Calgary Stampede to fuel their bottom line. Because the event is cancelled this year due to COVID-19, those businesses are feeling a big impactSmithbilt Hats has a long-standing history dating back to 1919.
Typically over Stampede they sell over 4,000 cowboy hats. Master hatter Brian Hanson said it’s the custom-hat experience that draws people from around the world.
Drag queens dance in Calgary park to drum up Stampede spirit “It’s pretty lonely actually. Usually we’d be lined up out to the streets,” Hanson said.“We’d have 10 or 12 people working instead of two today and we would be as busy as we can be,” Hanson said.