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In 1902, after the Government of Canada announced it would sponsor a major exhibition at the site in 1903, the Toronto City Council decided to rebuild the exhibition site. In 1903, the Government of Canada reached an agreement to transfer the remaining military reserve to the City of Toronto. Under the agreement, military uses were permitted to continue until such time that replacement facilities were built. Included in this was Old Fort York, which the City committed to preserve.{{sfn|Sendzikas|2011|p=89}} The building campaign saw the building of fifteen permanent buildings designed by architect [[George Wallace Gouinlock|G. W. Gouinlock]] from 1903 until 1912, including the surviving Press Building, Horticulture Building, [[Government Building (Toronto)|Government Building]], Music Building and Fire Hall / Police Station. The new buildings were elaborately designed and set in an attractively landscaped site. At the conclusion of the building campaign, the name was officially changed to the Canadian National Exhibition. The five remaining buildings were declared a historic site in 1988.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=HistoricPlaces.ca |url=http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10470 |title=Gouinlock Buildings / Early Exhibition Buildings National Historic Site of Canada |access-date=October 26, 2015}}</ref>
Several of the older buildings were lost to fire during this time, including the first Grandstand and the Crystal Palace (known as the Transportation Building) in 1906. In 1910, the Dufferin Gates was replaced with a more elaborate arch and out-buildings on each side.
During [[World War I]], the
When the CNE became the world's largest annual fair in 1920, a 50-year plan was launched following the urban design and architectural precedents of the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in [[Chicago]].{{sfn|Osbaldeston|2008|pp=197–198}} [[Chapman and Oxley]] prepared the 1920 plan, which emphasized [[Beaux-Arts architecture]] and [[City Beautiful movement|City Beautiful]] urban design. The Empire Court was to be a monumental central space with a triumphal arch and gates and monumental exhibition buildings with courtyards.
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