About Us

On the eighteenth day of February, 1895, the Kamloops Agricultural Association was incorporated as an agricultural society under the "BC Agricultural and Horticultural Societies Act." And on the fifth day of December, 1931, the name of the said Kamloops Agricultural Association was changed to Kamloops Exhibition Association.

Creation of the Association

Reginald Hook, Norman Ferriere, Ernest Tratch, Athole Black, George Sheline, Robert Burns, Neil MacDonald, Marvin Johnson, Alfred E. Perry, Malcolm Grant, and Morrison Cranston, and the several other persons, firms, and corporations entered on the register of members of the Kamloops Exhibition Association, 1895, on the date of the coming into force of this Act, together with such other persons as shall hereafter become members thereof, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, without share capital, under the name of "Kamloops Exhibition Association," capable forthwith of exercising all the functions of a corporation, and having perpetual succession and a common seal, with the powers mentioned in this Act.

Association Objective

The objects of the Association are, without profit or gain, to encourage, assist, and promote the welfare of the agricultural and other industries of the country and other matters and things having a national, civic, agricultural, educational, artistic, social, recreational, or sporting character, and any other object, useful or beneficial to the people generally, and to provide facilities for the same.

Over the Years

The KXA has been a back bone of the Kamloops Agriculture Community since 1895. In 1939, the Association in conjunction with livestock associations,  drew the cancelled Vancouver BC Winter Fair to Kamloops during WWII. The Christmas Fat Stock Show & Sale came into being on December 4, 1939 at the Kamloops Stockyards. The Show then moved to the BC Beef Cattle Growers Yards on Lorne street. The Fat Stock Show & Sale changed its name in 1961 and became the Provincial Winter Fair. The fair then moved locations in 1970 to the Mount Paul Agri-Plex grounds that the KXA and City of Kamloops Partnered with until the early 2000s.

The KXA and the Mount Paul Grounds hosted several types of events including Interior Horse Racing, Rodeos, Kamloops Bull Sale, 4-H District Judging Rally, Concerts, Mud Bogs, Monster Trucks, Mountie Stomp, Hunter Jumper Shows, Home Shows, Craft Fairs, Boat and RV Shows, Dry Grads, Barrel Racing Events, the former 1990's Kamloops Cattle Drive, Spoolmak Days, and much more. The KXA held events on the Mount Paul grounds until 2009 and are continuing to pursue a permanent location for a future Interior Agriculture Complex.

Check out this 1970 Kamloops Article on the Origins of the Kamloops Exhibition Association