July
The 10-day Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, originally called the Calgary Stampede, is
Canada's largest rodeo event, similar to Cheyenne Frontier Days in the United States.

The stampede offers a world-class rodeo competition in saddle bronc and bareback
riding,
steer wrestling, calf roping, and bull riding, as well as a chuck wagon race that carries a
$175,000 prize.

Most of the rodeo events are held in the 130-acre Stampede Park in downtown Calgary,
but there's also a Wild West town called Weadickville (named for Guy Weadick from
Cheyenne, Wyoming, who founded the event in 1912), an Indian Village populated by
representatives of five Indian tribes from the nearby Plains, a Frontier Casino with
blackjack tables and roulette wheels, and agricultural and livestock exhibits.

Full story: https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Calgary+Exhibition+and+Stampede

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