Ottawa SuperEX fair suspended for 2011

This year's SuperEX event has been cancelled, marking the first time there will be no exhibition at Ottawa's Lansdowne Park since the world wars. 

The Central Canada Exhibition Association's board of directors made the decision to suspend the fair — which was first held in 1888 — last week, citing Lansdowne's redevelopment as the main reason.

The CCEA deemed other suitable sites too expensive to use.

Board member Colin McSweeney said the CCEA was hoping it could hold the event on a site near Albion Road, in Ottawa's south end, but that would not have the necessities in place by August.

"The problem is there is that the infrastructure is not there yet — water, sewer, electric. It would make it very difficult to hold any type of fair there without that type of infrastructure in place," McSweeney said.

Organizers are hoping a new home for the event will be ready by 2012.