Celebrating 125 Years of CPR Swiss Guides in Canada (1899-2024)

” The love of the mountains is a thing that is very hard to explain” Ed Feuz Jr, Swiss mountain guide and resident of Edlweiss Village

Celebrations

SATURDAY OCT. 5 | 3:00PM – 6:00PM | CIVIC CENTRE | 806 10TH AVE S, GOLDEN COMMEMORATION & CELEBRATION EVENT
3:00PM – 4:00PM | REMARKS & MUSIC
Dr. Ilona Spaar, Founding Member of Swiss Edelweiss Village Foundation, Historian
Thomas Schneider, Consul General of Switzerland Vancouver
Ron Oszust, Mayor of Golden, BC
Musical Performance by Daryl Caswell, Alphorn
4:00PM – 4:20PM | BREAK
4:20PM – 6:00PM | MUSIC & PANEL
Musical Performance by Edmonton Swiss Men’s Choir – Canadian Men’s
Choir with a Swiss Flair
Panel: Stories, Memories, Legacies: 125 years of Swiss Mountain
Guides in the Rockies
Stefanie Wunderlin, Consulate General of Switzerland Vancouver, moderator
Rudi Gertsch, Swiss Mountain Guide, Golden, BC
Dr. D.L. Stephen, Author and former client of legendary Swiss Mountain
Guide Edward Feuz Jr., Calgary, AB
Elizabeth Kundert-Cameron, Director Archives&Special Collections, Whyte
Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB
Joanne Sweeting, Executive Director Tourism Golden, BC