Editing Calgary Stampede (section)

===Pancake breakfasts===
[[File:Chinook Stampede Breakfast.png|thumb|right|250px|The Chinook Centre pancake breakfast serves more than 60,000 people each year.|alt=Several thousand people stand in lineups while volunteers serve food. A large shopping mall stands in the background.]]
The pancake breakfast is a local institution during Stampede.<ref name="SwervePancake">{{citation |last=Brooker |first=Kevin |title=Man vs. Pancake: How the breakfast was won&nbsp;... right here |work=Swerve Magazine |publisher=Postmedia Network |date=July 2011 |pages=37–41}}</ref> Dozens are held throughout the city each day, hosted by community groups, corporations, churches, politicians and the Stampede itself.<ref name="SwervePancake" /> The tradition of pancake breakfasts dates back to the 1923 Stampede when a chuckwagon driver by the name of Jack Morton invited passing citizens to join him for his morning meals.<ref name="ChinookPancake">{{citation |last=Fortney |first=Valerie |url=http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/city/story.html?id=3e3f954c-1270-48a7-8b2f-b0f8d4913351&p=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118160624/http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/city/story.html?id=3e3f954c-1270-48a7-8b2f-b0f8d4913351&p=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-18 |title=Chinook Centre hosts 50 years of breakfast fun |work=Calgary Herald |date=2010-07-08 |access-date=2010-07-10 }}</ref>

The largest is the breakfast hosted at the [[Chinook Centre]] shopping mall. Four hundred volunteers are required to feed over 60,000 people who attend the one-day event that had its 50th anniversary in 2010.<ref name="ChinookPancake" /> Other groups, such as the Calgary Stampede Caravan, feed as many as 120,000 people over ten days.<ref>{{citation |last=Dormer |first=Dave |url=http://test.calgarysun.com/news/Stampede/2010/07/09/14659826.html |title=120,000 expected at Stampede breakfasts |work=Calgary Sun |date=2010-07-09 |access-date=2011-08-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509072039/http://test.calgarysun.com/news/Stampede/2010/07/09/14659826.html |archive-date=2012-05-09 }}</ref> The rising popularity of the [[barbecue grill]] in the 1960s and the city's population boom at the time brought with it the growth of community and company barbecues throughout the city during Stampede.<ref name="Gray137" /> Community booster groups have exported the tradition across the country as a symbol of Calgary's hospitality. Among them are the Calgary [[Grey Cup]] Committee, whose volunteers have hosted pancake breakfasts on the day of the [[Canadian Football League]] championship game for over three decades, sometimes in spite of poor weather conditions for the annual November contest.<ref>{{citation |last=Bielski |first=Zosia |url=http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=769f6b8d-2ed6-4b17-a67f-f33ef3df54c4 |title=The breakfast must go on |work=National Post |date=2007-11-23 |access-date=2011-07-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324105046/http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=769f6b8d-2ed6-4b17-a67f-f33ef3df54c4 |archive-date=2016-03-24 }}</ref>