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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 ...
Program for the 1912 Calgary Stampede featuring the four sponsors. The Big Four were the wealthy Alberta cattlemen Patrick Burns, George Lane, A. E. Cross and Archibald J. McLean. [1] Together they founded the Calgary Stampede, as well as other cultural and entrepreneurial activities in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the early years of the 20th ...
The Calgary Public Library (CPL) is a distributed library system featuring 22 branch locations including the Central Library. [1] As of 2012, it is the second most used system in Canada (after the Toronto Public Library ) [ 2 ] and the sixth most used library system in North America. [ 3 ]
1912 – The Calgary Stampede is held for the first time. 1915–18 – The Mewata Armouries are constructed. 1919 - The Victory Stampede was Calgary's second rodeo, honoring the end of the Great War. 1920 - The 103rd Rifles is reorganized as The Calgary Regiment. 1923 – The Calgary Stampede held for the third time and annually since then.
The BMO Centre is a convention centre in Calgary, Alberta. It is located in Stampede Park, which is in the Beltline district south of downtown Calgary. [3] At one million square feet (93,000 m 2), it is the largest convention centre in the city and the largest in Western Canada. [4] Opened in 1981, it was originally known as the Round-up Centre ...
Chief Sitting Eagle was born in 1874 [2] and became heavily involved in the Calgary Stampede, over the years coming to be considered a symbol of the event himself. He died in 1970. He died in 1970. In 1988, a 3.4-metre (11 ft) statue of Chief Sitting Eagle was unveiled in downtown Calgary .
The Calgary Central Library, also known as the Calgary New Central Library (NCL), is a public library in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and the flagship branch of the Calgary Public Library system. The building is located in the Downtown East Village neighbourhood and opened on November 1, 2018, replacing an earlier central branch built in the 1960s ...
As described in a film magazine, [3] Dan Malloy (Gibson), an American cowboy noted as a Roman rider, is in Canada seeking adventure. He finds it in pretty Marie LaFarge (Faire), who loves him and is agreeable to his proposal of marriage, but declines to become his wife because she fears it will break the heart of her father, Jean LaFarge (Faunce), who has ordered the cowboy to keep away from ...