Edmonton Heritage Festival

Edmonton Heritage Festival

The Edmonton Heritage Festival is an annual celebration of Alberta's ethnic diversity. It was first celebrated in 1974, when then Minister of Culture, Horst Schmidt, declared the first Monday of August an annual holiday to recognise Albertans' cultural heritage. That year, the first Heritage Festival was held at Fort Edmonton Park.

In 1976, eleven cultural communities combined their resources to hold a one-day display of their traditional dances, foods, and crafts in Hawrelak Park, and in the intervening years, the celebration has grown to occupy all three days of the long weekend. Except for occasional declines due to poor weather, the festival has seen a steady increase in the number of attendees, and nearly thirty years after its inception, the festival draws nearly four hundred thousand people to celebrate over 60 different ethnicities and cultures.

Admission is free; however, people are requested to bring a donation for the Edmonton Food Bank.

2008 Ethnic Pavilions

Aboriginal (11a)
Afghani (43)
Afrika OYI (27)
Arabic (9c)
Azerbaijani (5)
Bangladeshi (10)
Bornean (13)
Bosnia-Hercegovinian (9a)
Cambodian (12)
Caribbean (1)
Chilean (33)
Chinese (28)
Congo (26)
Croatian (53)
Dutch (46)
Ecuadorian (14)
English (12a)
Eritrean (15)
Ethiopian (41)
Fijian (2)
Filipino (9b)
French (17)
German (23)
Greek (29)
Guatemalan (16)
Hong Kong (18)
Hungarian (7)
Ibero American (42)
Indian (3)
Indonesian (45)
Iranian (36)
Irish (44)
Israeli (19)
Italian (37)
Japanese (20)
Kenyan (11)
Korean (39)
Laotian (38)
Malaysia - Singaporean (11b)
Mexican (48)
Nepali (40)
Nicaraguan (25)
Nigerian (9s)
Pakistani (54)
Peruvian (24)
Polish (8)
Polynesian (4)
Portuguese (21a)
Romanian (21)
Russian (22)
Scandinavian (47)
Serbian (32)
Sri Lankan (35)
Taiwanese (51)
Thai (49)
Turkish (6)
Ugandan (52)
Ukrainian (50)
Venezuelan - Brazilian (34)
Vietnamese (31)
Welsh (30)

ee also

*Festivals in Alberta

External links

* [http://www.heritage-festival.com/ Edmonton Heritage Festival]


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