Friday, July 3, 2009 | CBC News
About 300,000 people lined downtown Calgary’s curbs and office highrise windows to take in the annual Stampede parade Friday morning.
Led by TV celebrity contractor Mike Holmes on a white horse, more than 40 floats and marching bands joined the procession that started at Sixth Avenue and Third Street S.E. and travelled west, turning south down 10th Street S.W. and then east on Ninth Avenue S.W., ending on Fourth Street S.E.
The annual parade, which was first held in 1912, kicks off the 10-day Calgary Stampede, which celebrates the cowboy way of life.
Read at source: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/07/03/calgary-stampede-parade.html
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