Additional index words. Fragaria •ananassa, fruit breeding, cultivar, late season 'Valley Sunset', a short-day strawberry (Fragaria •ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier), was commercially introduced in Canada in May 2009 by the Atlantic Food and Horticulture Research Center of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). 'Valley Sunset' produces medium yields of very large, sweet-tasting fruit ripening in the late season offering growers a cultivar to extend the harvest season beyond that of 'Cabot' and 'Bounty'. Origin 'Valley Sunset' is a seedling of a K94-15 • K95-24 cross made under the direction of A.R. Jamieson in 1998 at Kentville, N.S. (Fig. 1). It is the first introduction from a program of crosses begun in 1989 designed to extend the harvest season beyond 'Bounty' (Craig and Aalders, 1972) with improvements in fruit size and firmness. During the mid-1980s, we considered introducing K73-18, a secondgeneration derivative of 'Vesper' (Fig. 1), but despite high yields of large fruit in the