Hunting & Shooting · Alberta
Alberta's trappers' association runs a training centre, trapping supply store and fur depot, with well-reviewed courses from beginner workshops to a week-long advanced trapline course and hide tanning.
The Alberta Trappers Association combines a training centre, a trapping supply store and a fur depot in one building, and visitors describe it as clean, friendly and well organised. Staff are repeatedly called knowledgeable and easy to talk to.
The courses get the most attention. Reviewers mention hands-on introductory courses for new trappers, a seven-day advanced course spent on a working line setting marten and fisher boxes, footholds and snares, under-ice beaver and muskrat sets, and learning to skin and board furs. Two-day traditional and brain-tanning workshops for fox and other hides also get enthusiastic reviews for their instructors.
Families like the youth camps, which kids reportedly look forward to every year. For supplies, several trappers say it's the place to go in the province.
Several of the ratings on the page are the association's own replies rather than visitor reviews, and one negative review is an objection to trapping itself rather than the service. Check the website for course dates, as workshops run on a schedule.
Summarised from visitor reviews on Google Maps. Based on 25 Google reviews. Details change — confirm hours, prices and bookings with Alberta Trappers Association directly.
