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You are invited to the Grande Prairie & District Old Timers’ Association Annual Banquet at the Five Mile Hall. Doors open at 4:30pm, Dinner at 6:00pm with Silent and Live Auctions, Live Music by Pipestone Jammers, and presentations. Bring your friends. Invite your neighbours. This is the perfect evening to enjoy a tasty meal, listen to some toe tapping old time music, dance, and catch up on all the news.
Tickets in advance : click on the “GET TICKETS” link
At the door: only if there are any left
General Seating: ages 13+ = $55 and ages 5-12 years = $25;
4 and under = free
Seating is limited so get your tickets early
For more information call Carrie Wohlgemuth at 780-897-4545
About The Grande Prairie & District Oldtimers Association;
It was organized in September 1928, by an enthusiastic meeting of the Pioneers in the Herald Hall in Grande Prairie. The district comprises an area from the Peace River, south to the Wapiti River, and from the Alberta/BC boundary, east to Valleyview. To meet the qualifications of a member, a person, and descendants of all such persons, must have settled or resided in Grande Prairie District prior to March 5, 1916.
The pioneers of this Association came to the area by the Long Trail, from Edmonton through Athabasca or Swan Hills to Grouard, Peace River, Dunvegan, and south to the Grande Prairie area, a distance of five hundred and fifty miles but provided steeper hills, and in wet summers, weeks of slogging through the muskegs. In the Fall of 1911, the Edson-Grande Prairie Trail was completed which cut the mileage down to two hundred and fifty miles but provided steeper hills, and in wet summers, weeks of slogging through the muskegs.
