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THE BRANDON SUN • WINTER FAIR • MARCH 2025
Above: Kids try their hand at using a lasso in the Westoba Place arena. (Courtesy the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba) Right: A young boy with a painted face and confetti in his hair leans on the stage during the Doodles the Clown show in 2024. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
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Learning will also stretch back in time. As the fair celebrates its 55th year being designated as Royal, his- tory is top-of-mind for organizers who planned events this year.
Sun that one of the focuses for his- tory will be photos. Organizers have planned to build an area with pho- tographs compiled to show how the arena used to look throughout the years leading up to mod- ern times.
The theme this year is history and education. Many details will em- phasize education at the Winter Fair
come late March, such as open access to the barn where competitors store their horses, trade shows and an interactive display from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon. “I’m extremely excited,” said operations manager Laing Breemersch. “I’m proud of the whole event and all the committees that put endless hours of volunteer time into each area of the Royal Man- itoba Winter Fair. (The
“We’re digging through our archives and our ar- tifacts,” said Swain. “We have a bunch of photos dating all the way back to the early 60s and 50s, and we’re going to pull that out and do a history wall, or a history lane.” While agriculture is arguably a huge part of the RMWF, it’s not hard to see that one of the Royal’s biggest draws for fairgoers is the wide variety of tasty
I f you’ve been to the fair (before), or this is your very first time, this is something that you have never seen. It’s going to be exciting.” Clint Swain, President
effort) to make it a staple event in Brandon and to bring communities and families together to learn what rural agriculture life is all about.”
treats available through dozens and dozens of food stalls found in the Royal Food Court and throughout the Keystone Centre.
Swain, who said he’s meeting roughly five hours a week with other organizers through March, told the
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