Ranchmans Nightclub in Calgary submitted Description

RANCHMAN’S has been a cowboy fixture in Calgary since April 28, l972. There is no other place so steeped in Alberta’s Pioneer Western Heritage. Ranchman’s is home to the professional rodeo cowboy. We are the Official Hospitality Location of the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association. The pro rodeo cowboys’ legacy is displayed on the walls and in the soul of the Ranchman’s; a museum of rodeo memorabilia and photographs; a true Alberta Legend Today!

Ranchman’s proudly displays over seventy championship trophy saddles of Canadian and World Champions, the ultimate in rodeo cowboy prestige including World Champion Calf Roper JIM GLADSTONE, the only Canadian to ever win the World Calf Roping Championship, and TUFF HEDEMAN, three time World Champion Bull Rider and founder of the Professional Bull Riders Association (PBR). The walls of Ranchman’s spring alive with the daring and danger-packed action photos of legendary showdowns between man and beast; the essence; the “heart and soul” spirit of rodeo.

Hank Willard’s Calgary Stampede chuckwagon, the trophy for winning the “Chucks” in l952 hangs defiantly over the stage, on display by his nephew WARD WILLARD, himself a World Champion Chuckwagon Driver and $50,000 winner of the Calgary Stampede’s “Half a Mile of Hell!”

Many of country music’s greats have performed here at “Canada’s Greatest Honky-tonk!!” Favorites such as Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn and Canadian legend IAN TYSON. Today’s Hot Country stars Neal McCoy, Toby Keith, Clay Walker, Paul Brandt, Lisa Brokop, George Fox, Ty Herndon, Perfect Stranger, Sons of the Desert, Darrel Dodd,and Farmer’s Daughter, all have cut their teeth on Ranchman’s stage.

Ranchman’s is very honored to have been voted the Canadian Country Music Association’s Country Club of the Year on five occasions.

The Ranchman’s authenticity has attracted many movie location shoots to its premises! “COOL RUNNINGS,” a film depicting the antics of the Jamaican Bobsled Team during the 1998 Olympics was filmed on location at Ranchman’s. You’ll find the actual bobsled and helmets used in the movie on display as well as numerous photos of the movie set itself. Portions of the set of the Academy Award winning movie “UNFORGIVEN” front the Ranchman’s patio.