Northern Heritage Christmas website offers recipes, crafts, history

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — A Northern Heritage Christmas is a website launched during the pandemic to share recipes, crafts and history with everyone while they weren’t allowed to be together.

Since then, the website has grown to include more recipes and outdoor activities for the Christmas season.

Heather Sjoblom, curator at the Fort St. John North Peace Museum, says the Northern Trails Heritage Society worked together to make the website in 2020.

The society is comprised of museums and people interested in the heritage of the Peace and Northern Rockies regions.

Users can submit their stories or recipes using the “Contact Us” form to grow the website further.

The museum’s curator says they add a little more each year, and a recent addition is the “Christmas Karaoke” section, which has the music and lyrics to holiday songs.

The booklets can be downloaded on the website or picked up at the museum for free.

The latest addition to the website is “Outdoor Fun,” with a spot for Christmas lights and “Sledding and Sliding.”

It is another way users can contribute to the website by adding their sledding spots, though Sjoblom says they can’t guarantee content to be updated right away, as it is done by the society when they have spare time.