CCA marketing director Lenora Bells (middle) with members of the Battlefords Hotel Association at the Nationswest Fieldhouse in North Battleford (Ryan Lambert/BattlefordsNOW staff)

By Ryan Lambert

Canadian Cowboy Association Donation

Battlefords Hotel Association donates $10,000 to the Canadian Cowboy Association ahead of the CCA Rodeo Finals

Oct 8, 2025 | 1:04 PM

The Canadian Cowboy Association (CCA) is holding its Rodeo Finals at the Access Communications Centre in North Battleford on the weekend of Oct. 23-26. A few weeks before the event, the Battlefords Hotel Association donated $10,000 to the CCA.

Partnered with Destination Battlefords, the Hotel Association donates a share of their revenue to the CCA to help bring people to the Battlefords for the rodeo, as explained by Comfort Inn North Battleford owner/operator Darin Menegre. “The hotel association gives 1 per cent of their revenue monthly towards this…it builds up in the bank account. When the events are coming, they come to us for sponsorship.”

The parties are currently in the second year of a five-year deal to help bring people to the Battlefords year after year for the annual Rodeo.

“The CCA brings many people to town and the hotels and fills them up for the better part of the week,” Menegre said. “It was a great opportunity because they packed the arena like every night and it’s a really good deal to happen. Having events just gets people coming to the community and spending their money at all the restaurants and hotels and other businesses.”

CCA marketing coordinator Lenora Bells said that donations like this help not only the rodeo in North Battleford, but across western Canada.

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“It goes to support a number of rodeos, like throughout Alberta, B.C., all the Prairies, Saskatchewan Manitoba. It supports those communities so they can have these events.”

Some of the rodeo’s events include saddle and bareback bronc riding, steer wrestling, bull riding, team roping, calf roping and more.

There is also ladies barrel racing as well as junior events.

“It’s just our western history. We took what the working cowboy was doing, and then we put it together so that we have a sport of rodeo…these are the top cowboys through the prairies that are competing right now,” Bells said.

The North Battleford rodeo is one of 46 sanctioned community rodeos across western Canada. The event is set to have 400 volunteers and 6,000 spectators, bringing people in from all over supporting the hotel association and cowboy association.

Tickets are $30 for general admission, $20 for kids from seven to 12 years old and free for kids six and under.

There are also ticket packages available for $120 and $80 for the whole weekend.

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Ryan.lambert@pattisonmedia.com