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ONTARIO Port Perry 1886 Central Agricultural & Live Stock Association 38.5mm white metal medal 23.32 grams, by P. W. Ellis Toronto Leroux 1471, Charlton EONA-63
A scarcer medal that I have only seen offered three times in the last ten years, twice through public auction and an example on eBay. The obverse portrait of Miss Canada has been described as less than flattering, but I would suggest more pleasing and innocent than the 2013 or 2018 Royal Canadian Mint NCLT renditions. It has the Canadiana appeal of Leroux 1159 Montreal Winter Carnival with its toboggan scene also by P. W. Ellis, and that of many of the whimsical Thomas Church series.
