Fort Edmonton Park, Living history museum in Edmonton River Valley, Canada
Fort Edmonton Park is a living history museum in the Edmonton River Valley, Alberta, that displays reconstructed buildings and streets from several eras of the city's past. Each section forms a neighbourhood with houses, shops and workshops, allowing visitors to walk through multiple decades.
Planning began during Canada's centennial anniversary celebrations and led to the opening of this site in 1974. Since then, the site has been expanded step by step to represent additional chapters in Alberta's development.
The park takes its name from the Hudson's Bay Company trading post that once stood in the river valley and served as a meeting point for fur traders. Visitors today encounter costumed interpreters who demonstrate old crafts and recreate daily routines from earlier centuries.
Entry includes use of the steam train and streetcar, which run between the themed areas. Visitors should allow several hours to experience all four historical sections and take part in demonstrations.
The site divides into four clearly separated time periods, each corresponding to a particular decade or era. Visitors can thus move within minutes from a 19th-century trading fort to a 1920s town with fairground and carousels.
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