Past, present and future of Lethbridge’s Whoop-Up Days

There was no midway when Whoop-Up Days first came to be and it actually wasn't even called Whoop-Up Days. “In the late 1890s, we're a small farming and mining community of about 2,500 people, we've only been a town for five, six, seven years and in 1896, we formed the Lethbridge and District Agricultural Society, the fourth agricultural society in Alberta,” said Belinda Crowson, president of the Lethbridge Historical Society. In 1897, the first agricultural fair took place in Lethbri