 |
 |
 |
GRANDE PRAIRIE
ALBERTA, CANADA
 |
|
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 2,200 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.
|
|
Featuring Entire Menus of Grande Prairie Restaurants:
Golden Star, Crown & Anchor, BJs Q Club, MR. MIKES and now Pizza-N-Wings and Ramona Pizza. |
|
Featuring many Grande Prairie Hotels :
Canadian Motor Inn, Stonebridge Hotel, Motel 6, Stanford Inn, Super 8, Best Western, Ramada Inn, Holiday Inn, Redwood Inn, Pomeroy Inn, Sandman Hotel, Holiday Inn Express, Grande Prairie Inn, Service Plus Inns, and The Lodge Motor Inn. |
 |
|
Priced at $299,900, Vintage 2312 sq ft 3 level split family home across from large park in Patterson Place. .........
MORE LISTINGS |
|
The Grande Prairie Business Directory features a variety of businesses with links to their websites.
|
|
The Hotlinks Page now features links to 150 different communities in Alberta.
|
|
Enjoy great hockey action at the Canada Games Arena, home of The Grande Prairie Storm, AJHL Hockey Team.
|
|
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.
|
NOW POSTED
2010 EVENTS OF THE PEACE COUNTRY
Discover The Peace Country
Welcome to the "Peace Country" known for its Prairie, the Boreal Forest, the Rocky Mountains and the Peace River, one of the longest river systems in Canada.
Moose along roadway near Grande Prairie.
The Peace Country includes many Hamlets, Towns, Cities, Rural Farms and Ranches in north western Alberta and also north eastern British Columbia. As well you can experience numerous parks and lakes where one can get closer to nature.
| Grande Prairie NEWS 2010 -by Ken Connors |
Feb 2010- Donations can be made locally for rebuilding a school and orphanage in Haiti. Childrens clothes, tools etc can be dropped off at Barton's Big Country Outdoors, Grande Prairie. (more information) -The City of Grande Prairie has purchased the York Hotel located downtown for $1.1 million. No decision what to do with the property has been made.
Jan 2010- -Stojan's Power Sports (Sexsmith) is constructing a new building east along Highway 43 (east of 4 mile corner) They plan on moving in May of this year. - City Furniture will be moving its store to the old Midwest Furniture location on the Highway ByPass April 1st. (only a few doors down) This will make room for Ashley Furniture HomeStore who will be coming to Grande Prairie late spring/early summer and to be located in the current City Furniture location. (Ashley Furniture will be operated by City Furniture) -The Grande Prairie Inn will be closing and turning into a Seniors Retirment Complex as of June 1, 2010. It will be called "The Grand." -Dunvegan Gardens Teahouse, south of Grande Prairie, has closed its doors.
Jan 2010- The average home price in Grande Prairie is $269,000. The Real Estate market is improving as reported by Jamie Menzies, President of the GP and Area Association of Realtors, and Broker/Owner of Royal LePage, the Realty Group. 41% increase on unit sales and 11% increase of prices from a year ago. See the complete interview in the latest Video. (2:10 min) - A recent survey done by the City of Edmonton, states that Grande Prairie has the highest taxes/utility bills in Alberta making it one of the most expensive in Canada. (Grande Prairie average home tax $1993/average utilities $2,232) -Education Minister Dave Hancock and Infrastructure Minister Ray Danyluk visited the Peace Country for the grand opening of the Hythe Regional School. They also took part in the official opening of Mother Teresa Catholic School in Grande Prairie and the Alexander Forbes School renovation. -Nitehawk Ski Recreation Area gets into full swing with the warmer weather. DiscoverThePeaceCountry.com talks with Duane Stevenson about what is happening at the Ski Hill. PLAY VIDEO (4min 20 sec) - Find out more about the NPHL - Athletics vs Hythe (1:30 min) PLAY VIDEO -Also a special page featuring the community of Grouard has been added to this website.
 |
NEW YEARS EVE - GRANDE PRAIRIE PLAY VIDEO Jan 2010- Many people braved the minus 30 degree temperature to watch the Fireworks to bring in the new year. You can view a 10 minute edited Video of the New Years Eve Grande Prairie FIREWORKS, a presentation of DiscoverThePeaceCountry.com. |
Dec 2009-- Grande Prairie INK (a free weekly newspaper produced by the Daily Herald Tribune) will stop publication after only 2 years. Advertising revenue was not at a level to make it viable. -Energy Minister Mel Knight, made it public we would not stand in the way of nuclear power plants after the Province did a telephone survey indicating the majority of Albertans were in favor of nuclear power (post your opinion) -The Grande Prairie and Region United Way has raised over $879,000. The funds will help those who need social services in Grande Prairie and the surrounding area. -Wade Doris is the new chairman of the Grande Prairie and District Chamber of Commerce. Jamie Menzies (Royal LePage Realtor) is now the President of the Grande Prairie Real Estate Board. -Special feature pages have been added to this website on the Hamlet of Guy. (near McLennan) and Rolla, BC
| 2009 Santa Parade - Downtown Grande Prairie | ||||||
 |
||||||
| Nov 2009- Thousands of people lined the streets of Grande Prairie on Sunday November 29, 2009 for the annual Santa Claus Parade. Santa was joined by many colorful floats. | ||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| 2009 Santa Parade: VIEW PICTURES (Total 98 pictures) | ||||||
| To review other years, visit the following pages on this website: ARCHIVED NEWS: 2010... 2009 .. 2008... 2007 ...2006 ...2005 ... 2004 ... 2003 ... 2002... 2001.. |
 |
|
Grande Prairie Real Estate:
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
ROYAL LEPAGE WEBSITE
Royal LePage is the exclusive Real Estate Company supporting DiscoverThePeaceCountry.com |
NUCLEAR POWER
IN THE PEACE COUNTRY
Jan 2010- 'I cannot believe the short-sightedness of Alberta's leaders' ...
Dec 09- Province survey indicates majority of Albertans are in favor of nuclear power.
(Read Comments - Post Your Opinion)
|
VIDEOS
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
VIDEOS
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
|
|||
|
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.
|
All information on DiscoverThePeaceCountry.com written by Ken Connors including all the Video and Photography.
ABOUT THIS SITE, COMMENTS, FAQ.S / EXTERNAL LINKS
Legal: All pictures, images and information on discoverthepeacecountry.com are protected by copyright which means it is unlawful to reproduce any picture, image or information in whole or part without written permission. For those who wish to use a picture/image from this website on another website can do so by signing a licensing-use agreement contract for a minimum cost of $10,000 per picture. Using pictures for any amount of time without the licensing agreement will result in legal action taken to recover the costs of $10,000 per picture.
© Copyright 2003-2010. Contact: kenconnors@excite.com