About ACE


ACE Communities Overview


WELCOME TO ACE COMMUNITIES!

We invite you to join us as we work to enhance the quality of life in rural Alberta by strengthening community leadership, collaboration, and innovation through recreation, parks, arts, culture and heritage.

ACE Communities – Active, Creative and Engaged Communities –  is an initiative of the...

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ACE Seeking Partner Communities - Apply!

Interested in learning about potential support that is available to improve the quality of life in rural Alberta by developing community leadership and community development in your community?

The Active, Creative, Engaged Communities (ACE) initiative, spearheaded by Alberta Recreation and Parks...

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What is an ACE Community?

Active, creative, engaged communities are reflected in:


  High levels of citizens who are physically and socially active and engaged
  An emphasis placed on creativity, social capital and social cohesion… quality of life
  Communities where people want to live, work, play and visit

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Background and Context

ACE Communities is a direct response to a number of disturbing trends that have, or will have, an impact on the quality of life.

These trends include:
•  An increase in diseases related to inactivity including more than doubled rates of obesity since 1985 leading to diabetes and hypertension...

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