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Originally Posted by fotze
Someone posted and article a while back about Calgary's history and apparently cowboy stuff isn't even really our 'heritage', it was largely created by Weadick to sell tickets to his stampede. Calgary was always an uppity, less blue collar town, meaning the cowboy thing always has been fake. So the cowboy architecture (that the saddledome isn't really) is a faux homage to a faux heritage.
The monarchy/victorian period existed in London, Calgary cowboy times did not. Why not an homage to our Game of Thrones past, that also did not exist?
Maybe I am misremembering the article.
The saddlethrone.
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Well even if that were true, the fact that Weadick created that theme and it happened a 100 years ago would make it part of our history. The history of cities as young as Calgary aren't going to go back as far as they do in London, no where near as close, but doesn't change the fact that it's part of the history.
But as someone else pointed out, Ranching and Farming is absolutely a part of Southern Alberta's history, not sure how that's deniable. If Weadick was the first to potentially over emphasize it for profit 100 years ago, so be it, doesn't stop it from being true, and if over the past 100 years the city has chosen to embrace it as the culture and and create the Stampede into what it is today, that on it's own warrants merit as history and culture of this city.