Logo of Days of Yore. Come to Didsbury Alberta on August 3 and 4, 2024 to celebrate Alberta's Heritage Weekend strolling through the past from 800 to 1945. Days of Yore is an outdoor living history festival entertaining and educating the public to cultural traditions, lifestyles, and activities of bygone eras through authentic representation of those times.
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SO MUCH EXTRA!!
Everything is outstanding at Days of Yore, what with the hands-on activities for the kids, kulning with the Vikings, trying on armour, casting musket balls,
soldiers writing letters home, and photo ops with all the groups. We also have listed some additional crowd-pleasers for you. Make sure you tell your friends!
Stroll through the encampments at the 2023 Days of Yore festival in Didsbury Alberta, August 5 and 6. BLACKSMITH
You will remember Didsbury's own, Bubba Janzen, from Rude and Rustic Metalworks. He creates traditionally hand forged ironwork made from locally sourced scrap metal.

This year, Bubba is also featuring live blacksmithing demonstrations at an active coal forge!

The ancient skill of blacksmithing is undergoing a modern revival as homeowners and hobbyists drive demand for custom-made metal art.

 Stroll through the encampments at the Days of Yore festival in Didsbury Alberta, August 3 and 4, 2024. CARICATURES
Caricaturist, Mark Cromwell from ColorClub. Mark owns and operates Color Club Creative Works in Calgary.

He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the UofC and his portfolios include Murals, Caricature, Illustration, Graphic Design and more.

Get drawn as your favourite character from history - what a great keepsake to take home. You'll be able to find him quite easily - he'll be flourishing a feather-tipped pen!
PRETEND YOU'RE A KNIGHT!
Hey Kids! Do you want to earn the title of a "Worthy Sir Knight"? Then saddle up one of our Stick Ponies and make believe you're a Medieval Knight, competing in a jousting tournament with the Knights of the Round Table!

You'll want to try on a vest of maile too, or a knight's helmet!

You can also join in with the Vikings and take in one of the Kiddie Vik games! Enjoy a game of checkers or croquet with the Victorians. And wait till you see what the fur traders are bringing! Fun for all!

 Stroll through the encampments at the Days of Yore festival in Didsbury Alberta, August 3 and 4, 2024. HOW'S YOUR MORSE CODE?!
Are you interested in the history of telegraphy - the "Dots & Dashes" of Morse Code? The Victorian Society of Alberta's Telegraph display will be part of the Alberta MTC Line Project this year!

This is an ambitious plan, spearheaded by the Calgary Chapter of the International Morse Telegraph club, to link all the museums in Western Canada that have telegraph displays together across the modern version of the "Victorian Internet"!

Our own Didsbury Museum might even be part of the code!

 Stroll through the encampments at the Days of Yore festival in Didsbury Alberta, August 3 and 4, 2024.
Stroll through the encampments at the Days of Yore festival in Didsbury Alberta, August 3 and 4, 2024. FUN PHOTO OPS!
Oh! And don't forget our Tintamareskis! Bring your camera & pose behind our Tintamareski for a photo-op family memory!

There's Queen Elizabeth II & her corgi, Prince William & Princess Catherine, a very tall and ferocious looking Viking, or a Clan of Vikings in a ship.

Take home some really fun memories!

 Stroll through the encampments at the Days of Yore festival in Didsbury Alberta, August 3 and 4, 2024.
Stroll through the encampments at the Days of Yore festival in Didsbury Alberta, August 3 and 4, 2024.LOOK UP! LOOK WAY WAY UP!!
And our pièce de résistance - our Salute to the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force! The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) has served Canadians in peace and war. It played a vital role in the Second World War, becoming the fourth-largest Allied air force, and reached its "golden age" in the late 1950s.

What is very exciting for all of you will be the flyby of a T-6 Harvard Mk.4, RCAF Serial Number 20377. 377 was built in 1951 by Canadian Car & Foundry T-6 Harvard Mk.4 in Ft. William now Thunder Bay, Ontario. Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) built 555 post Second World War for the RCAF and USAF for Military Defense Aid Pact. It was taken on strength with the RCAF at Trenton Ontario on 16 August, 1951 and has spent time at Number 4 Flying Training School at RCAF Station Penhold and at RCAF Station Lincoln Park in Calgary.

Flybys take place around 1:05 on both Saturday and Sunday.

Learn more about the Harvard Mk. IV here
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Supporting arts, culture & heritage in Carstairs, Cremona, Didsbury, Olds, Sundre and the surrounding Central Alberta communities between Red Deer and Calgary.
Logo designed by Joel Windsor. Venues sponsored by the Town of Didsbury. Stay overnight at the Rosebud Valley Campground at the east entrance to Didsbury. The Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage Program was created to help you celebrate your community, its past and its present. Situated where the foothills of the Canadian Rockies meet the fertile plains, Mountain View County is in the heart of Alberta's Calgary - Edmonton corridor. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts provides support to arts organizations, giving them the power to inspire minds, encourage expression, foster creativity, and contribute to Alberta's economy. Mountain View Arts Society is the main sponsor for Days of Yore. Their logo was designed by Didsbury artist, Lyle Schulz. Book an RV through CanaDream and travel to great festivals like Days of Yore!
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© MOUNTAIN VIEW ARTS SOCIETY In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani as well as the Nakoda and Tsuut'ina nations.
We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland.
Finally, we acknowledge all Nations, indigenous and non, who live, work and play and help us steward this land, honour and celebrate this territory.
This sacred gathering place provides us with an opportunity to engage in and demonstrate leadership on reconciliation.		 WINDSOR GRAPHICS