The Canada Day weekend in northern Alberta was also a rather fiery one. 

As of Tuesday evening, 62 wildfires were burning in the province, including about 20 that are out of control.

Seventeen fires were concentrated in the High Level forest area, and two were in the Fort McMurray region. 

Melissa Story, a wildfire information officer with Alberta Wildfire, said thunderstorms have sparked some of the fires in northern Alberta. 

"So, we are responding to a number of lightning fires that have started…