Market at Red Deer wraps up 56th season<\/p>\n
Published 10:59 am Saturday, October 10, 2026<\/p>\n
Red Deerians braved some chilly temperatures and light snow to take in the final Red Deer outdoor market of 2026.<\/p>\n
The Market at Red Deer wrapped up its 56th season on Saturday, Oct. 10. Patrick Moffat, who co-manages the market alongside his sister Fiona, said there was a notable increase in vendors this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re up about 10 per cent from last year,\u201d said Moffat.<\/p>\n
\u201cCOVID hurt every market. We lost about half of our vendors. We\u2019ve been coming back slowly every year. We\u2019re seeing more and more people come.\u201d<\/p>\n
The market was originally started in the 1970s by Dennis Moffat, father of Patrick and Fiona.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been here for multiple generations, but there are a lot of people who are moving to Red Deer and they don\u2019t know we exist yet. We get people every week learning about the market. \u2026 We\u2019re gaining traction every year, which is nice to see,\u201d said Patrick Moffat.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best thing about the market is watching the crowd grow and build. People start coming and you hear the talking. You hear the laughing. That\u2019s the beauty of the market.\u201d<\/p>\n
For years it was held in downtown Red Deer, but moved to Red Deer Polytechnic in 2023. Patrick Moffat anticipates speaking with RDP officials over the winter about bringing the market back to the post-secondary institution\u2019s main campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a great partnership over the past four year,\u201d said Patrick Moffat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such a wonderful place to be. The market brings attention to them and at the same time, they\u2019re running events here that bring attention to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patrick added that they will make a big effort to draw even more people to the market in the years ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the place to be on a Saturday morning. This is the spirit of Red Deer, so to speak,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
For more information on the Market at Red Deer, visit www.reddeermarket.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Market at Red Deer wraps up 56th season Published 10:59 am Saturday, October 10, 2026 Red Deerians braved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[901,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-928194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-alberta","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928194","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=928194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}