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The most recent pub to shut is the Campaign for Real Ale -listed Crown and Anchor which is housed in an 18th Century building.

Flames and Oilers fans are equally prevalent in Red Deer and used to gather to watch playoff games at the Crown and Anchor, a since-closed bar with a line drawn down the middle to separate supporters of both teams.

Pop-up bars dot the festival’s dirt trail in the form of standalone taverns, each constructed of wood and bearing a name like the Crown and Anchor or the End of the World.

Rick Murray, the general manager of the Crown and Anchor, a beachside inn that houses bars and nightclubs, says it is part of the community’s DNA to be “very, very responsible” in a health crisis.

Its tale of a woman unmoored — “Crown and anchor me / Or let me sail away” — was “a metaphor for the actual situation for women at the time,” she told author Michelle Mercer in the 2009 book “Will You Take Me as I Am.”