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, Rick's Place Catering, 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. |
2008 EVENTS OF THE PEACE COUNTRY
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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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Grande Prairie has become the "Hot Air Balloon Capital of Canada", after hosting the first ever Canadian Hot Air Balloon Championships in 1979 and again in 2005. The Western Canadian Hot Air Balloon Championships were held in Grande Prairie in Oct. of 2006.
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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, Grimshaw Huskies, Manning Comets, 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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GRANDE PRAIRIE REAL ESTATE
Grande Prairie has now the highest "apartment " vacancy rates in Alberta with 4.9%.
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Information and pictures on this website compiled by Ken Connors.
discoverthepeacecountry.com website was featured in the Vancouver Province Newspaper as one of the TOP 10 SITES of British Columbia for the week of August 18th, 2004.
This website has now become one of the most visited websites in northern Alberta and northern British Columbia.
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 |
- Bruce Power has made application to get approval to build a Nuclear Power Plant near Peace River. (read more...post Your Opinion)
May 08- Royal LePage in Grande Prairie is now one of the major supporters of DiscoverThePeace.com. -Effective September 8, 2008 ten digit dialling will be mandatory in the 780, 403, and 250 calling areas. That means all local phone calls will have to include the area code. All speed-dials will require reprogramming, which will also affect fax machines, alarm systems, and even internet dial-up phone numbers. -More street lights are to be installed on Grande Prairie's west side around 120 Street, west of Costco on the Highway 43. It will give access to the Brochu Industrial Park area and the new Central West development on the south of the highway. -A new school is now under construction along Lakeland Drive in the Lakeland Subdivision in the northeast corner of Grande Prairie.
April 08- Just when most of us had done our spring cleanup and were out golfing, mother nature gave us quite a few days of blizzard conditions with snowfall warnings (April 19-22) dumping 12cm of snow in Grande Prairie over 50 hours with temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius. This storm not only hit the Peace Country but included all of Alberta.
April 08- Another new hotel is getting closer to getting completed. Motel 6, located north of Peace Farm Power along 100 Street almost at the 4-mile corner. -Construction continues west towards the Airport with a new Esso and another Tim Hortons to open later this year. Located at approximately 120 Street which is across the road from Stahl Peterbilt Truck location. -Peace Wapiti School Division has made the decision to close the Valhalla School at the end of July 2008. -More changes at the radio stations in Grande Prairie. April Lyn has left the morning show at Free FM to move to Vernon BC. -Taylor Wold who joined the morning show at Q99 just last January has decided to get out of radio completely. -Canfor Mill is reducing its production in Grande Prairie by 20 per cent. No layoffs but they will move towards a 32-hour work week. -Boucher Brothers Lumber in Nampa laid off 28 people.
Mar 08- A new RV business, Paradise RV, has opened on the north side of Grande Prairie selling 5th wheels and trailers. Located at 13701-99 Street, near the UFA Cardlock, it also has locations in Red Deer and Leduc. - Minimum wage will increase April 1, 2008 to $8.40 but won't be much a factor in Grande Prairie because most people are paid well above that. - Gas prices have now reached an all time high in Grande Prairie with the cost at most pumps near $1.14 a litre for regular gas. - Peppermint Twist Hair Design and Day Spa has a new location in the Cobblestone Plaza on the far east side of Grande Prairie. TD Canada Trust opens another location at Cobblestone Plaza as well. - City manager Dave Gourlay retires after 19 years with the city. -City of Grande Prairie has approved a $1.9 million new animal pound. The new building will be located next to SPCA on the west side of the City.
Mar 08- The Progressive Conservative Party wins the election in Alberta. Mel Knight (PC) is re-elected in the Grande Prairie-Smoky riding, while Wayne Drysdale (PC) wins Grande Prairie-Wapiti. -Best Buy will be coming to Grande Prairie. A 25,000 sq ft building is to be constructed on the west side of Grande Prairie. -The QEII Hospital Foundation Dream Home is scheduled to open May 2, 2008 and will be located in West Lake Village. Tickets are on sale.
Feb 08- 1st Annual Murray Sutherland Memorial Outdoor Hockey Tournament will take place March 7-9 at Clairmont Lake with proceeds going to the Clairmont Community Centre and Arena. -The Provincial Election will be held March 3rd, 2008. Candidates in the Grande Prairie area are: GRANDE PRAIRIE-SMOKY Alberta Liberal - John Croken, Green Party - Rebecca Villebrun, NDP - Neil Peacock, PC - Mel Knight, Wildrose Alliance - Todd Loewen. GRANDE PRAIRIE-WAPITI Alberta Liberal - Augustine Ebinu, Green Party - Art Proctor, NDP - Manuella Campbell, PC - Wayne Drysdale. (Alberta Leaders: Kevin Taft - Alberta Liberals, Brian Mason- NDP, Paul Hinman - Wildrose Alliance, George Read - Green Party, Len Skowronski - Social Credit, Ed Stelmach - PC.)
Feb 08- Music Centre Canada has opened a franchise in Grande Prairie selling all kinds of musical instrument. It is located at 103 Avenue and 100 Street (the old CFGP building) -This year Grande Prairie is celebrating its 50 Anniversary as it became a city back in 1958. Many events are planned for Aug 2-4 to help celebrate this milestone.
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| The Holiday Inn Express in now open on the north end of Grande Prairie along the Highway By-Pass. You can find it directly west of the Pomeroy Inn and Suites (117 Avenue and 102 Street) | Redwood Inn and Suites is getting closer to completion. Located north of the Ramada Inn near the 4-mile corner at 84 Avenue and 99 Street, Clairmont. |
Jan 08- This year the Grande Prairie Chamber of Commerce awarded the Clem E. Colins award to Jackie Clayton. The Dan H. Minchin was presented to Curry's Jewellers and Business Citizens of the year went to Glen and Judy Keddie, owners of Keddies. -Augustine Ebinu is now the new Liberal leader of the GP Wapiti area of the Peace Country. - Changes at Q99, one of the newer radio stations in Grande Prairie, sees their morning show hosts Crash and Mars leaving for Saskatchewan. They have been replaced by Tyler Wold and the Q99 Morning Show.
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| Standard Auto Glass is constructing a new building just west of the current location of 124 Avenue and 101 Street Grande Prairie. | The Commonwealth Credit Union has started construction of a new north location, just west of the Super 8, along 102 Street. |
| 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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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.
The QEII Hospital Foundation holds its Festival of Trees each year to raise money to purchase new equipment for the hospital. (Dec 2003, $200,000 was raised)
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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