Red Deer Ghost Collection during the summer.

The Ghost Collection Walking Tour

The Red Deer Ghost Collection Walking Tour is a renowned bronze art collection that helps tell the history of the community.

Ghost collection in Red Deer outside the Library.

Ghost collection statue of kids outside the Recreation Centre.

The Ghost Collection Walking Tour

Scattered through downtown, you’ll find ten life-size statues all created by Alberta artists and depicting some of the city’s most fascinating trailblazers. It is one of the largest life-sized bronze sculpture collections in Canada.

You’ll learn more about Reverend Leonard Gaetz, an early settler and farmer, who in negotiating the first location for Calgary–Edmonton railway bridge (right next to his land as it so happens) – picked the place where the city has grown. You’ll also meet Francis Galbraith (Red Deer’s first Mayor and founder of the Advocate), Francis the pig, Keith Mann (music director and founder of the Red Deer College School of Music), Hazel Braithwaite (suffragette and political candidate), and the latest addition, Julietta Sorensen (who launched the city’s first transit service with her husband Gordon in 1957)

Click to download the Ghost Collection Walking Tour. Start your tour at the Recreation Centre, and the ghosts will guide you through the downtown. As you go, be sure to stop and enjoy the variety of public art and heritage buildings.