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List Of Canadian Professional Rodeo Association Champions
The following is a complete list of year-end champions for the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA), the sanctioning body for professional rodeo in Canada. In recent times, the CPRA champions have been determined at the Canadian Finals Rodeo in Red Deer, Alberta. Women's all-around champions are determined by the Canadian Girls' Rodeo Association. See here for the inductees of the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame. Contestant Awards All contestants are from Canada unless otherwise noted. All-Around Cowboy * Carl Olson 1945 * Gordon Doan 1946 * Ken Brower 1947 * Reg Kesler 1948 * Bill McLean 1949 * Wilf Girletz 1950 * Reg Kesler 1951 * Bud Van Cleave 1952 * Reg Kesler 1953 * Gordon Earl 1954 * Wilf Girletz 1955 * Dick Nash 1956 * Wilf Girletz 1957 * Brian Butterfield 1958 * Ellie Lewis 1959 * George Myren 1960 * Dick Havens 1961 * Keith Hyland 1962 * George Myren 1963 * Keith Hyland 1964 * Harold Mandeville 1965 * Tom Bews 1966 * Kenny McLean 1967 * Kenny McLean 1968 * Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Professional Rodeo Association
The Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA) is the governing body of professional rodeo in Canada. Its championship event is the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) held every November. History The Canadian Professional Rodeo Organization was founded in 1944. It started when some cowboys joined up to create the Cowboys Insurance Association when each cowboy added $1 to create an insurance fund. Rodeo management matched that amount to increase the insurance fund. A year later in 1945, they renamed the organization the Cowboys Protective Association (CPA). Under the Societies Act, they completed the necessary actions to become an association. This enabled the organization to serve its members in a more general way. They enlisted their first president, Ken Thomson of Black Diamond. They had 160 members in the beginning. Money for fees was high and returns on wins was not. In 1965, the society incorporated under the name, Canadian Rodeo Cowboys Association, which continued until 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Miller (barrel Racer)
Isabella Miller (28 January 1941 – 26 January 2007) was a Canadian rodeo cowgirl, rancher and horse trainer. She was the Canadian barrel racing Champion in 1960 and 1969 and was a 5-time winner of the Canadian All-Around women's title. She was inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2005. Early life Pearl Isabella Hamilton was born on 28 January 1941 in Alberta, Canada to Ruth (née Johnson) and William James Hamilton. She grew up in DeWinton, Alberta, where her parents operated a ranch. Her father had been a bull riding champion in the 1920s and was a chuckwagon driver. Her grandparents manufactured Red River carts in Calgary. Hamilton began learning to ride when she was 2 years old. Hamilton was one of the founders of the Canadian Girls' Barrel Racing Association, which formed in 1957 and was elected as the organization's president for 1959. The goal of the association was to promote women's participation in rodeo and to be allowed to compete in the Calgary Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Rodeo Performers
The following articles contain lists of rodeo performers: * Bull Riding Hall of Fame * List of Calgary Stampede Rodeo Champions * List of Canadian Professional Rodeo Association Champions * List of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Champions * List of Professional Bull Riders Champions * List of ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductees * List of Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame inductees * National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame * PRCA All-Around Champion This is a list of PRCA All-Around Champions. The championship is awarded at the National Finals Rodeo by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to the top All-Around The All-Around is an award given to a rodeo competitor who is most successfu ... * Professional Bull Riders: Heroes and Legends {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodeo performers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodeo In Canada
Rodeo () is a competitive equestrian sport that arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain and Mexico, expanding throughout the Americas and to other nations. It was originally based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States, western Canada, and northern Mexico. Today, it is a sporting event that involves horses and other livestock, designed to test the skill and speed of the cowboys and cowgirls. American-style professional rodeos generally comprise the following events: tie-down roping, team roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, bareback bronc riding, bull riding and barrel racing. The events are divided into two basic categories: the rough stock events and the timed events. Depending on sanctioning organization and region, other events such as breakaway roping, goat tying, and pole bending may also be a part of some rodeos. The "world's first public cowboy contest" was held on July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgil (bucking Horse)
Virgil F13 (born 2008) is a rodeo bucking horse. He is specialized mainly in bareback bronc riding, but is sometimes used in saddle bronc riding. Although born in North Dakota, United States, he has lived most of his life in Alberta, Canada. Virgil is a two-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) Bareback Horse of the Year, as well as a two-time Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA) Bareback Bucking Horse of the Year. He won the award in both organizations in the same years; 2017 and 2018. He was also awarded the Bareback Horse of the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) four times from 2015 to 2018, as well as the Bareback Horse of the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in 2017. He is also the horse that was ridden for the highest-scored bareback ride in PRCA history, which occurred in 2022. Background Virgil was born in 2008, and is estimated to be 14 years old in 2022. Virgil is a grey gelding.''Canadian Rodeo'', ''Bareback Bronc of the Year'', pp. 96. He is the offspring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vancouver Sun
The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. Published six days a week from Monday to Saturday, the ''Sun'' is the largest newspaper in western Canada by circulation. The newspaper was first published on 12 February 1912. The newspaper expanded in the early 20th century by acquiring other papers, such as the ''Daily News-Advertiser'' and ''The Evening World''. In 1963, the Cromie family sold the majority of its holdings in the ''Sun'' to FP Publications, who later sold the newspaper to Southam Inc. in 1980. The newspaper was taken over by Hollinger Inc. in 1992, and was later sold again to CanWest in 2000. In 2010, the newspaper became part of the Postmedia Network as a result of the collapse of CanWest. History The ''Vancouver Sun'' published its first edition on 12 February 1912. The ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Deer Advocate
The ''Red Deer Advocate'' is a daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Published by Black Press, the newspaper was first established in 1901 as the ''Red Deer Echo'', changing its name to ''Alberta Advocate'' in 1903 and ''Red Deer Advocate'' in 1906. Originally it was a weekly newspaper issued on Fridays. The ''Advocate'' now publishes daily, from Tuesday to Saturday as the Monday edition was dropped late in 2016, with the slogan "Central Alberta's Daily Newspaper". The newspaper publishes weekly supplements called ''Central Alberta Life'' (for rural communities), and owns eleven weekly newspapers covering outlying Alberta towns: the ''Bashaw Star'' (Bashaw), ''Castor Advance'' ( Castor), ''Lacombe Express'' (Lacombe), ''Pipestone Flyer'' ( Pipestone), ''Ponoka News'' ( Ponoka), ''Rimbey Review'' (Rimbey), ''Stettler Independent'' ( Stettler) and ''Sylvan Lake News'' ( Sylvan Lake). In addition to printing its own weekly and daily products, the ''Advocate'' presses also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Province
''The Province'' is a daily newspaper published in tabloid format in British Columbia by Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network, alongside the ''Vancouver Sun'' broadsheet newspaper. Together, they are British Columbia's only two major newspapers. Formerly a broadsheet, ''The Province'' later became tabloid paper-size. It publishes daily except Saturdays, Mondays (as of October 17, 2022) and selected holidays. History ''The Province'' was established as a weekly newspaper in Victoria in 1894. A 1903 article in the ''Pacific Monthly'' described the ''Province'' as the largest and the youngest of Vancouver's important newspapers. In 1923, the Southam family bought ''The Province''. By 1945 the paper's printers went out on strike. ''The Province'' had been the best selling newspaper in Vancouver, ahead of the ''Vancouver Sun'' and '' News Herald''. As a result of the six-week strike, it lost significant market share, at one point falling to third place. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayel Robinson
Rayel Robinson (also known as Rayel Little) is a Canadian horse trainer and barrel racing champion. She won the Canadian Barrel Racing Championship in her sport in back-to-back wins in 1990 and 1991, and repeated in 1999 and 2005. She was reigning champion of the Ponoka Stampede in 2005, 2006, and 2007. She trained Tia, the horse who was awarded the Most Heart designation of the Canadian Finals Rodeo in 1991 and 1992 and in a single year had five horses that she trained qualify for the Canadian Finals Rodeo. She was inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2017. Early life Rayel Call was born in 1964 in Redding, California, but moved with her family to 150 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada when she was ten years old. Around the same time, she began competing in barrel racing events. She graduated from Columneetza Senior Secondary School in Williams Lake, British Columbia in 1982. That year, she won all-around cowgirl at the National High School Finals Rodeo, held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Watt (barrel Racer)
Elaine Watt (born 1957) is a Canadian physical education instructor and barrel racer. She was a 3-time Canadian barrel racing champion, in 1978, 1979, and 1982. She was inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2012. Early life Elaine Stewart was born in 1956 in Manitoba, Canada, to Mavis (née Bowler) and Calvin Stewart. She had four siblings, Alvin, John, Colleen, and Carol. Their father raised horses and all of the children helped with farm chores at their home in Saint Pierre, Manitoba. Both of her sisters competed in rodeo events and Carol would later succeed her sister, Elaine, with the Canadian barrel racing title in 1983. She began riding when she was six years old and training in 1967 when her father took her 4-H group to a horse clinic in Manitoba. She trained with Elaine and Jim Hyde and won a junior title in Minnesota in her first competition, which was later that year. Career While training at the Hyde's ranch in Alida, Saskatchewan, Stewart met profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerri Duce
Jerri Duce, also known as Jerri Duce Phillips, (born 1951) is a 9-time Canadian barrel racing champion. She was the first Canadian woman to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo (1975) in the United States and was the first woman inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame (1997). She also performed as a trick rider and stunt rider. She was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and runs a horseback riding school. Early life Jerri Duce was born in 1951 in Claresholm, Alberta, Canada, to Rose M. (née Cisar) and Frank M. Duce. Her father was a rodeo champion, holding the Canadian title for bronc riding in 1945, as well as "best all-around" Canadian cowboy in 1945 and 1946. Her mother was a hairdresser and seamstress, who made all of the costumes for the rest of the family in their rodeo competitions. Along with her older brother Jack and younger sister Joy, Duce began riding at a young age. All three children participated in rodeo. When Duce was 9, her fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina McDougall
Gina McDougall (also known as Gina McDougall Cohoe, 25 June 1927 – 21 May 2014) was a U.S.-born Canadian sculptor, rancher and horse trainer. She was a 2-time Canadian barrel racing champion in 1962 and 1963. The Calgary Stampede and Red Deer Silver Buckle Rodeo commissioned bronzes from her, and she had pieces in the private collections of Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, and Randy Travis. She was inducted into the Calgary Stampede Western Art Show Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2013. Early life Virginia Ann Souther was born on 25 June 1927 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, to Frances Louise (née Merriman) and Norman Gilbert Souther. Her family, which included her brother Jack, immigrated to Canada when Souther was 7 years old. She was raised on the Bar C Ranch, near Morley, Alberta. She married Robert Hall McDougall, a rancher and livestock breeder, and the couple had three children: Sally, Robert Jr., and Jean. They ran a ranch and McD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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