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From: "Valerie Williams" <>
Subject: Re: [CAN-MHSA] MHSA visits their counterpart in La Crete
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:41:22 -0600


Sorry I can't make it, that is my Anniversary Date!

Val (Toews) Williams



>From: "andi neufeld" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: [CAN-MHSA] MHSA visits their counterpart in La Crete
>Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:47:07 -0600
>
>You may or may not know about the excursion on Sept. 26 to La Crete, a 12
>hr bus ride straight north.
>
>We will be visiting the pioneer village museum established and maintained
>by the Mennonite population in that most northerly outpost in AB. The bus
>ride will cost you $110 each but be worth every cent.
>
>To register please send your name address etc. and the fare to Ralph Dahl,
>26 Varcrest Place NW Calgary, T3K 4G3. We will need to have your
>registration on or before Aug. 31.
>
>The folks planning the event promise to regale us with stories of their
>pioneer life which began in the early 30's. The community is now large and
>growing with all the modern conveniences imaginable except quick access to
>suburbia.
>
>They also offered to host visitors in their homes or if you insist, there
>is a motel with rooms starting at $65. At present we have reserved one
>bus, returning on Sunday, Sept 28. However, we would contract a second one
>if enough of you sign up. If there is a second one or if everyone can stay
>an extra day, we will return on Mon. the 29th. That gives opportunity to
>attend church with the local folk, and spend the afternoon in a variety of
>other activities. One that has been suggested by them is a boat trip
>upstream on the Peace River to Carcajou, the site where the first Mennonite
>settlement was erected. Some of the original homes are still intact and
>accessible.
>
>This promises to be a weekend of rich and meaningful historical dialogue
>and an introduction to an almost exclusively low german speaking, fully
>bilingual population living in the vast agricultural and forestry economy
>in northern AB.
>
>For further information contact me at this e-mail address or by phone at
>241 1819.
>
>Dick Neufeld
>
>
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