Raymond Stampede Grounds

The Town of Raymond was founded in 1901 by Jesse Knight, who named it after his first son Raymond. Ray Knight funded and promoted Canada’s first ever stampede in Raymond in 1902. This stampede was so successful that it inspired similar events in other areas of Alberta such as the infamous Calgary Stampede. The Raymond Stampede will be hosted in this location for the last time in July 2023, after which it will be moved to north of the town.

Region:

Southwest Alberta

Field Documentation:

May 12, 2023

Field Documentation Type:

Terrestrial LiDAR

Culture:

Euro-Canadian

Historic Period:

1902CE

Latitude:

49.460684

Longitude:

-112.650279

Datum Type:

NAD 83

Threat Level

This gallery contains modern and historic images related to the Raymond Stampede grounds. The photos in the gallery have been provided by the Raymond & District Historical Society and the Capture2Preserv project.

In March 2023, the Capture2Preserv project received an email from the Raymond & District Historical Society, who were looking for an option to digitally capture and preserve the Raymond Stampede Grounds. Coordinating with the Historical Society and the weather, the Capture2Preserv team were able to record the site in May 2023. The site was captured from the air with the Sensefly Ebee Geo Fixed Wing Drone, with a pre-planned mission to capture the entire Stampede Grounds and race track with Sesnsefly’s eMotion software. The photogrammetric data was then processed using Pix4D mapper, producing an orthomosaic photograph and 3D point cloud. With five passes of the GeoSLAM ZEB Horizon mobile scanner with the ZEB Vision 360 camera providing coverage of the Grandstand (interior and exterior), the corrals, the arena, and the announcer’s booth (interior and exterior). The GeoSLAM data was registered, processed, and merged in GeoSLAM HUB and Connect. The drone and GeoSLAM data were bought together in Cloud Compare to provide full coverage of the site.

Merged GeoSLAM data

The raw data files for this project are available for download from the archive repository. Scans are .las file format. Please download the metadata template to access metadata associated with each file. All data is published under the Attribution-Non-Commercial Creatives Common License CC BY-NC 4.0 and we would ask that you acknowledge this repository in any research that results from the use of these data sets. The data can be viewed and manipulated in CloudCompare an opensource software.

Raymond Stampede Grounds -- Raymond -- Laser Scanning

Raymond Stampede Grounds -- Raymond -- Laser Scanning -- Metadata

Raymond Stampede Grounds -- Raymond -- UAV Photogrammetry -- Orthomosaic

Raymond Stampede Grounds -- Raymond -- UAV Photogrammetry -- Point Cloud

Raymond Stampede Grounds -- Raymond -- UAV Photogrammetry -- Metadata

Raymond Stampede Grounds

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Photo Gallery

Map

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