History of our Parade Marshals

2024  Cochrane Historical & Archival Preservation Society - 25 Year Anniversary

2023   MacKay's Ice Cream - Celebrating 75 Years in Business

2022   The Elain Family – best known as the “Tony’s Western Wear Family"

2021   Cochrane Helping Hands

2020    Jag Thing - Mehtab East Indian Cuisine

2019   Cochrane Activettes

2018    Spray Lake Sawmills
             The Band of the Royal Logistic Corps

2017    Cochrane RCMP Detachment (Canada 150)
             Honorary Marshalls:
            - Chief Roy Fox – Kainai/Blood Tribe Stoney Nakoda Nation.
            - Chief Darcy Dixon - Bearspaw First Nation
            - Chief Ernest Wesley – Stoney (Wesley) First Nation
             Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers

2016   50th Anniversary of the Labour Day Weekend Rodeo (Cochrane Lion Club)
              Band of the Parachute Regiment

2015    Kimmett Cup Family
             Title sponsor: Brightpath Early Learning & Child Care Centre
             Parachute Club Band

2014   Salute to our Olympians and Paralympians: Justin Snith and Tristan Walker
            Title sponsor: The Community of Riversong

2013    The Cochrane Lions Club – celebrating 50 years of community service
            Title sponsor: The Community of Riversong
             Band of the Irish Guards

2012   Calgary Stampede Royalty from the Cochrane Area
             Title sponsor: The Community of Riversong
             Band of the Grenadier Guards

2011    Pride of Cochrane: Grant Profit, Martin Parnell, Glen Boles & Jack Tennant
             Title sponsor: North Star Ford

2010    Women of the West, a celebration of the women who helped settle
             Cochrane: homesteaders, homemakers, ranchers, entrepreneurs, outlaws,
             cattle drivers – pioneers, every last one of them

2009    Cochrane Fire Department 100th Anniversary

2008    Martha Birkett, planned and completed “Giddy Up for Wishes”, a 3-month 3,500 km horse ride
             from Ottawa to Cochrane to raise money for the Children’s Wish Foundation.

2007    The Edge Family, in honour of Don Edge

2006    Private Cody Stump, Member of the Canadian Forces, recently returned from Afghanistan

2005    Bill Collins, Member of the Cutting Horse Hall of Fame, Member of the Order of Canada