Edmonton is reaaaaaaaaaally far from Barrie, ON where the fiance lives but this looks like fun. Is this a new con?
Relatively new, it's been going on since 2012. initial attendees were ~200 (wikifur doesn't give an exact number so it's hard to believe it was exactly 200, I heard it was under that).
Fur-Eh 2017 had 734 attendees. It is a comfortably small but growing convention (folks even had to book at the hotel across the street last year) - the convention space itself is huge with respect to amount of folks attending (hotel is capable of hosting 5K+ people), but I think every other hotel in this city is too small or amenities just aren't there for it.
There are two mini-cons here as well (one in Calgary - the Fur-Eh Christmas party; another in Red Deer RDMC - "Red Deer Mini Con") -- those are also hoppin'.