George Guy Weadick (February 23, 1885 – December 13, 1953) was an American cowboy, performer and promoter. Today, he is best known as the founder of the Calgary Stampede in Alberta, Canada. He was married to famed cowgirl, Florence LaDue. Weadick was the first to be inducted in the Builder category in the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame.
George GuyWeadick (February 23, 1885 – December 13, 1953) was an American cowboy, performer and promoter. Today, he is best known as the founder of the...
Agricultural Society held its first fair. In 1912, American promoter GuyWeadick organized his first rodeo and festival, known as the Stampede. He returned...
with J. Ellison Carroll and the IXL Wild West Show. In 1912, he helped GuyWeadick stage and participated in the first Calgary Stampede. In 1914, he toured...
the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum 1990 Calgary Stampede GuyWeadick Award 1999 Texas Sports Hall of Fame 2000 ProRodeo Hall of Fame 2002...
While there, she met GuyWeadick, who was also an accomplished rider and roper, and they married in 1906. Florence LaDue and GuyWeadick led a peripatetic...
races were held as a spectator sport was at the 1923 Calgary Stampede. GuyWeadick, who had founded the Stampede eleven years previously, invited ranchers...
include the Ponoka Stampede and the GuyWeadick Days in High River. The sport of chuckwagon racing was invented by GuyWeadick, and formal races were first held...
the annual Labor Day Rodeo that bears his name. 1970 Calgary Stampede GuyWeadick Award 1997 Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage...
seconds Callie duPerier 2014 144.93 seconds Lisa Lockhart Lockhart won the GuyWeadick Award from the Calgary Stampede in 2016. Lockhart qualified for the NFR...
roping; Flores remained undefeated in the event. Flores and her husband, GuyWeadick, also a trick roper, organized and produced the first Calgary Stampede...
Persons set about his dual careers as a rodeo athlete and rancher/cowboy. GuyWeadick, the promoter of the first Calgary Stampede, sought to secure the best...
Gregory William Weadick (born February 7, 1954) is a Canadian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency...
became the first rodeo producer and rodeo stock contractor. In 1912, GuyWeadick and several investors put up $100,000 to create what today is the Calgary...
the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum 2001 Calgary Stampede GuyWeadick Award 2004 MSU-Bozeman - Athletics Hall of Fame 2009 ProRodeo Hall of...
First Stampede of Flores LaDue: The True Love Story of Florence and GuyWeadick and the Beginning of the Calgary Stampede". Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-0934-9...
Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo Kansas' Biggest Rodeo (Phillipsburg, Kan.) GuyWeadick Memorial Rodeo (High River, Alberta) Bell County PRCA Rodeo (Belton,...
"Leonard Ward". ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 24, 2019. "1982 GuyWeadick". CanadianProRodeoHallOfFame.org. Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame. Retrieved...
(and later the RCMP). Calf Robe liaised with Calgary Stampede founder GuyWeadick on the inaugural event in 1912, and was invited to camp at the Indian...
Calgary businessmen hired American roper GuyWeadick to manage, promote, and produce his first Stampede. Weadick selected the events, determined rules and...
First Stampede of Flores LaDue: The True Love Story of Florence and GuyWeadick and the Beginning of the Calgary Stampede". Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781451609349...
Lassandro Ernest Cashel Pearl Miller John Edward Brownlee Vivian MacMillan GuyWeadick Florence LaDue Robert "Streetcar" Brown Sr. Robert "Bobby" Brown Jr....
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