RodeoWomanCanada

So sad to hear of the loss of this amazing rodeo woman. The daughter of Dave Perry of Perry and Hook Rodeo outfit, she knew what it was to work as a rodeo girl and then woman. She was also an amazing teacher education student in UBC’s NITEP program when I was coordinator. She became […]

Update: Here we are with winter high-tailing it outa here and spring flowers trying to show their heads. Yes, the film editing process goes on. And on and on. Never despair: there will be a film….perfection takes time.

The whole cowboy way came from just being out there with your land, your horse. And, most of the time a good dog- not a great dog – but you still think it’s pretty good in your mind. And then you just go out there and you cowboy. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a

I’m the first female Falkland Stampede manager. I took over from my dad when he decided that he had put in enough time and he was ready to retire. And obviously my dad has been a huge support. He’s always there with a million questions that I have. But it’s been really great taking over

Karissa Duquette, receptionist at the CPRA Office in Airdrie. “It’s kind of the dream job, I guess you could say. I’ve been so interested in rodeo my entire life. A real highlight of this job was it’s more of the back side of things. I never saw this as a competitor: I was never a

It’s been interesting being a woman raising bucking horses, because when I started doing this, there was just me. It’s not a normal thing for us to do. I just fell into it because of the family and because you have to do something with horses like this. And of course, the family’s been involved

I was born into rodeo. For the girls, it was all the background work that kept the machine going, right?…..We had to iron our brother’s clothes perfectly. We had to babysit their kids when they were gone. We had to cook for them when they came home and their friends, whoever they brought home….I had

I expect you are all wondering what the heck is going on! I have been working my way through each of the interviews very carefully and choosing excerpts to support the essential parts of the film. Next steps will be the very creative parts. That requires long walks in the woods and deep thinking. LOL.

I just want to give a bit of an update on the progress towards our film. I have spent a lot of time this fall (so far) listening to the amazing women I interviewed in the summer of 2022 — first in and around the Falkland Stampede and then over to Sundre and women around

I had the honour ad pleasure of interviewing Elda for the film in the summer of 2022. Her daughter Donna posted the following on September 14, 2023 This lady left us last night just after 11pm at the young age of 84. She waited til she had heard from all of us and we were