User:Zanimum/List of people who have opened the Canadian National Exhibition


 * 1882: Oliver Mowat, Premier of Ontario
 * 1889: John A. Macdonald
 * 1896: A. S. Hardy, Premier of Ontario
 * 1900: George W. Ross, Premier of Ontario
 * 1901: Wilfred Laurier
 * 1913: Robert Borden
 * 1905: James Whitney, Premier of Ontario
 * 1917: Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, Governor-General of Canada
 * 1918: Thomas Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway
 * 1919: The Prince of Wales, who would later ascend to the position of King Edward VIII; the tour of Canada also included the opening of the Canadian Parliament Buildings
 * 1920: Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes, the British Ambassador to the United States
 * 1925: Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario
 * 1927: William Lyon Mackenzie King
 * 1932: R. B. Bennett
 * 1947: William Lyon Mackenzie King
 * 1952: Governor-General Vincent Massey
 * 1953: Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
 * 1954: Duchess of Kent, the first woman to open the ceremonies
 * 1956: Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Minister of External Affairs
 * 1957: Louis Orville Breithaupt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
 * 1958: John G. Diefenbaker
 * 1963: Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * 1965: Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada
 * 1969: Pierre Elliott Trudeau
 * 1970: Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, for the 25th anniversary of the Liberation of Holland
 * 1974: Gordon Sinclair, broadcaster
 * 1975: Gordon Sinclair
 * 1976: Bob Hope
 * 1984: Marilyn Bell, swimmer