We left Calgary on the 12th and traveled to a nice RV park at Spruce Grove, AB.  We visited the Alberta Aviation Museum, which is located on the old Edmonton City Center airport.  The city decided that the land was too valuable for an airport, so they closed it.  It's going to become low income housing.  The lady at the museum said it probably wouldn't happen in her lifetime, and she wasn't very old.  It was a shame to see it closed, as I had been in there many times and it was very handy.  The airport was ringed with hangars and aviation businesses, and most of the places were empty.

The first picture is of the RV park, still under construction, but very well done.  The next picture is of a Barkley Grow T8P1.  There were only 11 made in Detroit, MI and 5 of them ended up in Edmonton.  They were used mostly on floats.  The next picture is of a DeHavilland Mosquito; it's a flying example, but not being flown.  The next aircraft is a Norseman, a real workhorse about the size between a Beaver and and Otter,  It also is airworthy.  The B-25 was in very good shape; it was used by the RCAF at Edmonton, and the next aircraft was a Vickers Viking amphibian.  It was all wood and fabric, and looked like one would spend a lot of time pumping the bilges.  The last picture is of a pile of snow that the city of Spruce Grove had removed from the streets and piled in a field.  It looked like dirt, but wasn't, and they were using a D-6 Cat to move the top of it so it would melt.  They received lots of snow this winter.  We stayed 2 nights here.  On the 14th, we traveled to Valleyview, AB for an overnight.