Heritage & Travel Companion App Launches in Less Than 1000 days!
It took less than a 1000 days - 986 to be exact from the "light bulb moment" to yesterdays soft launch at the Prince of Wales Armouries & Heritage Centre in Edmonton.
Initiated by the Friends of Historical Northern Alberta Society (FHNAS) the History Check is a heritage & travel companion mobile app that spans across northern Alberta starting in the Edmonton region and going north to all borders.
Watch the Soft Launch at Prince of Wales Armouries.
Emceed by Sheila Willis, Executive Director of FHNAS, speakers included:
- The Honourable Danielle Larivee - MLA Lesser Slave Lake, Minister of Children's Services
- Stephen Yakimets - Director - Edmonton & District Historical Society
- Chief Calvin Bruneau - Papaschase First Nation
- Shirley Lowe - Former Edmonton Historian Laureate
- Reeve Murray Kerik - MD of Lesser Slave River
This is no ordinary app. Launched with 331 communities and regions and approximately 1000 Points of Interest History Check will continue to add information.
Initiated by Friends of Historical Northern Alberta Society (FHNAS) was and will be a project that involved a lot of collaboration - as our now 34+ feet of Appreciation Scroll attests to.
The FHNAS team invites other individuals, historians, historical organizations, and economic development groups to submit information for their local area. This can be done for individual sites or, through the addition to our Admin Panel for multiple sites. More information can be found at our FHNAS Website.
While we are in the soft launch or beta-testing stage you can download the app and try it. Please give us your feedback or alert us to any bugs before our Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on October 4th at the Provincial Archives of Alberta in Edmonton.
If you have any questions, would like to learn more about contributing information, sponsorships, or advertising, please contact Sheila Willis at 780-805-1390 or [email protected] for more info.
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