History Check Project Lead to Receive Outstanding Achievement Award!
"I was honored just to be nominated." says Sheila Willis. "It shows not only an appreciation of my efforts but the importance of keeping the history of smaller communities alive."
EXCEEDING GOALS: Strengthening Northern Alberta Communities
History Check is Exceeding its Goals & Strengthening Northern Alberta Communities. Site by Site; Story by Story; Listing by Listing Since our launch in October, we have been spreading the word across northern Alberta about this historical, educational & economic development tool created for the region. Our goal was to have 500 downloads [...]
One Volunteer Invests 10,000 Hours into Heritage & Tourism Mobile App
One Volunteer Invests 10,000 Hours into Heritage & Tourism Mobile App There is a movement afoot in northern Alberta - a mobile app that places sites of interest on a map and are found through "Community Menus", "Near Me" functions and by Keyword Search". These Points of Interest or Site Listings cover everything [...]
A Toddler on Steroids
Happy 3rd Birthday to the History Check Concept! A toddler on steroids is a good description of the History Check mobile app. Wow! It seems like yesterday that the meeting where the idea and concept took place. That group included Athabasca Archives , Athabasca Heritage Society, Edmonton & District Historical Society, Smith Community Development Council , Athabasca County [...]
Perspective versus Reality
My Perspective and Reality of Northern Alberta I live in and love northern Alberta. What is my reality in living and loving it here, seems to be so far out of line with some of the comments about the north that I have heard since becoming involved in the History Check app project. To me [...]
2017 – A Year of Progress
2017 - A Year in Review (and a great year it was!) It is hard to believe that a year has gone by so quickly. This time last year we were still struggling with some concept, coding and the finances to get the History Check app out the door. This year we are [...]
Fine Tuning the Process of In-App-Ads
One of the challenges of creating a new and unique things is the processes that go into it that work for everyone. As History Check is a Community Guide as well as a Heritage and Travel app, finding a solution for all businesses was important to us. We have fine-tuned the package for Advertising [...]
Launch of History Check is an Incredible Achievement!
History Check is an Incredible Achievement! Likening the History Check App to the roadside signs of the technological age was part of Evert Poor's speech at the Official Launch of History Check at the Provincial Archives of Alberta on October 4th, 2017.. He spoke in his capacity as a board member of Alberta [...]
FHNAS Website – Spring 2017 Upgrades
Over the past three weeks our Technical Team has made several changes and upgrades to our website. The recent upgrades will allow FHNAS to better feature information on the various municipalities, First Nations, Metis settlements, businesses, and organizations supporting our History Check App project. These recent upgrades and changes to our website include; Improvements [...]
Discover & Explore Northern Alberta with Help of New History Check App – Windspeaker
"Northern Alberta isnt just this vast, vacant landscape. Theres a lot in the north, and its beautiful." by Windspeaker.com Staff Click Here to Read Article