Mtn View Arts Society hosts Days of Yore. 2024's event features living historians entertaining & educating to cultural traditions, lifestyles & activities of bygone eras. The Mountain View Arts Society recognizes the significance of hosting art, music, dance, & other similar events in Mountain View County. Incorporated in January of 2012, after an incredibly successful Arts Festival in September 2
011, the Society began hosting and promoting all that is arts, culture, and heritage in Didsbury, Mountain View County, and Central Alberta. The first signs that there would one day be a "Days of Yore" was in 2012, when the Sons of Fenrir Vikings became one of our major attractions. After being named Didsbury's Not-For-Profit Society for 2015, it was obvious there was a deep desire for heritage activities, and "Days of Yore" filled the Heritage Day long weekend with the Sons of Fenrir Vikings, Dragons Own Medieval Combat Group, WWII First Special Service Force Re-enactment Group, The Cannoneers, and the 78th Fraser Highlanders Group. Despite a pandemic cancellation in 2020, and a live-streamed video production in 2021, the 2022 festival returned with an in-person event that brought the most people we have ever had at "Days of Yore"! And now, 2023's "Days of Yore" is going to be even better, as our living historians are once again, eager to entertain and educate you to cultural traditions, lifestyles, and activities of bygone eras through authentic representation of those times. You'll "Stroll Through the Ages" in our living history village with the Sons of Fenrir Vikings, Dragons Own Medieval Combat Group, Victorian Society of Alberta, Edmonton House Brigade, Yankee Valley Yankees, 10th Battalion (CEF) Commemorative Association (WWI), WWII First Special Service Force Reenactors, Prairie Motor Brigade, and new this year, the Alberta 18th Century Reenactment Group! The Mountain View Arts Society is proud to support arts, culture & heritage in Carstairs, Cremona, Didsbury, Olds, Sundre and the surrounding Central Alberta communities between Red Deer and Calgary. 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.
