Event Highlights - 2012

February

• Second Annual Family Fest.  Special Guests were the 78th Highlanders of the Halifax Citadel who entertained us with piping, drumming and Victorian style hockey.

April

• Interviewed and hired students to work in the gift shop and with the day camp program.

May

• First performance of the new David Thompson Puppet Show.
• Prepared and planted our Fur Trade garden.

June

• Entered a float in the Rocky Mountain House Rodeo parade together with Parks Canada.

July

• Held our annual Barbeque on Canada Day.
• Sponsored special guests, The Edmonton House Brigade re enactors, at the Legends and Legacies weekend
• Sold popcorn and pop at the Pow Wow and hot dogs at the stargazing event.

 

August

• Held day camp programs on both English and French throughout the summer.

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September

• Held our first ever historical wine walk supper.  Guests experienced a progressive supper, with wine tasting and entertainment.

 

October

• Participants in the photo workshop honed their camera skills during a beautiful fall day.

November

• Held a Diamond Jubilee tea with Charlotte Small with guest performer Sharon Wass as Charlotte  Small and local fiddler Susanna Heystek.  This was followed by our Annual General Meeting.
• The David Thompson Puppet Show travelled Red Deer to perform at the Red Deer Museum as part of their  Fur Trade exhibit.

December

• People lined up to have their pictures taken with Fur Trade Santa and see the reindeer.  They also had an opportunity to do some shopping in our Trading Post.