Stompede
- Volunteer Committee
- 13 directors and 4 executive
- Not-for-Profit Organization
- Profits are put back into the community, for example: Evergreen Park improvements/projects
- Promote local athletes
- Showcase local athletes at home
- First stop of WPCA tour; Local drivers
- CPRA and PRCA approved
History
Formed in 1977, Grande Prairie Stompede was originally called Grande Prairie Western Shows Ltd. The history of the annual Grande Prairie Stompede has paralleled that of the city itself. Back in the mid 1970s the city was full of dreamers. Grande Prairie was just getting rolling during a boom time that would last several years.
Everyone had big dreams, including the people who put their heads together to come up with the idea of an annual western bustout over 30 years ago. There were businessmen in three-piece suits, cowboys and longhaired leftovers from the heady hippie days of the late l960s at that first meeting in a building near the old fairgrounds by the water towers on the city’s northeast corner. It was a strange mix, but they all had a common goal in mind – putting on a big-time event to showcase Grande Prairie and Alberta’s chuckwagon drivers.
