweights), and there is a Parade from 2 to 3 in the afternoon as well. The feature make this year is Minneapolis Moline tractors and equipment, but all makes of tractor are very welcome. We're hoping the 1916 Rumely steam engine will be joined this year by an eighty horse Case steamer, and we may have a sawmill up and running! The Tractor Museum is open noon to 6PM and handicraft displays and a bench show run each day. And here's a heads-up for next year -- the feature make will be Oliver and Hart-Parr, so you have time to restore that old Hart-Parr or Oliver you may have stashed behind the shop.
Admission is $8 and includes a free pancake breakfast and admission to the Museum. Children 12 and under get in free. The grounds open Friday night for exhibitors - all exhibitors welcome!
The First Alberta Two Cylinder Club of Olds invites tractors of any make and color to join them at the Olds Antique Tractor Days. It will be held at the Olds College this year, 2 miles west of the Olds overpass on the QE2 highway then half a mile south. The fun begins at noon on Saturday with a parade of all tractors and show-and-shine units. Tractor pulls and slow races are next. Sunday repeats the previous day's events, concluding with slow race finals and the presentation of trophies and awards for the show and shine, tractor pulls and slow races.
Camping is free. Admission to the fair is $5.00 per person for the weekend. Contestants are required to have their own personal liability insurance on their tractors.
Enjoy Father's day weekend with us at the Lacombe Agricultural Society grounds (just follow the signs) for tractor pulls and parades, demonstrations and exhibits. Saturday starts off with a pancake breakfast from 7:30 to 10:30 AM and ends with a supper at 6 PM. Sunday's breakfast runs from 8 to 10 AM. Displays are open both days from 10 AM to 5 PM and the Parade of Power - 80+ tractors! - starts at 1 PM. The White line is featured this year -- Hart-Parr, Oliver, Minneapolis and Cockshutt -- but all exhibitors are welcome. Binding, baling, threshing, plowing and sawmilling demonstrations run during the afternoon, as does antique tractor pulling. Other attractions include model and stationary engine displays, a carshow and a toy show for the kids. There will be 30+ sales tables offering crafts, parts and much more as well. Admission is $5 per day; all exhibitors welcome. Camping on the grounds is free (no hookups). Show goes rain or shine!
The Markerville Vintage Machinery Club welcomes you to their 20th anniversary, celebrating pioneer life with threshing, field displays, tractor pulls, slow races, a tractor parade and pioneer crafts, including blacksmithing. Sunday morning there's a Pancake Breakfast between 7:30 and 11:00.
Do you play an instrument? Bring it along and join the Saturday night jam session around the campfire. Admission is $5 for the weekend, and camping on the grounds is $10 a night. It's all happening at the ball diamond in Markerville, 11AM to 6PM Saturday and 11AM to 5PM Sunday.
Spend Canada Day with us at the Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre on Hiway 16 east in Lloydminster! Have a look at our beautifully restored antique tractors and stationary engines or bring your own for others to admire. Take in the parade (1 P.M.) and help out at the threshing and baling demonstrations. A blacksmith, lathe operator, rope-maker, weaver, spinner and baker will each be there, practicing their trades. Plans are not yet finalized but we hope to have slow races.
For kids of all ages there are children's races, pony rides and a performance by Hot Doggers, where dogs and their owners show off their training, agility and skill at fly ball. A pancake breakfast runs from 8 A.M. to 11 A.M. and a collectables show and sale is on all day. Camping is available on the grounds and all exhibitors are welcome.
Come cheer on the antique tractors in the Blackie Antique Tractor Pull! You'll find them in the midst of the town's Canada Day celebrations, near the Pioneer grain elevator alongside Blackie's main street. Weigh-in takes place between 10 AM and 12 PM, with pulling starting at 12 PM. Don't be afraid to come early though, and check out the rest of the Canada Day activities - there's a parade, a live band, crafts, a rock climbing wall, beer garden and much more.
The Parade begins at 10 AM and tractors are welcome to take part(line-up is between 8:30 and 9:00 AM). If you would like to be in the parade, give Dan Seward a call at the above phone numbers. Camping is available in the area.
Its the 22nd annual Delburne Antique Tractor Pull this Canada Day, with ball games, races, a pancake breakfast, a parade and, of course, the TRACTOR PULL. The pull starts at 1PM at the Recreation Grounds by the Arena. Weight in is at 11:30AM and the entry fee is $10 per tractor. Camping on the grounds is free. Come cheer on these venerable machines and their operators!
Come one, come all! The Edgerton and District Historical Society invites you to their tractor fair at the Museum grounds on the west side of Highway 14 in Edgerton. Camping is available south of the museum. The fair runs from 10 AM to 5 PM each day - admission is $6 a day or $12 for the weekend.
ON DISPLAY: A real variety of tractors will be on display, including a cross-mount Case, a Hart-Parr 30, two Hart-Parr 18-36s, a Waterloo Boy, a cross-mount Minneapolis Moline, a 10-20 Titan and a 1943 International Hi-Crop tractor. For stationary engine fans there's a 1910 12 HP Fairbanks-Morse.
EVENTS: Come cheer on the competitors in the tractor pulls and slow races, and bring your tractor to show it off -- everyone who brings a tractor will receive an Edgerton Tractor Show T-shirt! Other attractions at the grounds include chariot and chuckwagon races, baseball and a number of agricultural displays. A steak fry and Beerfest will be held Saturday evening in conjunction with Edgerton's Sports Day and Agricultural Fair.
This invitational tractor pull and show and shine takes place on the Calgary Stampede Grounds. Check out the Calgary Stampede agricultural website for the rules, weight classes, scheduling and applications to participate:
"If you have an interesting piece of farming history and would like to share it with the public for an evening on July 4th at the 2009 Calgary Stampede please contact Kelly Chambers at 261-0309 for an application or download the one listed ..." Calgary Stampede Agriculture website
Then come and watch as these beautifully restored vintage tractors do what they do best!
Join us at the green elevator in Three Hills about noon for the weigh in then follow the parade of tractors to the track at the southwest end of town. Pulling should begin about 1PM, with classes from Featherweight to Class 5. There will be a small hook up fee for each tractor, and camping is free for competitors. After the pull is a potluck beef barbecue - we'll supply the barbecued beef and the refreshments. Spectators are welcome to take in the Three Hills Summerfest celebrations as well, including ball games, concessions and a parade in town at 10AM.
Lac La Biche Antique Society is hosting an Antique Tractor Show and Pull in conjunction with Lakeland County Fair Days at the Arthur and Anita Cadieux Agricultural Grounds near Lac La Biche. Tractors will be categorized by weight, and the pull will be sanctioned. There will also be craft demonstrations, antique displays and a swap meet.
Held at the South Peace Centennial Museum, 2 km. north of Beaverlodge on Hiway 2, 10 AM to 6 PM on the third Sunday in July. There is ample parking with camping available on the grounds (no hookups). Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children 7 to 15 and children 6 and under are free.
EVENTS: On Sunday there's a parade of antique gas and diesel tractors, steam engines and antique cars and trucks. Steam engines will drive a sawmill, a planer mill and the largest of the museum's threshing machines. On both Saturday and Sunday there will be plowing with antique tractors and the shingle mill will be in operation.
A pancake breakfast will be served each day from 8:00 to 10:00 AM. Church services will be held at 11:00 AM Sunday. Stop by the stage for live music throughout each day. The Peace Country Oprey will be there and square dancers will keep the dance floor jumping all day.
THE MUSEUM: Stroll through historic buildings - school, store, dancehall, church - and admire the permanent collections of antique cars and farm machinery. Try bread baked in our clay oven while you watch the grist mill grinding the flour for the next loaf. Stop by the smithy to watch the blacksmith demonstrate his skills; observe soap and butter making, rope making, wool carding and lard rendering demonstrations.
STEAM: For lovers of steam power we have the largest permanent collection of operating steam engines in Alberta (7 in all), including a 120 HP Rumley and the only known Waterloo in operation.
Chapter 38, western Canada’s largest IHC chapter invites you to their all Interational Harvester show, with International Harvester tractors, trucks, engines, equipment, literature, and toys. It will be held in Lacombe at the Lacombe Agricultural Society grounds. For further information check out the chapter's website.
The Vermillion Agricultural Society invites you to join in the fun at the Antique Tractor pull, held each year in conjunction with the Vermillion fair. Tractors will take to the track at 3 PM to compete in seven weight classes (competitors are asked to please be there by 2 PM). Tractors built in 1960 or earlier are eligible. Serial numbers will be checked and competitors are asked to bring a weigh bill for each tractor. There is no entry fee for the pull.
The fair is held at the Vermillion Agricultural Society grounds on the north side of Lakeland College. Admission to the fair is $5 for the whole day. Camping is available at the Provincial campground but it fills up fast, often several days in advance, so get there early!
So much is happening! There's a pancake breakfast Saturday and Sunday mornings from 7:00 to 10 AM, then events and demonstrations run to 5:30 PM. There will be a pit roast beef and buffalo supper from 4:00 to 7:00 PM on Saturday. Join us for a non-denominational church service Sunday morning. The fair grounds are located 5 km. west of Leduc on Hiway 39 and 1 km north on Range Road #260. The entrance fee is $10.00 per day, but exhibitors get in free. All exhibitors are welcome, but each exhibitor MUST provide his or her own liability insurance in the amount of $1,000,000. All exhibitors must sign the vehicle registration form. Overnite camping is $10.00 for the whole weekend.
EVENTS: Vintage farm equipment will be featured this year! Watch as the tractors, cars, trucks and steamers parade past the grandstand. Take in threshing, plowing and sawmill demonstrations, then cheer on the contestants in the tractor pulls and slow races. The tractor pulls have proven so popular that they run both morning and afternoon, and the square dancing tractors will do two shows a day! Stroll through the market's 30 tables of antiques and crafts. It's a real family outing, with Kid's Tractor Pulls and a petting zoo!
VINTAGE MACHINES: More than 150 tractors of every size and description are expected. Antique and classic vehicles will be on display along with stationary engines, old construction equipment and a steam engine or two. Don't miss this one!
Join us at the Heritage Acres Museum for binding, plowing, and threshing with steam and horses. You'll see a steam-powered saw-mill, a horse powered well-drilling outfit and a horse powered stationary square baler. Each afternoon there's a parade of power, tractor pull and field demonstrations. Antique cars and farm trucks are featured, including a large collection of REO cars. Something new this year - miniature horses! Each day begins with a FREE pancake breakfast, 7 to 9 AM, and Saturday finishes up with a supper and evening entertainment. Sunday attend non-denominational church services in the Knox Presbyterian Church of Jumbo Valley.
To get there, travel 2 miles north of Pincher Creek to Pincher Station, 2 miles east on Hiway #3 then 8 miles north on Hiway #785 to Heritage Acres. Admission is $10 each or $25 for a family, and camping is $10 a night, no hook-ups. All exhibitors are welcome!
THE MUSEUM: The musem is open from May 1st to September 30th and features:
The Leslieville Central Alberta Antique and Model Club has it all for you! There will be antique tractors, antique cars, parades, slow races, tractor pulls, threshing and lumber sawing. Watch demonstrations of butter churning, breadmaking and spinning. Check out the expanded flea market and agricultural displays. Ride the Royal Scott Steam Train!
There will be a dinner at the hall on Saturday followed by a Fiddler's Jamboree. Saturday and Sunday the Club serves breakfast between 8:00 and 10:00 AM. On Sunday morning you are invited to attend an outdoor church service. Admission is $5 per person or $15 per family (children under 12 are free). Located 2 miles east and half a mile south of Leslieville.
Everyone is welcome at the Manning Heritage Day Celebration, 1 km east of Manning on highway #691! About 55 tractors of all makes and models will be on display and on parade. We also expect to see some caterpillar tractors and stationary engines, too.
The day kicks off with a pancake breakfast from 9:00 - 11:30, and there is an interdenominational church service at 11AM. The threshing goes at 12:00 noon and other demonstrations, including baling straw, shingle mill edger, log planing and rope making, take place throughout the day. A food booth will be open all day, and admission is by donation. Hope to see you there!
The Pioneer Acres Museum in Irricana brings you Alberta's largest tractor fair - approximately 200 tractors will be on display. Stationary engines, antique cars and trucks, scale models and steam engines will also be well represented. Case is the featured makes this year! The museum is 1/2 mile north of Irricana on Highway 9 and 1/2 a mile west. Daily admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children 13 to 18 years of age and free for children 12 and under. Camping is available (no hookups) for $20 for the weekend with a free shuttle to and from the show gate.
EVENTS: Come for the Parade of Power, the tractor pulls, tractor barrel races and slow races, as well as for the traditional activities of threshing, plowing and cutting grain with binders. There are also craft exhibits, a trade fair, bread baking and blacksmith and wheelwright demonstrations. The show runs each day from 9 AM to 5 PM. A Pancake Breakfast is available Friday 8 to 10 AM, Saturday & Sunday, 7 to 10 AM. There will be a steak supper on both the Friday and Saturday night at 5:30 pm. Sunday at 9:30 AM an interdenominational church service will be held.
The Prairie Tractor Club invites you to join them for a great weekend at the Picture Butte Museum, 1 mile south of Picture Butte off Secondary Highway #519. There's a Parade of Power, tractor and heavy horse pulls and a threshing demonstration. Walk through the 60 or so old tractors on display and watch rope making and sheep shearing demonstrations, then check out the museum and the historical village.
The museum is a new building filled with displays of yesteryear. The historic village boasts a train station, blacksmith shop, post office, school, church, garage and period houses. Dont't miss the Finnegan Ferry - it spent it's working life on the Red Deer River near Gem, the last wooden ferry to operate in Alberta. Now it makes it's home here, the only such ferry in a museum.
Join us at Sunnybrook Farm Museum in Red Deer for Tractor Pulls and a Parade of Power featuring tractors dating back to the 1920's. Please phone us to add your tractor to the competition, or just come and cheer the competitors on.
You'll also see demonstrations of threshing, wood splitting and blacksmithing, along with displays of stationary engines, antique equipment and homestead crafts such as butter churning, ice cream and bannock making. We have invited a local antique car club and hope to include an antique toy show - watch our website for further developments!
Each activity packed day begins at 8:00 AM and ends at 4:00 PM. Admission is only $5 per person or $10 per family. A hearty farmers breakfast is available each morning and a full concession and teahouse will be open all day. Their specialty - home baked pies!
Find us in the heart of Red Deer at 4701 30th Street - just 2 blocks east of The Black Knight Inn. Hope to see you!
The tractors will be digging deep and pulling hard at the Didsbury Ag Society Rodeo Grounds, 1 mile north and half a mile west of Didsbury. Weigh in is expected to run from 9AM to 11Am, with pulling tentatively scheduled to begin at noon. The entry fee is $10 per registrant (this may increase once details are worked out); competitors may enter an unlimited number of tractors. Camping is free, concessions will be open and the 4H rodeo will be on next door for family members who like a little variety. Everyone is welcome!
The Harvest Fair takes place at Fort Edmonton Park, a place steeped in history. See threshing with steam, antique farm equipment in operation, heavy horse pulls and horse-and-buggy demonstrations. Most of all it's a family event, with activities for the kids, a craft market, lively music, authentic period buildings, vintage streetcars and a steam train. The fair runs from 10 AM to 6 PM.
The Strathcona Vintage Tractor Association is having its 5th Annual Antique Tractor Pull near Ardrossan. The exact location will be announced soon - check back here for updates or go to the SVTA website.
Last year we had 110 tractors competing in classes from 2500 lbs. to 12,000 lbs. We have a drive-on electronic scale for weight classes. Tractors must be 1960 and older to compete, and all competitors are welcome. A dyno will be on site to check the horsepower of your tractor.
There are activities for all members of the family, with horse and wagon rides, a silent auction, lots of prizes, plus various old time demonstrations.
The Reynolds-Alberta Museum's collection of steam engines, farm machinery and old tractors takes to the fields! Watch threshing, stooking, plowing and baling demonstrations on the museum grounds. New this year is a tractor starting and steering demonstration featuring about twenty different vintage tractors.
Inside the museum join our volunteers as they try out new recipes for home made bread, then wander through the local Farmer's Market or check out different children's crafts and activities. Be sure to take in the rare and beautifully restored exhibits in the Museum's main hall and restoration shop. It all happens Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 6 PM. Excellent accomodations are available in Wetaskiwin.
Come help with the harvest at the Leduc West fair grounds, 5 km. west of Leduc on Hiway 39. Starting at 9 AM we'll be threshing, binding, stooking, plowing, and everyone is invited to participate. Don't miss the tractor pulls! There's the provincial championship tractor pull-off in which first and second place tractors from events around the province compete, then the kiddie's pedal tractor pull where the enthusiasm and energy of the next generation shines through. Admission is $3 for adults, children under 12 are free. Come and enjoy the history.
Join us at Sunnybrook Farm Museum in Red Deer for our Annual Pioneer Days Celebration! The emphasis is on the old homestead with demonstrations of bannock making, butter churning, ice cream making and old fashioned crafts. You'll see threshing, wood splitting and blacksmithing, along with displays of stationary engines and of course, lots of tractors! We hope to have draft horses and oxen this year - watch our website for more information!
Each activity packed day begins at 8:00 AM and ends at 4:00 PM. Admission is only $5 per person or $10 per family. A hearty farmers breakfast is available each morning and a full concession and teahouse will be open all day. Their specialty - home baked pies!
Find us in the heart of Red Deer at 4701 30th Street - just 2 blocks east of The Black Knight Inn. Hope to see you!
The Camrose Museum comes alive! 15 antique tractors, an 80 horsepower
Case steamer and numerous old trucks and farm implements will be hard at
work threshing grain, sawing and splitting wood and more. Watch ropemaking
and handicraft demonstrations; visit the church, the school and the homes
of a bygone era. Located on the Camrose museum grounds right downtown in
Camrose, the fair runs Sunday from 1 to 5 PM. All exhibitors welcome!
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