2010 AGPA Events


The AGPA hosts 4 events per year.

The Annual General meeting is held in late February. The Club reviews the previous years business, elects the execuitive and directors, discusses any new business and firms up the activities for the current year.

The Spring Breakout takes place in early June at Prospectors Point on the bank of the North Saskatchewan River across from the town of Devon. The club obtains special permission from the town of Devon to allow club members to overnight camp at Prospectors Point.

Activities include: gold panning competitions for beginner and professional panners, sluice box competition, claim staking, metal detecting, novality events, and a great chicken dinner. The top 3 winners of the professioinal competition are invited to qualify for Edmonton's Capital Ex gold panning competition, as well as an invitation to compete in the gold panning competition at Taylor British Columbia.

In early September the club members get together at Prospectors Point for a corn roast. This outing allows members to show off their sluice boxes and other inventions they have created to find that elusive, gold colored metal.

In November, the club sponsors the Gold Dust Dinner. This is also a "Show us what you got event". Members bring their gold, gems stones, anything they have collected or worked on over the summer. There are prizes for categories such as pictures, gold displays, rock displays, jewellery, and metal detector findings.

The club also publishes a newsletter issued 4 times a year,

Annual General Meeting February 2010

See the Winter Newsletter for meeting minutes and additional information

Spring Breakout June 2010

Panning, Sluice, and Metal detecting competitions - The competitions will be held on the Devon Bar, on the North Saskatchewan River under the Devon bridge

Corn Roast September 2010

Panning, Sluice, and Metal detecting competitions - The competitions will be held on the Devon Bar, on the North Saskatchewan River under the Devon bridge

Gold Dust Dinner November 2010

See newsletter for details

Other Goldpanning Competitions

Goldpanning Competitions start in May and wrap up on the last weekend of August. It`s great fun for kids of all ages. Plan to include at least one of the other competitions in this years summer vacation plans. A list of all the events can be found on The Canadian National Goldpanners Association web site Goldpanners