The War Years of the 1940s were saluted during the Calgary Stampede. Here, double amputee Private Bill Warren rides in the Calgary Stampede parade on July 14, 1945. Calgary Herald Archives.1940s: Thousands of visitors were accommodated in peoples’ homes through a special visitors’ bureau established in the 1940s.
1944: The Calgary Stampede bought out the Calgary Artificial Ice Rink Company, bringing in Lloyd Turner to manage the Stampede’s arena and hockey interests.1947: Arena director Jack Dillon died and was replaced by Dick Cosgrave, a 10-time chuckwagon racing1948: When the Calgary Stampeders football team won the western championship, a contingent of fans in western wear and cowboy hats went to cheer them on in the Grey Cup final, in Toronto.
A large Brahma bull pushes a barrel in which Stampede clown Jasbo Fulkerson is hiding, as his partner George Mills tries to distract the angry bull at the Calgary Stampede in 1946. Calgary Herald Archives.
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