Canadian Motorcycle Tourism Association
10908-102 St T8V 2X3 Grande Prairie, AB, Canada

We are preparing our bike draw tickets for this year! We are excited to be back. We plan on following all recommended health guidelines. We are not sure what ...this summer holds yet but we plan on finding a way to safely sell tickets, have fun, raise funds for our local community organizations and draw for a Harley- Davidson motorcycle!!! Stay tuned!!!! See more

Our Christmas in July event in Grande Prairie on July 24th will feature....

Hey Alberta....

Advertising until 2022 - $300 We are now accepting business advertisers on the Rumble Alberta maps. We are creating road trip maps that will be live until Marc...h 2022 with specific challenges from May long weekend until September. Advertising on multiple channels until March 2022. More information at www.rumblealberta.com or email Sheila Willis at [email protected] for details and questions.

Challenges in Rumble Alberta will include the history of how communities were named. This presents an advertising opportunity by placing your link and logo on eligible sites for $100 a year. For more info visit https://impacttourism.ca/link-logo

Are you a rider or driver who has a social media following? Are you good with a camera? Interviewing people? If so, send your resume with links to your work and social media sites to [email protected]

Well Alberta - you are first with Rumble Alberta, next comes Rumble Saskatchewan and Rumble Manitoba for 2022 with test events in each province fall 2021. As we build partnerships we intend to host Rumbles in every province possible.

Our Vice President!!!!

Looking very forward to this discussion on TOURISM and growing communities! Join in if you can!

Tomorrow, join Sheila and Patrysha for our first Impact Weekly conversation. Register at http://eepurl.com/hi1xEz

It’s nice to see the variety of places sending in their information to be added to #HistoryCheck this just gets better all the time! You can download at https://HistoryCheck.ca and remember the only correct sign up answers need are user name and password.

Ever wonder how places got their names? You can find that on the #HistoryCheck app. We are about 1/2 way done getting g them added. Download at https://historycheck.ca. User Name and password are the only correct answers needed. #exploreAlberta #AlbertaHistory #placenames #variety

This year we know has been a little bit crazy, so we are introducing a new product! Our Misery card acts as a discount card for 35% off every visit of the seaso...n! Perfect if you're unsure of how many times you'll be able to hit the slopes! Check it out today at www.miserymountain.com/store!

Peter on his new Himalayan!! Come check out our Royal Enfield line-up, guys!

If you believe in, and support, innovative Alberta initiatives that are building up from a grassroots level, here is an opportunity. For $100 annually we will... add your logo and link to a site that is not owned or operated by another organization or business on the History Check - Alberta History & Travel Companion Mobile App Each $100 allows us to add 10 to 20 more free site listings to the app as we build Alberta COVID safe road trips AND support small business and nonprofits through these free listings - or perhaps share more Alberta history. To add your logo to one of the 450 available sites email Sheila Willis at [email protected]

Renee Charbonneau recaps the Wayside Fallen Riders Memorial Service 2020 https://motorcycletourism.ca//wayside-fallen-riders-memori

Bullying Enns & UBAKA Canada host this toy run out of Stony Plain Rotary Park, Sept 13, 2020

Our new Newsletter is out!!!! Make sure that you whitelist us (add us to your contacts list)! It's $25 to be a member and that includes your shot at two amazing members only prizes.... Check out our website!!!! Become a member today!

While Nominations are going on for Canada's MOST Rider Friendly Community Contest, our association has been busy in the background building an Alberta Economic Recovery Event called Rumble Alberta and we have also been working on Veterans Memorial Gardens & Interpretive Centre in Grande Prairie. To that end we are proud to announce that the CMTA are proud owners of the land our facility sits on!!!!! Thanks to the donation of the land by the ANAVETS No. 389 - the land at 10121-93 St, AKA Veterans Memorial Gardens & Interpretive Centre is now owned by the CMTA!

In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at Valley Heights High School in Port Rowan, Ontario , did something not to ...be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. 'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?' She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.' They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said. 'Maybe it's our behaviour.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behaviour.' And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room. The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.' At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned. Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.' By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year in 2006. She is the daughter of a WWII POW. Do you think this is worth passing along so others won't forget either, that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by our Veterans? I did. Let us always remember the men and women of our military and the rights they have won for us.