Whoop-Up Days

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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About Whoop-Up Days

Whoop Up Days is a yearly non-benefit celebration, show and rodeo held in Lethbridge, Alberta, for five days in the last entire seven day stretch of August. The occasion incorporates a 4-km march through downtown, day by day shows, bull riding, a rodeo, an indoor and open air public exhibition, and stimulation on the free stage, a halfway, Hobby World and citywide flapjack breakfasts. In 2007, a record-breaking participation at the occasion numbered 69,964. The past record was set in 2006 when 67,590 guests went to. The financial effect from the considerable measures to generally $2.5 million spent on occasion activities, local people and 13,000 guests. Holler Up Days happens at the Exhibition Park, which is on the eastern edge of the city.

Lasting structures at the site incorporate a 10,664 m² 114,787 ft² structure complex principle, north, west and south structures, and Saddle Room, Heritage Hall, Pioneer Park, a show off, and a circuit. The main reasonable was hung on 5 October 1897 at the rural grounds in Queen Victoria Park renamed in 1955 to Gyro Park. It included stage introductions, voyaging shows, and steed hustling. In 1904, eight years already the Calgary Stampede, the fundamental enormous scale rodeo was masterminded as a noteworthy part of Whoop-Up Days. In 1912, the festival was moved to its present zone east of Henderson Park.

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