Time travel has never been so easy or so tasty. The costumed historical interpreters are all set to take your taste buds back to the past with a special annual food event to be held tomorrow.
The Father Lacombe Chapel is the unlikely location of gustatory delights as it hosts Taste of the Past. People can learn about St. Albert’s history in the most delicious way possible.
Interpreter Jasmine Peachey is a British Columbia native who said that she was drawn to this area because she is studying history and French. St. Albert is the perfect merger of both of those subjects, she thought.
“The history here spoke to me and, as well, because it does have such French history, it was a great opportunity to practice my French and brush up on history from another part of Canada,” she enthused.
This is her first summer working at the oldest standing building in the province and she loves it.
“I think it’s a shining example of how the West was settled and came to be the way we know it. I mean, all of St. Albert grew up around this chapel,” she said of the provincial historic site.
The event tomorrow runs from noon to 4 p.m. Attendees can sample foods including pemmican and borscht all from the area’s historic past. Peachey added that there will also be homemade ice cream, which people can “crank out themselves” if they so choose.
“It’s so good!”
Admission is by donation to the chapel or with a non-perishable food item for the St. Albert Food Bank.
The interpreters will also be offering tours of the site so that visitors can learn more about our collective history while they enjoy the food.
The historic chapel was built by Father Albert Lacombe and local MĂ©tis in 1861. It helped to give rise to the St. Albert Mission but was eventually moved from its original site close by.
People can learn more about the chapel at history.alberta.ca/fatherlacombe. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily until Labour Day.
