Fort Edmonton

• Fort Edmonton Park celebrates 50th year by ‘bringing history to life’

  Fort Edmonton Park opened its doors on May 17, 1974 and welcomed 91,669 visitors in its first year. The park opens for the 2024 season on May 18.

  Features

  Apr 23, 2024
  
• Artist, Métis historian slam City of Edmonton move to shelve Walterdale Bridge public art

  Celebrating colonization or drawing attention to errors of the past? That's the debate after the City of Edmonton decided not to install art commissioned for the Walterdale Bridge.

  Canada

  Sep 1, 2022
  
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• Indigenous Peoples Experience among new offerings as Fort Edmonton Park reopens after $165M renovation

  Fort Edmonton Park will celebrate its grand reopening this week, after a nearly three-year closure.

  Features

  Jun 28, 2021
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• Fort Edmonton Park 1967 centennial time capsule opened: ‘It’s a connection to our past’

  Flags from Canada's centennial celebrations, a $1 bill and silver dollar, and a copy of the Edmonton Journal newspaper from July 1967 were among the artifacts at Fort Edmonton Park.

  Canada

  May 22, 2019
• New Edmonton river valley development includes nod to the past

  A new development is going up in Riverdale called The Umphreville Block. It's named after someone known as the Métis matriarch and ‘first lady’ of Fort Edmonton.

  Features

  Apr 15, 2019
• Fort Edmonton Park suspends animal activities after horse-drawn carriage tips over

  A horse-drawn carriage tipped over with passengers on-board at Fort Edmonton Park on Wednesday, sending six people to hospital.

  Canada

  Aug 15, 2018
• Alberta government hopes to build off tourism boom in the Rockies

  Alberta's Rocky Mountains are once again bursting with visitors in what could be another banner year, but the government is hoping to get more tourists spending in other areas of the province as well.

  Economy

  Jul 10, 2016