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About Fort Edmonton Foundation:
The Fort Edmonton Foundation is an Edmonton charity founded in 1969 by Rotarians, business leaders, and passionate community members. Their goal was to preserve the history of Edmonton by rebuilding the original Fort Edmonton and creating a living history museum in the river valley.
Since that time, the Foundation has played a key role in building and expanding the Park to encompass the fur trade era, 1885 Street, 1905 Street, and 1920 Street. Most recently, the Park underwent a three-year enhancement project with funding from all levels of government and the Fort Edmonton Foundation. It reopened to the public in July of 2021 with the award-winning Indigenous Peoples Experience, new Front Entry Plaza and Guest Services Area, expanded 1920’s-style Midway, and many other enhancements.
Mission Statement:
The Fort Edmonton Foundation celebrates Edmonton’s vivid, diverse history. We achieve this through building community philanthropic support for capital projects and other initiatives within Fort Edmonton Park.
JOB OPPORTUNITY – MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Reports to: Executive Director
Location: Fort Edmonton Park
Hours: Full-time, permanent
Mandate:
Marketing and Communications is responsible for the overall management and leadership of the marketing and communications initiatives for the Fort Edmonton Foundation according to the strategic direction set out by the Board of Directors and Executive Director.
Responsibilities:
Strategy and Management
Responsible for planning, development and implementation of all Foundation marketing strategies, communications, and public relations activities, both external and internal
Brand Management
Website, Digital, and Social Media Management
Candidate Profile:
The successful candidate will have the following:
Learn more about the Fort Edmonton Foundation.
To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to lori.farquharson@edmonton.ca.
Thank you for visiting the Fort Edmonton Foundation at the Oil Kings on February 25th! Enter below to WIN a Family Summer Pass to Fort Edmonton Park for the summer of 2024!
Thank you for visiting the Fort Edmonton Foundation at the Silver Skate Festival. Enter below to WIN a Family Summer Pass to Fort Edmonton Park for the summer of 2024!
The Holiday Raffle is now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone for purchasing a ticket and supporting the Fort Edmonton Foundation.
Purchase your tickets TODAY for your chance to win up to $10,000 with Fort Edmonton Foundations 50/50 raffle!
Our 50/50 jackpots have been awarding winners thousands of dollars right across Alberta. Try your luck in the Fort Edmonton Foundation’s 50/50 Cash Raffle! We always look forward to awarding one lucky winner with up to $10,000 cash.
The 50/50 online raffle runs from November 16 at 6:00:00am MST to December 19 at 11:59:59pm MST. Winner will be drawn for cash is on December 20, 2023 at 11:59:59pm MST
Open to all Alberta residents aged 18+.
This online 50/50 supports our Edmonton charity that raises funds for Fort Edmonton Park’s capital projects and initiatives.
The lucky winner will be contacted to claim prize payout. Thank you for supporting the Fort Edmonton Foundation.
AGLC Licence number: AGLC-662941
Draw Date | Winning Ticket # | Raised | Prize |
December 20, 2023 | D-227582 | $4,935.00 | $2,467.50 |
August 4, 2023 | D-229677 | $1.820.00 | $910.00 |
June 30, 2023 | C-230208 | $3,685.00 | $1,842.50 |
March 10, 2023 | D-228685 | $5,090.00 | $2.545.00 |
December 16, 2022 | D-225057 | $5,870.00 | $2,935.00 |
July 15, 2022 | 1360 | $2,070.00 | $1,035.00 |
June 03, 2022 | 2034 | $2,450.00 | $1,225.00 |
April 29, 2022 | 1176 | $3,270.00 | $1,635.00 |
March 18, 2022 | 1658 | $3,620.00 | $1,810.00 |
February 11, 2022 | 1179 | $4,030.00 | $2,015.00 |
December 17, 2021 | 1296 | $4,570.00 | $2,285.00 |
December 8, 2021 | 1353 | n/a | 2 Tickets to World Junior Hockey Championship |
October 29. 2021 | 2683 | $4,140.00 | $2,070.00 |
October 20, 2021 | 1396 | n/a | 4 Tickets to DARK at Fort Edmonton Park |
October 8, 2021 | 2193 | $6,540.00 | $3,270.00 |
August 27, 2021 | 2535 | $3,340.00 | $2,000.00 |
July 30, 2021 | 2638 | $6,900.00 | $4,000.00 |
May 21, 2021 | 6490 | $5,095.00 | $2,547.50 |
April 30, 2021 | 1698 | $5,790.00 | $2,895.00 |
April 9, 2021 | 4066 | $5,850.00 | $2,925.00 |
March 23, 2021 | 225972 | $9,310.00 | $4,655.00 |
February 12, 2021 | 227331 | $13,230.00 | $6,615.00 |
December 21, 2020 | 225417 | $15,350.00 | $7,675.00 |
November 5, 2020 | 90949 | $10,620.00 | $5,310.00 |
September 27, 2020 | 560088 | $12,050.00 | $6,025.00 |
September 1, 2020 | 129586 | $17,520.00 | $8,760.00 |
August 17, 2020 | 566167 | $20,000.00 | $10,000.00 |
June 30, 2020 | 228705 | $9,350.00 | $4,675.00 |
The Fort Edmonton Foundation is a charity in Edmonton that raises funds to bring capital projects and other initiatives to Fort Edmonton Park.
On behalf of Ada’s family we would like to thank you for your donation to honour the late Mrs. Ada (Bruce) Hole.
Mrs. Ada (Bruce) Hole was a philanthropic leader by supporting arts and culture in the community. Fort Edmonton Park held a special in her heart.
Fort Edmonton Park is a vital educational and recreational experience for everyone, especially our regions younger generations.
Fort Edmonton Foundation CARES – (Creating Accessible Responsive Education for Sharing) is an initiative that focuses directly on expanding the accessibility of the Fort Edmonton Park to children and youths. This initiative ensures that all young people whose families are facing physical, social or economic barriers, are given the opportunity to experience the educational (and fun) benefits of Fort Edmonton Park.
On November 28th, The Fort Edmonton Foundation is proud to join communities across Canada and around the world on #GivingTuesday to share our capacity to care for and empower one another.
Fort Edmonton CARES initiative provides an inclusive and holistic experience at Fort Edmonton park as well as expanded educational opportunities throughout the year.
Year-long educational opportunities include:
Inclusive Experience Includes:
In three short years we’ve welcomed over 1,300 children and youth to Fort Edmonton Park
A donation of $100 ensures that Full Experience Package is available to families and children in Edmonton and area.
We see the Park as a vital educational and recreational experience for everyone, especially younger generations. The FEF Cares Initiative will make sure that all young people, even those whose families are facing physical, social or economic barriers, are given the opportunity to experience Fort Edmonton Park.
Fort Edmonton Foundation CARES wants all children and youth to have the opportunity of connection, and self-actualization, regardless of their means, to Fort Edmonton Park.
OUR 2023 FALL FOR THE FORT AUCTION IS ON NOW!
The Fort Edmonton Foundation is excited to be holding its fourth annual Fall for the Fort Online Auction. This year’s auction will launch on Tuesday, August 1, and will wrap on Tuesday, September 12 at 9:00 p.m. MDT with some items closing sooner so keep an eye out!
There’s something for you, your friends and family. All proceeds will go towards the Fort Edmonton Foundation. These funds will go towards ensuring that history is preserved at Fort Edmonton Park.
LINK TO AUCTION
Interested in donating an item?
Founded in 1969 by Rotarians, business leaders, and passionate community members, the Fort Edmonton Foundation’s goal was to preserve the history of Edmonton by rebuilding the fifth and final Fort Edmonton and creating a living history museum in the river valley.
Working in partnership with the Fort Edmonton Management Company and the City of Edmonton, the Foundation continues to celebrate our region’s vivid and diverse history by fundraising to develop capital projects and other initiatives at Fort Edmonton Park.
Guest post from Fort Edmonton Foundation, Historian Laureate, Tim Marriott
Our lives are circumscribed by lines. We are bounded by lines and directed by lines. We stand in line, and, in argument, we draw a line. In advertising we are fed a line. An actor wants to know “what’s my line. In the world of railways, when we arrive at the “End of the Line”, we are at a place that marks the end of steel, the place where the tracks run out. We are at the point of division where the settled world is behind us, and Terra Incognita is before us. In the case of Edmonton’s railway history, it was not just at the end of the line, but was actually beyond the end of the line, way out there in the forest primeval. The tracks ended at today’s Saskatchewan Drive, which was an industrial spur north of the yard and station, the river and the deep river valley separating the end of steel from the straggling cluster of shacks that on the north side comprised the place known as “Edmonton” on the early maps of the time.
Edmonton’s first railway, the Calgary-Edmonton Railway, had a plan to deal with this engineering difficulty. Their plan was to stop there.
Although trains are very beautiful things, railway companies are businesses. It is not the business of businesses to fulfil the grand plans on unincorporated settlements with an uninsured future, as was definitely the case for the Edmonton Settlement in 1891. The Calgary and Edmonton Railway was a business. The C and E, which did not actually start in Calgary, but rather in Fort Macleod, planned that instead of ending in Edmonton, they would stay on the south side and become Edmonton!
In the June 13, 1891, edition of the Edmonton Bulletin, it was reported that the tracks of the C and E railway had reached north of the Battle River, and the grade had been levelled to near modern Leduc (“this side of Telford’s Stopping Place”), only 18 miles from Edmonton. Edmontonians, which had been denied being on the transcontinental route of the Canadian Pacific Railway a decade earlier, were excited that they would finally have a rail connection, and that the world would soon be steaming into Edmonton. The C and E was not being on the ‘main line” which status had been stolen from them when the Pacific railway project was moved south and made that obscure North West Mounted Police Post, Fort Calgary, the important rail centre in what was to become the had Province of Alberta, but it had potential.
But, in the Bulletin though the summer carried some disturbing news. In the July 11 edition, it reported that the “northern terminus” of the line had been decided,” …on the very brink of the valley of the Saskatchewan river, about 300 feet above and about as many yards back from the water’s edge…”. The Bulletin then goes into detail about some of the construction methods for moving the earth dug up from the construction. There is no mention of a bridge.
The next edition of the Bulletin on July 18 notes that the railway is surveying a town site on the south side, creating a business district around the station, which was to be located at modern Whyte Avenue and 103 street, Gateway Boulevard. The Bulletin then goes on to argue that even with this development. the historical importance of Edmonton, and the fact that most of the people live on the north side, and most of the business is there also, means that Edmonton will survive.
The Bulletin’s optimism not withstanding, it is a blow to Edmonton’s aspirations to be beyond the “end of the line”. There is no doubt that there is a surge of interest in buying lots in the new town site; being “near the station” is a key business advantage, certainly. Although the Bulletin suggests that Edmonton will survive, even prospe, with all the new business the railway will bring to the district, it warns its fellow Edmontonians that they must not adopt a “do nothing” attitude. Edmontonians must be vigilant that “public offices” and public works are not moved to the south side. The paper advises Edmontonians that they must excel in everything they do, to guard against a gardula movement to the south side of important institutions.
A decade later, Edmontonians who “excel” in innovation bring the railway tracks to the north side, over a bridge which is only built because north siders jealouly guard their belief in the future of Edmonton proper.
THAT is another story!