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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 1,800 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, Crown & Anchor, BJs Q Club, and MR. MIKES. |
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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. |
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High quality Executive home on 2.5 treed acres, only 8 km from Grande Prairie. Fully developed 4 bdm home has walk-out basement.........
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, 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 north western Alberta and also north eastern British Columbia. Known as the Mighty Peace River Country.
Spectacular fireworks help brng in the new year at Muskoseepi Park located in the central part of the city. |
| Grande Prairie BUSINESS NEWS 2009 -by Ken Connors |
June 09- Winner of the QEll Dream Home Prize Package was David Knelsen of Grande Prairie (list of winners) -Visions Electronics has moved to its brand new store west side of Grande Prairie, 11706-99 Avenue. -Fires at campgrounds became out of control in a number of campgrounds in the Peace Country. Campers were evacuated at Hommy Park, near Beaverlodge June 12th weekend, and there wer out-of-control fires at Youngs Point Campground. Fire bans are now in effect at all County campgrounds. -84 Avenue is getting a 4 lane from 108 Street (Wapiti Road) to 116 Street (at Wespointe Subdivision) Also 116 Avenue east of Crystal Park School is now a 4 lane. -Rona will be opening their new store on the west side of Grande Prairie on June 17. -The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp has released figures on the Grande Prairie Spring Rental Market. Grande Prairie has a vacancy rate of 8.5% which puts it the highest in Alberta.
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New Library Opens
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New Sports Store Opens
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Servus Credit Union Opens
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May 09- Wholesale Sports Outdoor Outfitters, has opened its doors at 11120-100 ave (old Future Shop building) Lots of fishing supplies, hunting, camping equipment, clothing etc. Has about 40 employees. -The new Servus Plus Credit Union near 102 Street and the Highway ByPass will be opening the first week of June. On the west side, (west of Costco) another new bank, the CIBC will be opening a new location August 31 and Aussies Western Wear and Mucho Burrito recently announced they will also be opening in the same area in the near future. -Word is out that Grande Prairie will be getting a new Grocery Store, Loblaws, to be located at the corner of 84 Avenue and Wapiti Road (Highway 40). There is no confirmed start date but will also include a Tim Hortons in the same area of South 40 Developments. -The new Grande Prairie Library is scheduled to open in June. -The first flu-related death in Canada has occured in the Peace Country linked to the influenza A/H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu). The 39 year old woman from the High Prairie Area drove herself to the hospital but died a short time later. She had a history of asthma and diabetes but had no connection to Mexico.
May 09 -Another business opens in the new mini mall along 68 Avenue and Katari Drive. (East of the St Joseph Catholic High School) Snap Fitness is now open along with Pizza 73, Booster Juice, Starbucks Coffee and the ATB. - The City of Grande Prairie has raised its property taxes to 9.4%. An average home will have to pay about $290 more per year. - Nichole and Bill McMullen of Grande Prairie won the Lotto 6/49 draw recently winning 4.6 million dollars.
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The 2009 QE2 Dream Home opened May 1 at 5610 Aspen Drive in Taylor Estates. (Located on the southeastern part of the City on the way to Pine Valley) From Resources Road go east on 68 Avenue, until you get to the Pine Valley Road and head south til you see the signs of Taylor Estates. The Dream Home is situated amongst the Pine Trees in a very quiet setting. |
April 09- Urban Homes will be closing its doors at the end of May, 2009. They have been located downtown Grande Prairie at the corner of 100 Avenue and 99 Street. (west of the Co-op) -Echo AVU (Bruce Little and his staff) has moved a few doors south to take up the old Lauzons location at the corner of 100 Street and 111 Avenue. - Pet Smart will be opening up a Grande Prairie location on the far west of the City. Construction is underway, with the Grand Opening targeted for August of this year. Twenty new Pet Smart stores are opening this year (Canada and USA), with Grande Prairie being the only Canada addition.
April 09- It wasn't very long ago that the Provincial Government announced it wanted to spend $4 million for a new slogan and another $25 million promoting it, then recently decided to close the Grande Prairie Young Offenders Centre because of budget cuts. The Bear Creek School would also close. Young Offenders info-pictures -The Grande Prairie Storm have won the Junior Hockey League Championship April 5, 2009 in a 4 game sweep over the Spruce Grove Saints. -People are talking about the old Future Shop location (near Walmart) will be home to a Warehouse Sports Shop. -The Swan City Rotary Clubs 10th Annual Cash and Camping Lottery is officially on with 550 prizes to give away. the draw date is July 1, 2009. The Cash and Camping tent is set up next to Staples in the Gateway Power Centre.
March 09- East Side Mario's in Grande Prairie has closed its doors. photo-additonal info Besides having an empty parking lot, no-one had been answering their phone. A note on the door confirms they are closed indefinitely. -Alberta Minimum Wage increases from $8.40 per hour to $8.80 per hours as of April 1, 2009. This will affect about 20,000 people with the majority between 15-19 years old. - Aquatera is increasing their rates. A typical Grande Prairie resident could now pay $82.49 monthly for water, sewer, garbage and recyling. The City's landfill site has also increased the minimum rate by 100 per cent. (from $5 to $10) plus added a 10 per cent Municipal Franchise Fee on top of that. All tipping fees per tonne have also increased.
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| March 09- The Scotiabank opens a brand new branch west of Costco in Grande Prairie. Further west of this location there is an abundance of construction of a Hotel, Rona and Visions. |
| To review other years, visit the following pages on this website: BUSINESS NEWS 2009 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.
All information on DiscoverThePeaceCountry.com written by Ken Connors including all the Photography.
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NUCLEAR POWER
IN THE PEACE COUNTRY
March 09- Protesters take to the streets in Manning Alberta at a recent infromation session held by Bruce Power.
April 09- Lac Cardinal resident posts comment, Bruce Power, you are not welcome".
June 09- "I do not believe a word Bruce Power tells us", says Grimshaw resident.
(Read Comments - Post Your Opinion)
BABY BOOMERS
Advertising trends are changing in Canada. Target Baby Boomers. (more)
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Spring is officially here but the snow still keeps coming. March 2009.
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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.
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