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This plaque commemorates the establishment of the Exhibition (the “Ex”), a national event that has occurred since 1912.

Ontario was a mineral-rich province that offered many strategic resources for military production. It also had a large population. According to the 1941 census, Ontario had 3.8 million residents, of which 62 per cent lived in urban areas. The combination of Ontario’s large population and mineral-rich land made it an ideal industrial hub for war production.

Built in 1890, the Proulx Cheese Factory is one of the few remaining buildings of its kind in Ontario. It reflects the importance of locally run rural enterprises to the province’s agricultural development and the central role that cheesemaking had in the region ...