FHNAS Newsletter July 2016 ~ Online Tour Update We have seen the first of many mock-ups for the History Check Photo Courtesy of Athabasca Archives #11542 app/website and are very excited about how it is laid out. Once the Collaborating to Promote Northern Alberta History mock-ups are complete it will move into the coding stage. Exciting times are ahead for Northern Alberta. FHNAS has raised the funds & through, Kodiak Studies, has contracted a Website/App development team to begin building the Online Self Guided Tour. ~ The approach of FHNAS is to collaboratively promote the history & Our Website tourism opportunities of Northern Alberta on one site. It is not our Our website, www.fhnas.ca , is intent to replace existing websites & marketing programs but to be a online, however until it is conduit to lead guests & residents to these places. integrated into the Online Tour Northern Alberta attracts 6% of Alberta’s tourism market & we are only the front page will be confident that this collaborative approach, combined with social media accessible. You may visit the page promotions, will increase this number & help the economies of Northern to find links to various forms and Alberta grow & flourish. other information. Thank you for your patience. We would like to thank the following for contributing organizations for allowing us to reach this stage of the overall goal. ~ MD of Lesser Slave River MD of Opportunity Municipal Districts Saddle Hills County Mackenzie County County of Grande Prairie Smoky Lake Region If you have not yet been contacted about the Online Tour & would like Edmonton & District Historical Society more information or a Tri-Council Regional Wellness Advisory Committee presentation, please contact Sheila Willis. We would be happy to Travel Alberta collaborate with you. Historical Point of Interest Sponsorships Now Available ~ This sponsorship program is designed for the businesses with one or two locations. Each historical Point of Interest can be sponsored for $100. Corporations Your business name will appear as the sponsor for that Point of Interest A limited number of Corporate and will link to your website, or to our Sponsorship page where your Sponsors will be chosen to have contact information and a brief description of your business will appear. their Northern Alberta locations Please contact us for an application form. placed on our map. Their logos, with a link to their website will be Friends of Historical Northern Alberta Society used. Alberta & Canadian companies will be first choices. FHNAS – PO Box 118 – Smith, AB T0G 2B0 Please contact us if interested. Call or Text 780-805-1390 or email [email protected] .