08/24/2026
🌲🇨🇦 ✅ TIMBER FESTIVAL 2026! ✅🇨🇦🌲
What a weekend.
Our first Timber Festival has officially completed, and before we start looking toward next year, we want to recognize the incredible people who helped make these 3 days possible.
To every person who walked through the gates, brought their family, explored the Timber Forest, watched the demonstrations, listened to the music, supported our vendors, shared a story, volunteered their time or simply stopped to say hello…
THANK YOU. 🙏🌲
This festival was built by a community.
🌲 OUR VENDORS & PARTICIPANTS
A huge thank-you to:
Delon - UNCLE DADS
Assuntas - ASSUNTAS GRILL
Wyatt & Kayla - FROSTY TRAILS
Mike & Debi - CLIMBING HIGH SUPPLY
Brett & Elton - SPI INSPECTIONS
Lady Wolf - WOOD CARVING
Laura - SOLISTICS SPARKLE
Johanne & Vern THE BIRD SHED
Rick & Joie with LittleBigBear.ca - Official Pro Carvers
Brian - Gillfor Supply
Jimmy - Lineman.ca
Thank you for believing in a first-year festival and bringing your businesses, skills, products and personalities to our community.
🙌 OUR VOLUNTEERS
There simply would not have been a Timber Festival without the people who rolled up their sleeves and helped make it happen.
A huge thank-you to Howard, Jenna, Laurel, Victor, Nancy, Jim, and the many others who stepped in throughout the weekend.
Whether you helped for an hour or worked beside us all weekend, we noticed and we appreciated it.
🇨🇦 OUR SPONSORS
A special thank-you to:
Martin with Minchau Lumber
Quantum Quonsets
Blaine Hill in Silver Beach
Lineman Canada
Your support helped turn an idea into something people could actually walk into and experience.
🪵 OUR SUPPORTERS & SUPPLIERS
Thank you to:
Blair at UFA
Falun Co-op
Garrett at Hayduk Lumber
Martin at Minchau Lumber
Mundare Sausages
Loveneesh at Beatific Accounting
Long & McQuade
Canlog (Canada Loggers Association)
Foresters Association
Serene - Photographer
And many others
Every contribution, materials, supplies, advice, services and support, helped us build this weekend.
🎶 THE MUSIC
Thank you to the musical talent that brought the festival to life:
Trevor & Bob with Blackpool
Tom Serling
DJ Rocko
Music has a way of bringing people together, and you gave our first Timber Festival its soundtrack. 🎶🌲
⭐ SPECIAL GUEST
We were also honoured to welcome Dakota House, known from North of 60, and his Going MILES Foundation.
Thank you for spending time with our community and being part of our inaugural festival.
❤️ OUR COMMUNITY
A very special thank-you to our community members, firefighters and representatives from the County of Wetaskiwin, including Rick, Barry, Ian, Carol, Ken, Bill, Amber, Vero, Mariana, Abby, Shae, and the many others who came out, participated, shared knowledge and encouraged us along the way.
And from the organizers, Jimmy & Tat, thank you to everyone who trusted the vision enough to show up for year one.
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🌲 AND THEN WE LEARNED SOMETHING THAT MADE THIS FESTIVAL EVEN MORE MEANINGFUL.
During this journey, we began learning more about the history of the very land where Timber Festival is being built.
The property was once connected to the area’s logging history, a place where logs coming from the Winfield area were brought across the lake, staged on the property and then transported by horse toward Millet along Highway 616.
And Highway 616 had a name that suddenly made everything feel like it had come full circle:
TIMBER ROUTE.
Seeing the original photographs and hearing the stories of the people who worked this land changed how we look at this property.
Timber Festival isn’t just going to celebrate today’s trades.
We also want to preserve the story of the people who came before us.
As we continue developing the festival grounds, we plan to preserve and recognize this history, the loggers, timber workers, families, locations and stories that helped shape this community.
One of our future plans is to establish a Timber Lookout, a lookout point inspired by a traditional lookout tower, where visitors can see historical photographs, read the stories of the workers and learn about the timber and logging history of this land and surrounding communities.
We also loved hearing from local families who had old photographs, stories from the logging and timber era in this area. We revived the 50 year Mulhurst history book and we look forward to working with our community members to create the next 50 years. This history deserves to be recorded and passed down.
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🏆 AND NOW WE BUILD TOWARD 2027.
Our next chapter will include building out the official competition and continuing to work alongside our trades, businesses and community to make Timber Festival bigger and better each year.
This first year taught us a lot.
It also showed us that there is something very special worth building here.
To our vendors, volunteers, sponsors, suppliers, performers, tradespeople, special guests, neighbours, families, friends and every person who attended:
THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THE FIRST TIMBER FESTIVAL.
When we look back years from now, these photographs will always remind us where it started.
Year One. 🌲
See you in 2027. 🇨🇦🪵❤️
Jimmy & Tat
Timber Festival Organizers
