Stampede Park returned to Calgary in 1919 to organize the Victory Stampede in honour of soldiers returning from World War I Weadick's festival became an annual event in 1923 when it merged with the Calgary Industrial Exhibition to create the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede.
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Stampede Park's claim was upheld in courts, but he was awarded only $2,750 plus legal fees.
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The most profitable, the 1925 silent film The Calgary Stampede Park, used footage from the rodeo and exposed people across North America to the event.
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The city's population nearly doubled between 1949 and 1956, and Calgary's immigrant population not only embraced the Stampede Park, but encouraged friends and family in their home towns to do the same.
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The 7,500-seat Stampede Park Corral was completed in 1950 as the largest indoor arena in Western Canada.
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The Big Four Building, named in honour of the Stampede Park's benefactors, opened in 1959 to serve as the city's largest exhibition hall in the summer, and was converted into a 24-sheet curling facility each winter.
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The Stampede Park exceeded one million visitors for the first time in 1976.
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The Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Park organization dropped the word "exhibition" from its title in 2007, and has since been known simply as the Calgary Stampede Park.
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Stampede Park officials promised that the event would be staged as planned.
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Community-oriented events held in compliance with Alberta public health orders were organized on the original dates of the Stampede Park, including pop-up drive-throughs offering pancakes and midway food staples, and maintaining the event's fireworks show.
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On May 14, the Stampede Park announced that it did plan to hold an in-person event for 2021, but that the structure of the event would have to be "very different" to comply with whatever public health orders will be in effect by then.
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Decision to go on with the Stampede Park was met with mixed reactions, including concerns that it could become a superspreading event because Alberta's reopening criteria were based only on the first vaccine dose and not being fully vaccinated.
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Parade serves as the official opening of the Stampede Park and begins shortly before 9 am on the first Friday of the event.
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The first Stampede Park parade, held in 1912, was attended by 75,000 people, greater than the city's population at the time.
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The first of its kind in North America, the Stampede Park Ranch operates a breeding program that produces some of the top rodeo stock in the world and supplies rodeos throughout southern Alberta, and as far south as Las Vegas.
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Stampede Park devised the sport to be a new and exciting event for the newly joined Exhibition and Stampede.
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The revenue generated by the auctions, a record $4 million for the 2012 Stampede Park, is considered an indicator of the strength of Calgary's economy.
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Calgary Stampede Park midway has been operated by North American Midway Entertainment, and its predecessor Conklin Shows, since 1976.
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Stampede Park remains at its original location, though attempts were made to relocate.
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In 1964, the Stampede Board made plans to purchase former military land in southwest Calgary near Glenmore Trail and 24 Street and relocate the park there.
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Space concerns remained a constant issue, and a new plan to push northward into the Victoria Stampede Park community beginning in 1968 initiated a series of conflicts with the neighbourhood and city council that persisted for decades.
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Stampede Park has long been a central gathering place for Calgarians and tourists.
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Stampede Park was the only Canadian champion of the first Stampede and became the first person to successfully ride Cyclone, a notorious horse that had thrown over 100 riders during its career.
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The Stoneys famously boycotted the 1950 Stampede Park following a rule change that cancelled a policy giving any Indigenous person free admittance upon showing their treaty card.
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In 1982, the Stampede Park Foundation set up the Young Canadians School of Performing Arts to offer professional training to singers and dancers between the ages of 7 and 19, paid for by scholarships from the Stampede Park organization.
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Stampede Park Showband was created in 1971 to serve as the organization's musical ambassadors.
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The Stampede Park Showriders were created in 1985 as a precision equestrian drill team and colour guard that accompanies the Showband.
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Stampede Park has attempted to balance rodeo tradition against the concerns of animal welfare groups who argue that the sport is inhumane.
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The Calgary Humane Society has found itself at odds with other organizations by choosing to work with the Stampede Park to ensure that stress on the animals is kept to a minimum.
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The Stampede Park altered its policies in 2010 to enforce the rules of the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association.
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Additionally, the Stampede Park was the first rodeo to introduce a no-time penalty for competitors who make a dangerous tackle in the steer wrestling event.
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Several more changes were made in 2011, the rule changes were announced after six animals died at the 2010 Stampede Park and were met with mixed reactions from both cowboys and animal welfare groups.
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One of the deadliest incidents in Stampede Park history occurred in 2005 when, late in a trail ride meant to help celebrate the province's centennial, a group of about 200 horses spooked and in the melee nine horses were killed after they were pushed off a city bridge into the Bow River.
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However, the community and corporate events held during the Stampede Park create social networking opportunities and help newcomers acclimatize to the city.
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The Stampede Park is an important stop for political leaders as part of their annual summer tours of the country, sometimes called the barbecue circuit.
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Size and number of parties each year during Stampede Park is viewed as an indicator of Calgary's economic strength.
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Part of the event's success can be attributed to the close relationship the Stampede Park has often shared with both the civic government and community leaders.
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The Stampede Park operates on city-owned land, pays no property tax on its lease, and typically faces little to no political interference from City Hall.
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Likewise, the Stampede Park has support from the media, which has been accused of providing an inordinate amount of positive coverage to the event while trivializing negative aspects.
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Stampede Park officials estimated in 2009 that the city of Calgary had a gross economic impact of $172.
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Stampede Park officials have made similar claims, arguing that the event is one of Canada's most important tourist attractions.
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Stampede Park cited the friendly and welcoming attitude and festival spirit of the city's populace during the event, which community booster groups export around the world.
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