EDMONTON Feature
excellent light but tasty fare in the most spacious and cheerful of settings. Out on the streets expect to find
dishes influenced by the city’s immigrants. For example, Edmonton is famous for its perogies, a staple of its Ukrainian community. Find the basic version on street corners or more elaborate designs – think stuffed with lobster and prawns – at the Hardware Grill on Jasper Avenue.
Visitors looking for the tastes of the
city should time their visit to coincide with the Downtown Dining Week, held every March, and a Taste of Edmonton, which each summer sets up its stalls downtown for 10 days in a tribute to the city’s culinary excellence and diversity (July 19-28). With creations from several city restaurants, it attracts around half-a-million visitors. Any agent or operator wanting to sell
more of Edmonton should catch up with Natacha when she visits the UK this September. “I meet with tour operators and conduct training for key retailers that sell or want to sell more Edmonton product. I’ll be updating them on what’s new and will give them the collateral they need to sell more of our fabulous destination,” she said. Email:
nfudem@edmonton.com;
www.edmonton.com
COMING SOON…
• Edmonton is a city that likes farmers' markets – there are eight within the city limits featuring products grown, shaped, baked or cooked in Alberta. The best known, 104th Street Market, celebrates its ninth season this summer.
Above: The pool and water jets at City Hall, Sir Winston Churchill Square; Strolling in Old Strathcona; West Edmonton Mall
10 SUMMER 2012 • SELLING CANADA
• The city’s Royal Alberta Museum will move into a brand-new $340 million facility by 2015, on the grounds of the current Post Office, doubling both its floor space and number of exhibits.
• Plans for a brand-new (ice) hockey arena have been approved and the proposed facility is awaiting details of public funding. But hockey-mad Edmontonians can expect to see their beloved Oilers skating and taking slap shots in their new home by 2017.
DON’T MISS Old Strathcona – Located across the North Saskatchewan River Parkway, this historic district is packed with theatres, bars, restaurants and one-off stores. Take an evening ghost tour for a history lesson with a difference and don't miss the Farmers Market on Saturdays. For live music, drop into Blues on Whyte. In summer catch the High Level Bridge Streetcar from downtown or enjoy the 40-minute walk over a bridge.
Fort Edmonton Park – See period buildings and imagine yourself in the shoes of beaver fur traders circa 1846 at Canada’s largest living history museum. Then take a steam train ride, streetcar or horse-drawn carriage down streets that take you back to 1885, 1905 and 1920.
Elk Island National Park: A 45-minute drive from Edmonton is Canada’s first federal wildlife sanctuary for wild animals (1906). See elk, herds of plains bison, wood bison, moose and beavers.
Lights, Alberta, Action: Northern Alberta is a premier destination for the Northern Lights. “They are most vividly seen up in Fort McMurray, but we have them here too – all you need is a clear dark night. Just sit there with your hot thermos and watch the lights dancing. It's beautiful,” says Edmonton Tourism’s Natacha Fudem.
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Four nights at the three- star Coast Edmonton Plaza, on a room-only basis, with Air Canada flights from
Heathrow to Edmonton, leads in at £949pp, for travel August 19-October 21 2012. Two nights in Edmonton are also featured on a 13-day tour. From £2799pp the deal includes 11 nights’ accommodation, flights, and two days on the Rocky Mountaineer.
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