This building used to be the Margo Fournier Centre. The name will re-locate to the arts centre near City Hall. (file photo)

By Susan McNeil

Recognizing Community Odols

New names for old places in Prince Albert

Aug 14, 2023 | 4:51 PM

Two places in Prince Albert may be renamed after city councillors were unanimous in their support of the ideas.

They met on Monday for an executive committee meeting where they agreed on naming the Crescent Heights Football Field in the Thomas Settee Park Wendell Whitter Field and the Arts Centre near City Hall after Margo Fournier.

These motions still need to be approved at an upcoming council meeting.

Renaming the football field is being done at the request of the Prince Abert Minor Football Association, which wanted to acknowledge the hours of volunteer time Whitter gave to the organization.

The renaming would be effective on Sept. 1 of this year and end on Aug. 31, 2032.

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As for the Arts Centre, its new name would be more permanent.

Margo Fournier was a musician and part of the Canadian Air Force Show. She also performed for Canadian and Allied troops here and overseas. Following the end of WWII, Fournier returned home and founded the Prince Albert Boys Choir, which earned national and international acclaim.

Fournier also taught swimming and diving lessons and founded the Music Festival Association. In 1983, she was inducted into the Order of Canada.

The building that used to bear her name was sold to the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) and the city’s council discussed renaming the arts centre in her honour at that time, but nothing was approved.

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susan.mcneil@pattisonmedia.com