Culture & shops
Culture & shops in Clearview: a working main street, a fair and a circuit of halls
Clearview's culture is practical and proud: a farm-town main street in Stayner, an agricultural fair that anchors the year, a library system that stitches the communities together, and halls that take turns being the theatre.
The anchors, attributed
Stayner is the working centre: the Administration Centre on Gideon Street, the Stayner Community Centre and Arena at 269 Regina Street -- home ice for Clearview Minor Hockey's Canucks and the Stayner Siskins junior club -- with the Stayner Branch of the Clearview Public Library sharing the Regina Street campus. Station Park, on Highway 26, is the downtown green and the gathering point for the township's biggest evenings. Main Street carries the shops, the Heritage Society's Tourism Information Centre sits at 220 Huron Street, and the Clearview EcoPark gives the town a pond-and-trail walk at its edge.
The retail centre of gravity is Stayner's Main Street and Highway 26 strip -- the everyday shops of a working farm town, plus the farm-gate layer around it: Fernwood Farms and the township's farm stands on the county's farm-fresh mapping. The cultural anchors are the fair, the halls and the library. One community needs its boundary stated once, plainly: Creemore, in the township's south-east, is also a Dayfari town in its own right, with its own guide, its own market, brewery and festival records. This guide cross-links to Creemore's own pages where a Clearview loop naturally passes through the village -- and never re-prints Creemore's records as Clearview's. The village is a stop on the loop; its story lives on Creemore's own pages.
The poles of the township
The street
The seat's everyday retail: independent shops, services and diners on a farm-town main street, with the Tourism Information Centre and Heritage Society at 220 Huron Street as the culture desk.
The system
A township library system (created 1994): the Stayner Branch on the Regina Street campus and the New Lowell Branch in its reclaimed historic schoolhouse carry the programmes this guide can stage; the Creemore Branch's records are Creemore's own.
The anchors
The Great Northern Exhibition is the township's signature weekend: the Collingwood Agricultural Society's fall fair, on fairgrounds that sit inside Clearview at 2220 Fairgrounds Road North, Stayner -- the society carries a Collingwood name, but the fair's seat is here, and this guide prints it as a township record, exactly as the township's own boundary ruling settles it. The 2026 edition ran Friday September 25 to Sunday September 27, gates at 9 a.m., with the society's published admission at $15 for adults, $5 for youth and children five and under free, on greatnorthernex.com. Livestock, homecraft, midway and demolition-derby energy on 200-volunteer power: this is the agricultural township showing itself. And through the autumn, the halls take the culture on tour.
The farm layer
Clearview markets twice in season, in two communities. Stayner's Music, Market & Park It fills Station Park on Thursday evenings through the summer -- the county listing runs it June 5 to August 28, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. -- with farmers and food vendors, wineries and artisans, a classic-car display, children's activities, gazebo music and a licensed area run by the Stayner Kinsmen. Brentwood's farmers' market answers on Friday afternoons at Brentwood Hall, 9926 County Road 10 -- the county listing runs it Fridays 3 to 7 p.m., May 29 to October 9 in 2026. Farm stands and markets like Fernwood Farms near Stayner carry the rest of the week. Creemore's Saturday market is Creemore's own record, cross-linked, never copied here. The farm economy is the township's real retail story: this is orchard, livestock and field country, and its shops begin at the farm gate.
What is not here
There is no enclosed mall, no theatre building and no gallery strip seated in the township on the surfaces reached, and none is claimed. The South Simcoe theatre and gallery layer lives in the neighbouring towns -- reached as outings, printed in their own names, never absorbed.
Common questions
Where is the main shopping street in Clearview?
Stayner's Main Street and Highway 26 corridor carry the township's everyday retail. Creemore's Mill Street shops are the famous boutique street -- and they are Creemore's own town record, cross-linked from this guide, not re-listed here.
What is the Clearview Public Library?
The township's own library system, with branches in Stayner (269 Regina Street) and New Lowell, plus the Creemore Branch whose programmes belong to Creemore's guide, and a drop box in Nottawa. Its calendar runs on LibCal.
What cultural events run in Clearview?
The Small Halls Festival (autumn, township-wide), the Great Northern Exhibition (September), library programmes year-round, and hall-board concerts and suppers announced by the halls themselves.
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