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The Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival held every July in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.The ten-day event, which bills itself as "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth", [2] attracts over one million visitors per year and features one of the world's largest rodeos, a parade, midway, stage shows, concerts, agricultural competitions, chuckwagon racing, and First Nations ...
Ponoka Stampede in Ponoka being Canada's largest 7-day Pro Rodeo. Raymond Stampede in Raymond being Canada's first and oldest rodeo, started in 1902. Strathmore Stampede in Strathmore Canada's 3rd largest rodeo. Wildrose Rodeo Finals in Barrhead; Stavely Pro Rodeo in Stavely, Alberta being the world's first indoor rodeo.
GMC Stadium is a 17,000-seat, plus 8,000 more with standing room, stadium in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.It annually hosts the rodeo, the chuckwagon races and the evening grandstand show portions of the Calgary Stampede.
The Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) is the national championship professional rodeo in Canada, currently held in Edmonton, Alberta; the host site from its 1974 inception through 2017, after being held in Red Deer, Alberta, from 2018 through 2023.
Calgary Stampede rodeo champions have won their respective events in one of the largest rodeos in the world; the rodeo is the heart of the Calgary Stampede. [1] With a prize of $50,000 to the winner of each major discipline, it offers one of the richest payouts in rodeo competition. [ 2 ]
Whoop-Up Days is an annual 5-day exhibition and rodeo held in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada organized by the Lethbridge & District Exhibition.. Held during the last full week of August, the event includes a parade through downtown, daily concerts, bull riding, a rodeo, an indoor and outdoor trade show, live-music, a midway, and citywide pancake breakfasts and barbecues.
[28] Annually, the rodeo features one of the nation's largest prize purses—$1.65 million—and accepts the top 12 money-earners from the CPRA rodeo season. Over six days, FloRodeo will capture some of rodeo's top athletes competing through six rounds to determine each of the seven event winners, a high-point, and an all-around champion.
Interior of the Stampede Corral. The Stampede Corral was a multi-purpose venue (ice hockey, professional wrestling, rodeo, tennis) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Located on the grounds of Stampede Park, the arena was completed in 1950 at a cost of C$1.25 million ($15.7 million today) to replace Victoria Arena as the home of the Calgary Stampeders minor professional hockey club (not to be confused ...