{"id":836370,"date":"2026-07-30T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836370\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:47:12","slug":"heres-everything-open-and-closed-in-edmonton-this-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836370\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s everything open and closed in Edmonton this long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/alberta-general-holidays#jumplinks-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heritage Day<\/a> is coming up this Monday in Alberta, which means folks are getting a long weekend to celebrate. We understand you might be wondering what\u2019s open and closed for the long weekend, so we\u2019re here to help you out.<\/p>\n<p>While Heritage Day is not a statutory holiday or general holiday within the province, it\u00a0is an optional holiday depending on your employer. This holiday honours and celebrates the diverse heritage the province holds, and according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/albertahumanrights.ab.ca\/what-are-human-rights\/education-and-engagement\/events-and-significant-dates\/alberta-heritage-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Government of Alberta<\/a>, the day was officially recognized in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Sneaking up this weekend, we\u2019re here to prepare you for the holiday, alongside what\u2019s going to be open and closed on the Monday. Without further ado, let\u2019s get into things.<\/p>\n<p>OpenClosed<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for ways to celebrate Heritage Day, there\u2019s no better way to do it than by visiting Edmonton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/curiocity.com\/edmonton-heritage-festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heritage Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With over 100 international awards, this Edmonton heritage festival is one of the largest in the world, according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagefest.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to the fest<\/a>. For this whole long weekend, you can experience three days of this multicultural extravaganza. What better way to celebrate the holiday?<\/p>\n<p>Recent posts:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/curiocity.com\/historic-alberta-attractions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Historic Alberta landmarks that have been standing for over a century<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/curiocity.com\/strathmore-medieval-faire-alberta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">You can step into a medieval-inspired world at this small-town Alberta festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=curiocity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-loaded alignnone size-full wp-image-254369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Keep-up-with-your-city.-Add-Curiocity-as-a-Preferred-Source-on-Google-e1779889457233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"851\" height=\"199\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-loaded \" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785433632_25_Screenshot-2025-07-07-090847.png\" alt=\"Alyssa Gallardo\" title=\"Alyssa Gallardo\"  \/>Alyssa Gallardo<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa is a Staff Writer for Dished and Curiocity Edmonton. She\u2019s a big fan of everything entertainment, and can always be seen running around the city going from concert to concert.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/curiocity.com\/author\/alyssa-gallardo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heritage Day is coming up this Monday in Alberta, which means folks are getting a long weekend to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-836370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}