| Whoop-Up Days | |
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| Genre | Exhibition,rodeo,festival |
| Dates | 5 days, starting on the Tuesday of the last full week of August. 2024: August 20–24 |
| Locations | Lethbridge,Alberta, Canada |
| Founded | 1897; 128 years ago (1897) (Exhibition) 1904; 121 years ago (1904) (Rodeo) |
| Attendance | 40,178 (2024) 77,263 (record – 2023)[1] |
| Organized by | Lethbridge & District Exhibition |
| Website | www |
Whoop-Up Days is an annual 5-dayexhibition androdeo held inLethbridge,Alberta,Canada organized by theLethbridge & District Exhibition.
Held during the last full week of August, the event includes a parade throughdowntown, daily concerts, bull riding, a rodeo, an indoor and outdoor trade show, live-music, amidway, and citywidepancake breakfasts andbarbecues.
In 2023, a record-breaking attendance at the event numbered 77,263. The previous record was set in 2007 when 69,964 visitors attended. Economic impact from the fair amounts to roughly $2.5 million spent by event operations, locals and visitors.[2]
The first fair was held on 5 October 1897 at the agricultural grounds in Queen Victoria Park (renamed in 1955 to Gyro Park). It included stage presentations, travelling shows and horse racing.
In 1904, eight years before theCalgary Stampede, the first large-scale rodeo was staged as part of Whoop-Up Days.
In 1912, the festival was moved to its current location on the Exhibition grounds east ofHenderson Park.
There were cancellations in 1917–18 & 1942–45. A virtual event was held in 2020 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.
Whoop-Up Days takes place atExhibition Park, which is on the eastern edge of the city next toHenderson Park. Permanent structures at the site include a 10,664 m2 (114,787 ft2) pavilion complex (main, north, west and south pavilions, and Saddle Room), Heritage Hall, Pioneer Park, a grandstand, and a racetrack.
The name “Whoop-Up Days” is derived from the nearby national historic siteFort Whoop-Up, which was a whisky trading outpost and hub of illicit activities in the mid-19th century before the arrival of theNorth-West Mounted Police in the area that is nowLethbridge.
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