Edmonton City

At the centre of Edmonton lies Sir Winston Churchill Square with the eight-storey glass pyramid of City Hall and the architectural gem of the new Art Gallery of Alberta which opens next year. Close by is the Sutton Place Hotel where I stayed: a great base for getting about the city. The Gallery Walk is a multi-disciplinary group of art galleries in the 124^th Street neighbourhood and the first of its kind in Canada; Alex Patterson of TU Gallery was a companionable guide. And Chris Szydlowski of Segway Guide showed me the delights of the latest generation of Segways on a tour of the trails in the North Saskatchewan River Valley

Edmonton Travel Show Guests

After such an enlightening time in Edmonton, it was a delight to broadcast my radio shows from the Metterra Hotel in Edmonton. My guests were Shirley Lowe of the Old Strathcona Business Association, Alex Patterson of TU Gallery and Mae Anderson, a talented local singer whose first CD “Off the Floor” has just been released. In typical Edmontonian fashion, I was pleased to see Mae perform later at Edmonton Chante, an annual French song festival. My grateful thanks to Kelly Bertoncini of Edmonton Tourism for hosting my trip so professionally.