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SAPD InitiativesCalgary Stampede & Exhibition and the Pioneer Shack
In 1955, to celebrate Alberta's 50th anniversary, with the financial assistance of the Rotary Club of South Calgary, the CES replaced the pioneer shack with a modern log building (Rotary House) which was dedicated to the pioneers of Southern Alberta. The SAPD, at the request of the CES, installed in Rotary House certain artifacts of the SAPD which are on loan to the CES. The, SAPD have use of Rotary House during Stampede week to entertain pioneers, their descendants and guests. See details about Parade Breakfast and Pioneer Tea on our Events Calendar. The SAPD have participated in the Stampede Parade since it's beginning in 1912. Decked out in authentic old-time regalia they rode horses or-in Red River carts, wagons and rigs. Eight of these rigs have been restored and are presently on view at the Remington-Alberta Carriage Centre in Cardston, Alberta.
The enlargements were made in Los Angeles through the courtesy of Kodak Canada and Hook Outdoor Advertising. The Society mounted these on a float which won First Prize in the Historic classification. The enlargement of the original photograph can be viewed in the Casino Room of the Big Four Building at the Stampede Grounds.
Research and PublicationsJoan and Clarence Davis, members of our organization have recorded the 1891 Alberta census which has been posted on the Alberta Family History Society website. There are over 11,000 names on the census. As we have researched only approximately 2,000 names of pioneers so far, we have a lot of work to do. SAPD would like to publish a second edition of Family Histories of Southern Alberta in 2005, Alberta's Centennial. The SAPD's Historical Committee is working on a 2nd edition of Pioneer Families of Southern Alberta. They are looking for additional volunteer researchers, (who do not have to be members) to do research, especially in the Glenbow Archives, Public and University libraries. Contact the SAPD Historian. The SAPD has published or assisted in the publication of:
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Pioneers
of Alberta had a great part to play in establishing in 1884 the Calgary
and District Agricultural Society, which is now known as the Calgary
Exhibition and Stampede Limited (CES). In 1923, as a memorial to the
Old Timers, the SAPD built on the Exhibition Grounds a replica of an
authentic Old Timers' cabin, which was known as the "Old Timers'
Shack".
In
1990, SAPD entered a float in the Stampede Parade. SAPD arranged for
two postcards, courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Archives, of photographs
of the first Stampede Parade taken by Milward Marcel in 1912 to be enlarged
to 10' by 20'. The Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Company had brought
Mr. Marcel from San Francisco to photograph Stampede events.
