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Culture

All Folk’d Up Music Festival

The first sign for the All Folk'd Up Music Festival in Montmartre, Saskatchewan

Coming up on its seventh year, the All Folk’d Up Music Festival aims to unite members of the community by sourcing local Saskatchewan talent for their shows. It was founded in 2010 by three Fournier sisters and three Deringer sisters. It has been held in July of every year after that. Growing in popularity every year, the festival sells out at 1000 weekend passes and came close last year, but is aiming for that number come the summer of 2016. The community relies heavily on volunteer support to put the festival on. General, non-serviced camping is available in the park at the price of fifteen dollars per night.

Centre 48

Centre 48 offers a variety of arts and sports classes to the surrounding communities such as: piano, drums, guitar, and kickboxing and yoga. In addition, the centre also offers pre-school. Also for kids, there is: Lego club, craft club, and rhythmic gymnastics. As for education classes, Centre 48 offers a computer education class, a seniors scam prevention and a French class as well. Sometimes, the classes are held in the neighbouring villages instead of just Montmartre.

Tourism

Kemoca Park

Entrance signs to Kemoca Park in Montmartre, Saskatchewan

Named after three communities (including Montmartre), Kemoca Park serves as a multipurpose area for Montmartre and surrounding areas. The three communities are: Kendal, Montmartre, and Candiac, and by using the first two letters of each village’s name, the moniker was chosen. In the spring of 1970, Kemoca Regional Park was ready to open. At that time, the park contained: six non-electrical campsites, a swimming pool (with an old school house being used for the change room), a nine-hole sand green golf course (with an unused school house for a clubhouse), four softball diamonds, one baseball diamond, and a 400 metre track with a concrete curb. The main adversities that faced the construction of the park were the lack of certainty in funding and a fire that ravaged the park in 1984. The fire came at a time where the provincial government was doubtful of the status of the park as a Regional Park because of its proximity to Montmartre. In surpassing its difficulties, the park has become a cultural centre to Montmartre and the surrounding communities. Both 30 amp and 50 amp service is now offered at their 52 camping sites while a playground now stands near a multi-purpose shelter. Many improvements to the sports facilities at the park have contributed to its success in the community, such as: the addition of covered dugouts and a batting cage, beach volleyball courts, basketball area, a 1.5 km walking trail, a disc golf course, improvements to the pool area, and an equipment shed.

The Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower in Montmartre, Saskatchewan

The village of Montmartre has recently re-branded itself as the “Paris of the Prairies” in order to better represent the town. The Eiffel Tower in Montmartre completed construction in 2009 and is an exact replica at 1/38th of the size of the original. It is made entirely of steel.