Monthly Guild Meeting/40th Anniversary

🔥 The Western Canadian Blacksmith’s Guild 40th Anniversary Celebration 🔥

Join us July 10–12 as we celebrate 40 years of blacksmithing, friendship, and craftsmanship!

🏕️ Camping on site (no hookups)

🔥 Campfires, camaraderie, and a weekend full of smithing activities

📅 Friday, July 10

• Informal meet and greet in the evening

• Camping on site

• Hot dogs and smokies around the campfire

• BYO food and drinks

📅 Saturday, July 11

• Breakfast (7:00–9:00 AM, BYO food)

• Activities and demonstrations (10:00 AM–12:00 PM)

• Lunch on your own (12:00 PM)

• More activities, demos, and smithing (1:00–6:00 PM)

• Catered dinner at 6:00 PM in the Service Building featuring pulled pork, chicken, and baked potatoes

• 40th Anniversary Pie & Birthday Cake

• Evening socializing and campfire fun

Throughout the weekend:

⚒️ Blacksmithing demonstrations

⚒️ Open smithing

⚒️ Friendship Chain

⚒️ Iron in the Hat

⚒️ Level 1 Journeyman Tent

⚒️ And much more!

🎉 Bring a cotton T-shirt to have a special 40th Anniversary logo applied to it.

🥮 Every attendee will receive a commemorative stamped coin featuring our 40th Anniversary logo.

📅 Sunday, July 12

• Free to stay and visit

• Farewell and thank-yous at 12:00 PM

💲 Registration:

• $60 per person with RSVP

• $75 at the door

📧 To RSVP, email albertablacksmiths@gmail.com

Whether you’ve been with us for decades or are brand new to the forge, come celebrate 40 years of blacksmithing, friendship, and community with us. We look forward to seeing old friends, making new ones, and sharing a memorable weekend around the anvil and the campfire.

See you there!