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It wasn’t until I had kids of my own that I fell in love with the museum

Alongside Earls, Boston Pizza, and The Running Room, Lilydale Foods is one of several national brands to start in Edmonton.  A provincial co-operative, it was created in 1941 to give farmers more control over distribution and provide them with a better share of the retail price.

Lake Beaumaris is one of Castle Downs’ defining features. It was designed as a water management system, to store storm water runoff and avoid overloading the sewer systems downstream. Lake Beaumaris was Edmonton’s first storm water lake, and although there are over 100 similar lakes in Edmonton today, Lake Beaumaris remains the largest.