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CTV News
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Remember Klondike Days in Edmonton?
Edmonton Watch CTV Morning Live Edmonton's Kim Wynn, Kent Morrison and Cory Edel remember Klondike Days. The annual parade, the midway, and other community events.
Calgary Herald
10-07-2025
- Climate
- Calgary Herald
Braid: Calgary Stampede tops other Canadian summer events by a country mile
Crowds are flocking to the Calgary Stampede. What's new? It's business as usual, a familiar summer week around here. Article content Many veteran Calgarians, I suspect, are so familiar with the annual festival that they don't realize just how big it has become. Article content Article content Stampede is the most successful summer bash in Canada by a huge margin. Article content For popularity in a relatively small market, there may be nothing anywhere to top the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. Article content Article content The Stampede attracted 1.48 million from a metro population of 1.6 million, for a shorter 10-day event. Attendance looks to be even higher this year. Article content Article content Two more comparisons: Article content Edmonton's K-Days, which started oddly as Klondike Days, drew a respectable 742,000 last year. (Edmonton has other excellent summer festivals as well.) Article content K-Days easily outpoints Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition, which had a 2024 attendance of 638,000 (from a local population twice the size of either Calgary or Edmonton.) Article content Article content Toronto and Vancouver nonetheless call their shows 'national.' Maybe we should rename ours the Calgary National Stampede. Article content Article content Even for Calgarians who never go to the midway and the rodeo, Stampede is a larger symbol of the city's identity, style and resilience. Article content In June 2013, floodwater swamped the city's downtown. Article content The damage was devastating to neighbourhoods and businesses. The Stampede grounds and facilities appeared to be out of commission for many months. Article content Water three metres deep covered the rodeo infield. The Saddledome was submerged up to the eighth row of seats. Food facilities were wrecked and power supply to the grounds was threatened.
