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The Recreation, Parks, and Culture department was formed in 1995 as an administrative department overseeing the Recreation, Culture, Parks, and Projects sections at the City of Red Deer. The Recreation, Parks, and Culture department reports to the Community Services division.

The Danish Canadian National Museum Society originated as a committee of the Danish Heritage Society of Dickson. During the 1992 Danish-Canadian Conference, it was mandated to form as a separate society with headquarters at Dickson and Spruce View, Alberta, in a district that had been heavily settled by Danish immigrant farmers. Its objective was to establish the Danish Canadian National Museum in the former Dickson High School Dormitory. By 2002 the museum, with a garden and archives, was operating

The Danish Heritage Society of Dickson was formed in 1985 and incorporated in 1989 at Dickson, Alberta, in a district that had been heavily settled by Danish immigrant farmers. Its objective was to restore and operate the Christiansen General Store there as a museum. The museum opened in 1991, and was visited in that year by Queen Margarethe of Denmark

Sussex Gerard de Wilton, (1869-1939), was a career cavalry officer, attaining the rank of captain in the Royal Scots Greys. About 1895, he married Edith Juliet Hughenden-Holloway (1871-1955), who had been a Home Nurse in India (1887-1888). They had one child, Edith Doreen de Wilton (1898-1968). After his retirement, the family immigrated to the Hill End district near Red Deer, Alberta in 1903. In 1907 they homesteaded at Hardisty, Alberta. In 1915, Sussex and his wife returned to England. The following year Edith (Mrs. de Wilton) was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel in the Women's Volunteer Corps, which later became the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. By 1918, she was the principal at the Agricultural Tractor Section School at Barrow Green. Edith Doreen de Wilton was born in Ropley, Hampshire, England, on 25th March 1898 to Sussex Gerald de Wilton, (1869-1939) and Edith Juliette Hughenden-Holloway (1871-1955). Just after her seventeenth birthday, Edith married Herbert Warren Cluff of Hardisty, but the marriage was very short lived. In the summer of 1915, she left Alberta and took the stage name Olive de Wilton and joined several touring companies which played in Eastern Canada and in New York State. She was the common law spouse of William Henry Pratt (Boris Karloff) from 1915 to 1919. They were not able to make the marriage "legal' because of the de Wilton's short lived liaison with Cluff. In 1919, she returned to England and became a minor player and business manager with several acting companies. By 1925, Olive had married fellow actor Richard Meadows-White (ca. 1905-1973) and they had one child: Rosalind Edith Charlotte Meadows-White (1929-?). They founded the Northern Repertory Theatre (1925-1929), which collapsed after the couple separated. Between 1939 and 1951, Olive moved between Canada and England to teach drama as well as to direct and act in several plays. In 1952 Olive moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she was involved in Montreal Repertory Theatre, acted on local English radio and television, and wrote for the National Film Board. By 1966, Olive had taken up residence in Lacombe, Alberta. She died in 1968 in Lacombe and is buried in the local cemetery.

Edith Doreen de Wilton was born in Ropley, Hampshire, England, on 25th March 1898 to Sussex Gerald de Wilton, (1869-1939) and Edith Juliette Hughenden-Holloway (1871-1955). Just after her seventeenth birthday, Edith married Herbert Warren Cluff of Hardisty, but the marriage was very short lived. In the summer of 1915, she left Alberta and took the stage name Olive de Wilton and joined several touring companies which played in Eastern Canada and in New York State. She was the common law spouse of William Henry Pratt (Boris Karloff) from 1915 to 1919. They were not able to make the marriage "legal' because of the de Wilton's short lived liaison with Cluff. In 1919, she returned to England and became a minor player and business manager with several acting companies. By 1925, Olive had married fellow actor Richard Meadows-White (ca. 1905-1973) and they had one child: Rosalind Edith Charlotte Meadows-White (1929-?). They founded the Northern Repertory Theatre (1925-1929), which collapsed after the couple separated. Between 1939 and 1951, Olive moved between Canada and England to teach drama as well as to direct and act in several plays. In 1952 Olive moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she was involved in Montreal Repertory Theatre, acted on local English radio and television, and wrote for the National Film Board. By 1966, Olive had taken up residence in Lacombe, Alberta. She died in 1968 in Lacombe and is buried in the local cemetery.

Margaret Dixon, 1905-1972, was born in the Horn Hill district near Red Deer, Alberta to Robert Dixon and Emily Harding Dixon, recent immigrants from Durham, England. She was educated in Penhold and at the University of Alberta; she was a teacher at the Raven and Markerville schools in central Alberta. In 1933, Margaret Dixon was left a quadriplegic after an accident. She learned to write, paint and knit by mouth. She died in Red Deer and is buried in the Horn Hill Cemetery.

Herbert Earle, 1884-1975, was born in England. He studied art and design at the Bolt Court Institute of Lithographic Art in London and qualified as a master engraver. In 1909 he married Adeliza Rhoda Wheatley, and they had six daughters, Ruby (McMullin), Eva (Clapham), Doris (Curtis), Louise (Sales), Lucy (McGee), and Adela (Anderson). He served with a militia regiment in London, and served in Burma during the First World War. After his discharge in 1920 he joined his wife and family, who were already living in Calgary, Alberta, and bought The Engraving Company there. He was accomplished as an engraver, calligrapher, illustrator, and graphic designer. He was also active in the theatrical scene in Calgary, and taught theatre arts at the Banff School of Fine Arts.

The Friends of Red Deer Composite High School Association was incorporated at Red Deer, Alberta in 1987. Its purpose was to perpetuate the involvement of those who had attended the school and develop interest in its history. It has organized reunions of the school's alumni and collected historical material.

The Friends of Sunnybrook Farm Museum operates and administers the Sunnybrook Farm Museum in Red Deer, Alberta. The Society manages the collections and buildings at the Sunnybrook Farm site. On behalf of the Society, the Sunnybrook Farm Museum acquires, manages, preserves and makes accessible artifacts that represent rural life in Central Alberta, circa 1880-1950.

The collection is displayed and stored in historic and specially constructed buildings on the original Bower farm site within the City of Red Deer. This site was initially operating under the name Bower Homestead Museum prior to renaming as Sunnybrook Farm Museum in 1989. Agricultural and rural history is presented to the public through displays, guided tours, special events, day programs, and an educational component with a curriculum-recognized school program, primarily during the summer months.

There are close connections between Sunnybrook Farm, the Red Deer & District Museum Society, and the Museums Management Board. The proposal to develop a "Homestead Museum" on the Norman Bower property was initiated by the Museums Management Board. After it was started, the president of the Red Deer & District Museum Society was an automatic member of the Society Board of Directors. As well, prior to June 2012 the Red Deer & District Museum Society was the legal owner of the land, buildings, and all artefacts collected until 1996 at Sunnybrook Farm.