5 WAY CARNIVAL
MAY 12 TO MAY 22, 2016
HANMER SHOPPING MALL MIDWAY
RIDE SPECIALS: Ride all day bracelet
in advance $25.00
on the grounds $35.00
FREE RIDES ON GDREATER SUDBURY TRANSIT FROM SUDBURY TO HANMER WITH ADVANCE VOUCHER & RETURN FREE WITH BRACELET
VOUCHERS AVAILABLE AT: Bright Spot Cleaners (Val Caron), Carrefour francophone, Place Bonaventure-Chelmsford Mall Kiosk, Forget Mini Mart, Glori’s Restaurant, Hanmer Valley Shopping Centre Kiosk, Jarrett Value Centre, Jett-Landry Music, Kwik Way (Val Caron), Lagace Confectionary, Foodland (Capreol), Vrabs Independent Grocers, Mels Backyard (Sears Hanmer Shopping Centre)
SPONSORD BY: LIONS CLUB OF SUDBURY, MINNOW LAKE LIONS CLUB, CARREFOUR FRANCOPHONE DE SUDBURY, KIWANIS CLUB OF SUDBURY SERVICES & SUDBURY DEVELOPMENTAL.
ALL PROCEEDS RETURN BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY OF THE GREATER SUDBURY.
COME OUT AND HAVE FUN
World’s Finest Shows began in 1986 as a division of Conklin Shows, along with Supershows and the Bicycle Unit. In 1992, the division split off into its own company with Barry Jamieson becoming the president. The newly formed company bought out the assets and contracts of the Conklin eastern road show. The show remained based in Simcoe, Ontario with the barns at the fairgrounds used for storage and a workshop in the winter months. Needing a workshop for the company, they purchased a vacant workshop in Nanticoke, Ontario, which has been home to the show ever since. In 1997, World’s Finest Shows won the contract for the Central Canada Exhibition in Ottawa (Commonly known as the Ottawa SuperEx).[1]
When World’s Finest Shows began, it had three units. It had the Trillium Unit, Talbot Unit, and the Supershow. The Supershow was a 10-ride rental service that lasted until mid-2002, when it was purchased by Dave and Jimmy Kong and turned into a full-time show. The Trillium Unit acts as the show’s main unit, hosting the show’s best equipment. The Talbot Unit is a smaller unit, that mostly consists of small, easy to set up rides for smaller events.
Throughout 2006 and 2007, World’s Finest Shows sold many of their older rides to help pay off Canada’s first Venetian Swing Carousel manufactured by Bertazzon, as well as to purchase three other rides: Fireball, Haunted Mansion, and Monkey Maze. The Venetian Swing Carousel, renamed “Wave Swinger,” was first seen at the 2007 Central Canada Exhibition in Ottawa.
In August 2010, World’s Finest Shows had qualified as a certified member of the OABA Circle of Excellence, the only midway provider in Canada to be awarded this designation.[2]
After the cancellation of the Central Canada Exhibition in 2011, the company began to downsize to save money. In 2011, they sold their iconic Mack “Polar Express” for a smaller “Musik Express” model manufactured by Majestic Manufacturing. 2011 also saw the selling of their smaller ferris wheel, and Zamperla “Circus Train”. They continued to downsize throughout the next few years, selling off their “Monkey Maze” funhouse, Chance “Zipper“, their Bertazzon “Wave Swinger” Swing Carousel, and their old Sellner “Tilt-A-Whirl“.