The original public schedule for Wednesday , 6 July was listed as a day off for the royal couple . The unannounced stop was made in Slave Lake , Alberta , where the royal couple toured the town that was partially destroyed by a wildfire in May . Arriving at the town 's airport , the couple met with Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach and the Mayor of Slave Lake , Karina Pillay-Kinnee . They met with emergency services personnel from the fire department , the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the medical response team at Northern Lakes College . At the gym of Northern Lakes College , the couple met with some of the families affected by the fire . The town was in the midst of dealing with flooding of Sawridge Creek . At 1:30 pm , they went back to the Slave Lake Airport and continued on their way to Calgary . They spent the night at the private Skoki Ski Lodge , a National Historic Site near Lake Louise , within the Rocky Mountain-area Banff National Park . Much of the press coverage for this part of the tour discussed the remoteness of the site , which includes only outhouses . No official comment was made on whether it was retrofitted , at least temporarily
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2011 Slave Lake wildfire
2011 royal tour of Canada