2025
Vol. LXXIV, No. 39 City Edition – 24 Pages
Country Edition – 32 Pages August 18, 2026
HERITAGE DAY A celebration of our NORWEGIAN FOUNDERS
Presenter at this year’s Heritage Day Festival, Ingrid Urberg, PhD, (right) will be verbally painting a picture of the life Norwegian settlers faced in the Camrose area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Adventurous individuals and families made the ocean trip to the eastern shores of Canada or moved here from the American Midwest. Travel overland by rail, or a combination of horse and rail, then typically followed to chosen final destinations. Immigrants often had little choice but to adjust to the simple and challenging life which faced them on the prairies. The cherished formal dress that Ingrid is wearing is a bunad, a traditional Norwegian garment, originally owned and worn by her mom Patricia. For more information about 2026 Heritage Day, see pages 5 and 10.
Inside
Who Can I Count On? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Out and About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 and 11 Sign Up Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 and 13 City of Camrose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 and 15 On the Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 and 17 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 and 19 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 and 22 Central Agencies Realty Inc. . . 23 and 24
This Week's Flyers *partial coverage To Camrose Homes Tuesday
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News Reflections by Bonnie Hutchinson . . . . . 4 CAFCL thanks donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Celebrating the signing of Treaty 6 . . . . . 9 The magic of Queen comes to Camrose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Kinsmen Club hits the links . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Hometown swimmer makes waves . . . . 14
Photo by Ron Pilger
Heritage Day in Camrose will be a wonderful way to let your mind drift back in time and reflect on the lives of ancestors and community founders from many decades in the past. On Saturday, August 22, Olivia Francoeur (left) will no doubt be imagining the excitement, yet trepidation that her great-great grandmother Anna Hansen experienced as she left Norway in 1903 to settle in Canada. The yellow dress that Olivia is shown wearing, saved by five generations of her family along with the steamer trunk positioned on the rail station weigh scale, made the long sea voyage over to Canada. Anna found happiness and love in the area, marrying Hans Huseby in 1905. It was the first wedding to take place in the community’s brand-new Messiah Lutheran Church.