Posts Categorized: Events

    The Alaska Highway Road Show Thursday, July 6, 2017 from 7:00 -8:30 p.m. at the Grande Prairie Museum Featuring Alison Tubman, Bill Dolan and Kathy Jessup Celebrating the Trail of ’42 in Story, Song and Images Tickets are $10.00–Cash Only–in Advance or At the Door Only 100 tickets available, so get yours early!… Read more »

Friday, June 9, 2017 at 7 p.m. at the Fort St. John North Peace Museum Farming and homesteading have been happening in the North Peace for over 100 years. Learn about many of the animals involved from horses to pigs and bulls to chickens. Hear hilarious tales of local farm animal mischief over the past… Read more »

August 19-20, 2017 at the North Peace Fall Fair Look for the Museum’s travelling trailer at the North Peace Fall Fair. It features an exhibit all about travelling the Alaska Highway called Road to the Last Frontier. After touring the free exhibit, try your hand at our fish pond. The numbered fish you catch corresponds… Read more »

Friday, July 28, 2017 at the Fort St. John North Peace Museum Learn about travel and tourism along the Alaska Highway from the first tourists in 1948 to current and future tourism initiatives happening along the highway. Presentations will feature historic photographs as well as historic poems about travelling the highway. Call 250-787-0430 for more… Read more »

Friday, July 21, 2017 at the Fort St. John North Peace Museum The Western Command Convoy is coming back to the Fort St. John North Peace Museum to mark the 75th anniversary of the construction of the Alaska Highway. They’ll be driving their historic military vehicles (jeeps, trucks, motorcycles, etc.) up the highway for this… Read more »

Reverend Forbes Homestead Opens An Open House at the Reverend Forbes Homestead and Pioneer Hospital is on Saturday, June 10 to celebrate the beginning of the 2017 summer season. The event features guided tours of Grande Prairie’s first hospital. This is a family friendly event with light refreshments and lawn games from 1p.m. to 5… Read more »

Saturday, July 1, 2017 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fort St. John North Peace Museum Canada is turning 150 and there’s no better way to celebrate than a slice of good old-fashioned homemade Canadian pie. Come on down to the Fort St. John North Peace Museum (9323 100th Street) for some homemade… Read more »

Friday, May 26 at the Fort St. John Cemetery Join us for a guided cemetery tour of the Fort St. John Cemetery on 100 Ave. Learn about the connection of many of the people buried there to the Alaska Highway. From construction workers to entrepreneurs to ambulance drivers, the cemetery is full of people who… Read more »

May 5, 2017 – August 15, 2017 at the Fort St. John North Peace Museum To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the First World War, the Fort St. John North Peace Museum is pleased to host the travelling exhibit Keepsakes of Conflict: Trench Art and Other Canadian War-Related Craft. This exhibit is curated by Heather… Read more »