What the 100-year-old Calgary Stampede means to Canada
When one of North America’s biggest festivals was born in 1912, Calgarians had about as little to do with the Wild West as they do today. The cowboy myth was a way to stitch together a disparate crowd of newcomers. For all the yee-hawing, writes Calgary author Gordon Laird, that’s what it remains – social glue for an ever-changing centre of Canadian power
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