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GRANDE PRAIRIE
ALBERTA, CANADA
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This website NOW features over 70 areas in Northwestern Alberta and Northeastern British Columbia known as the Peace Country. All of the Peace Country is now on ONE website with over 1,500 pictures on this site. Each area can be accessed from the 4 pull down menus at the top of each page or by accessing the Map of the Peace Country or Map of County. These road maps are clickable...click on any area of the map and information and pictures comes up.
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Featuring Entire Menus of Grande Prairie Restaurants:
Golden Star, Joey's Only, Crown & Anchor, McDonalds, Sarpino's Pizza, BJs Q Club, Jakes Down South, KFC, Badass Jacks, JAX Grill, and MR. MIKES. |
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Featuring many Grande Prairie Hotels :
Podollan Inn, Canadian Motor Inn, Stonebridge Hotel, Quality Hotel, Stanford Inn, Super 8, Best Western, Ramada Inn, Holiday Inn, Pomeroy Inn, Sandman Hotel, Holiday Inn Express,Grande Prairie Inn, Service Plus Inns and The Lodge Motor Inn. |
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The Grande Prairie Business Directory features a variety of businesses with links to their websites.
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The Hotlinks Page now features links to 150 different communities in Alberta including Bonnyville, Brooks, Camrose, Devon, Drayton Valley, Drumheller, Edson, Fox Creek, Grande Cache, Hinton, Lacombe, Leduc, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Olds, Picture Butte, Ponoka, Red Deer, Stettler, St. Paul, Swan Hills, Sylvan Lake, Taber, Vegreville, Vermilion, Wainwright, Westlock, Wetaskiwin, Whitecourt and many more.
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Enjoy great hockey action at the Canada Games Arena, home of The Grande Prairie Storm, AJHL Hockey Team.
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Home of the Grande Prairie Athletics (Senior Hockey Team) NPHL, that challenges other teams in the Peace Country including the High Prairie Regals, Hythe Mustangs, Fairview Kings, Falher Pirates, Lakeland Eagles (from McLennan) the Spirit River Rangers, Peace River Stampeders, Fort St John Flyers and Valleyview Jets. (The Grande Prairie Athletics were formed in 1954.)
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A RADIO SCRAPBOOK that centres on the Radio History of the Peace Country and includes other radio stations Ken Connors worked for. (1971-1981) CFGP, (SUN-FM Rock 97.7 FM) CKNL Fort St John, 1140 CKXL Calgary, CJOC Radio Lethbridge, 1090 CHEC Lethbridge, CJME Regina, 630 CHED Edmonton.
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City of Grande Prairie
The City of Grande Prairie Population is now over 50,000.
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Welcome to Grande Prairie, Canada, one of the fastest growing cities in Canada. Located 460 kilometers (286 miles) northwest of Edmonton, Alberta. Grande Prairie has a large trading zone of more than 200,000 people. The "Peace Country" includes many Hamlets, Towns, Rural Farms and Ranches in Northern Alberta and also Northern British Columbia. Known as the Mighty Peace River Country.
Spectacular fireworks help bring in the new year at Muskoseepi Park located in the central part of the city. |
| Grande Prairie BUSINESS NEWS 2008 -by Ken Connors |
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| HAPPY NEW YEAR!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!! December 31st Fireworks in Grande Prairie help bring in 2009. More full size Pictures |
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Dec 08- On January 1st, 2009, a new law comes into effect regarding the sale of Tobacco. It will not be allowed to be sold in pharmacies, stores that have a pharmacy, post secondary institutions, and health-care facilities. But....retailers with a pharmacy will still be able to sell the product as long as there is a seperate entrance for the store and the pharmacy. -Francois Fournier was named new general manager of the 2010 Arctic WInter Games and fills the position of Bryan Elliott who resigned last November. Fournier has been at the Grande Prairie Regional College since 1996. -The United Way of Grande Prairie Region raised over $800,000 to help the less fortunate. -Janice Chomik was recently elected as chairwoman of the board for the Grande Prairie Chamber of Commerce.
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| 2008 Santa PARADE - GRANDE PRAIRIE - View Photos Nov 08- Thousands of people lined the streets of Grande Prairie on Sunday November 30, 2008 for the annual Santa Claus Parade. Santa and Mrs. Claus made their appearance.. (Pictures of Parade). |
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Nov 08- A concerned group of demonstrators paraded the streets of Grande Prairie on November 12 carrying signs in protest to Nuclear Power. (Solar Not Nuclear, Co-Generation Not Nuclear, The Unborn are the Panel, Come Clean Stelmach, Make the Right Choice No Nuclear etc) There has been concern about Nuclear Power since it was announced one of the locations being considered for a Nuclear Power Plant is near Grimshaw, Alberta. NUCLEAR POWER In the Peace Country. (Read Comments - Post Your Opinion) |
Nov 08 -Grand Opening took place for Future Shop, brand new building west of Costco on the west side of Grande Prairie. Best Buy is now open in the same area. Also Subway opened another location there. The owners of the Subways in Grande Prairie recently purchased Fairytales Store located downtown. -2009 Events of the Peace Country have been posted on DiscoverThePeaceCountry.com and will have continual updates. 2009 EVENTS OF THE PEACE COUNTRY.
Nov 08- Grand Opening took place for Grande Prairie Nissan, with a brand new building located on the Hyway ByPass, 10314-116 Avenue. - First snowfall of the year in Grande Prairie that fell and iced up the roads happened on November 5th. -Central West Business Park, on the west side of Grande Prairie, has its first major building completed. Work Warehouse is now open at their new location. -The Sears Mall, next to Superstore on the north end of the City, is getting a major uplift. All the businesses in that Strip Mall are getting a new facelift. -It wasn't that long ago that the Grande Prairie and District Credit Union, changed its name to Commonwealth Credit Union. Now it has changed again to Servus Credit Union.
Oct 08- The 2008 Canadian Hot Air Balloon Championships took place over 5 days in Grande Prairie with 17 pilots from across Canada competing.
| To review other years, visit the following pages on this website: BUSINESS NEWS 2008... 2007 ...2006 ...2005 ... 2004 ... 2003 ... 2002... 2001.. |
ALBERTA PARKS AND LAKES: Dunvegan, Figure 8 Lake, Kleskun Hills, Lesser Slave Lake, Moonshine Lake, Musreau Lake, Notikewin Park, Pipestone Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, Saskatoon Lake, Simonette River, Snipe Lake, Sturgeon Lake, Spring Lake, Swan Lake AB, Twin Lakes, Two Lakes, Winagami Lake. BC PARKS AND LAKES: Gwillim Lake, Kinuseo Falls, Kiskatinaw Park, Moberly Lake, One Island Lake, Swan Lake BC. Includes Provincial Parks. Cities in the Peace Country Include Fort St John BC, Dawson Creek BC, as well as Grande Prairie AB.
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Grande Prairie Real Estate:
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Royal LePage is the exclusive Real Estate Company supporting DiscoverThePeaceCountry.com
The Alberta Mill is Ainsworth's biggest OSB manufacturing plant that employs over 200 people from Grande Prairie and area.
Weyerhaeuser, located a few km south of the City, produces dimension lumber - visual grade lumber for export and North American markets, construction grades, and low grades for Alberta remanufactures and employs about 700 people. Originally opened in 1972 as Procter & Gamble.
Canadian Forest Products
(Canfor) employs over 175 employees - administrative, sawmill and the woodlands operation. The Canfor operation manufactures top quality dimension lumber.
Risley Equipment
Risley Equipment employs over 175 people producing the patented Risley Rotosaw, Lim-mit delimbers, the Rolly II Modular Single Grip harvester and Double Grip Rocessor, and the Rotosaw Slingshot Harvesting Head.
Prairie Mall
The Prairie Mall located on the North end of Grande Prairie opened in 1974, now offers more than 90 stores and services, 650 seat Food Court plus parkade.
Queen Elizabeth II Hospital
Regional health care facility employs over 1000 people. Cares for approximately 10,000 patients in one year plus over 100,000 out-patients per year. Health Region 8 is now officially called the "Peace Country Health Region". 98 Street and 105 Avenue.
214 Place, located in the Downtown sector at the corner of 100 Avenue and 102 Street, is the tallest building in Grande Prairie. It alone employs approximately 1000 people. There are over 400 stores in the Downtown and employs about 4000 people.
Information and pictures on this website compiled by Ken Connors.
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