ABOUT Flamboro Antique Shows

As with many new trends and styles, Canada follows America, which takes its lead from California and Europe. Antiquing is no exception. In the 1950's and 1960's antique markets sprung up in several European countries providing dealers and the public a place for buying and selling. Bill Hogan, one of Flamboro's founders, saw these giant antique markets in 1969, while travelling in California. The eastern version was finally popularized in Brimfield, Massachusetts in the late 1970's. Canada's Flamboro Antique Shows was born in the fall of 1981. The multiple editors of the "The Upper Canadian" newspaper, and prominent Ontario dealers, wanted to start a "Brimfield" in Ontario. Plans for the first show were grandiose.