Friday marks the kickoff of this year's Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), thought of as the biggest, best and most legendary festival in all of Canada. That title belongs to a far lesser-known fair well outside Toronto in historic Williamstown, Ontario. But, it is home to a handful of sites well worthy of visiting, especially for history buffs — including the eponymous grounds where the Williamstown Fair takes place each August. As the local Cornall Community Museum wrote in 2020, "for 209 years, neither weather, nor war, nor pandemic has prevented the Williamstown Fair from opening the gates of the fairgrounds to the public for Canada's longest-running agricultural fair." Although this year's Williamstown Fair already took place earlier this month, you can add next year's to your calendar.