Calgary Stampede parade: By the numbers
Friday marks the 107th edition of the Calgary Stampede parade. Here's a preview, by the numbers.
CBC will broadcast Friday's parade on TV and online from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. MT
- CBC will broadcast the parade on CBC TV (LIVE in Alberta only) and online here and at CBCSports.ca from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. MT with the CBC's Doug Dirks and Angela Knight and Heartland's Graham Wardle doing on-the-street coverage.
- CBC will broadcast an encore presentation of the parade on Saturday, July 6, on CBC TV from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. MT.
- live audience of close to 300,000 people.
- The route is the same length as just over 25 Calgary Towers laid end-to-end (4799.99 metres).
- This year's parade will have 112 entries.
- There will be more than 200 horses and over 4,000 people.
- There will be 19 bands and 32 floats, including corporate, not-for-profit, municipal, cultural and horse drawn.
- There will be 6 portable water stations available for spectators along the route.
- In 1912, Stampede visionary Guy Weadick asked 1,800 members of Treaty 7 First Nations to lead the parade.
- 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Guy Weadick's Victory Stampede, held in honour of Canadian soldiers returning from the First World War.
- About two tons of manure will be dropped on the parade route.
- The parade is put on by a committee of 140 volunteers.