Canadian exhibits of wheat and other grains were mounted at American fairs, large and small. The sound of Scottish bagpipes filled the large Canadian exhibit space when the Kiltie Band from Belleville, Ontario performed in the Canadian hall at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit, 1914.

A country fair in Illinois. These two photographs are undated, but one placard in the Canadian booth suggests 1915 or 1916. The placard states NO WAR TAX ON LAND IN CANADA, referring to the First World War which Canada had entered in 1914. Clearly Sir Robert Borden's government was still actively recruiting American immigrants to western Canada. Between 1914 and 1918, some 230,000 settlers left the United States for Canada.