The next Annual East Coast Night in Bearspaw will be announced in Spring 2025.
Annual Classic Car Show & Shine
July 20, 2024
Bearspaw Lions Hall
25240 Nagway Rd NW
Dust your boots off… get your Stampede on at the Pre-Stampede Party June 17th
This event is SOLD OUT! Thank you to our supporters for this wonderful charitable celebration.
Thank you for your support and we’re looking forward to seeing everyone at next year’s feast from down East!
Bearspaw Lions Club Caribbean Night Charity Fundraising Event
Our Bearspaw Lions Club is proud to have donated $3,000 to the Veterans Association of Calgary Food Bank!
Thank you to everyone who attended and the many volunteers who helped make this a wonderful community event.
The Annual Bearspaw Lions Sunday Farmers Market is closed for the 2022 season.
We thank you for making this a fantastic year and look forward to your continued support when we open again Sunday, June 3, 2023!
Check out our Vendor highlights on our Facebook and Instagram pages!
The Lion’s Club is excited to announce there is a new software system in use to manage our Farmer’s Market, called MarketWurks.
The application allows customers to view maps of our indoor and outdoor vendors showing where they are and what they sell along with contact information. Our vendors register and pay for stalls in our market and specify what Sundays they want to attend.
BPL is hosting its Annual Show and Shine for 50’s cars, hot rods, motorcycles and supercars – are all welcome!
Food trucks will be on site and the beer garden open!
Our event is hosted by Grant Kitzul and this year is In memory of his father, Orest Kitzul.
Admission is free for all spectators, vehicle registration will be $15 per entry with all proceeds going to charity.
Early History of the Bearspaw Lions Club:
(The following are excerpts from “History of Twenty Five Years of Service to the Bearspaw, Glendale & Westminister Dictricts; July 1953 to June 1978 by Lion Tim Bancroft”) These excerpts are fun to look back on and consider what and how things took place at that time, as compared to now.On July 23, 1953 a special meeting to organize a new (Lions) club was called to order at 9:00 P.M. at the Nag–Way Drive-Inn. There were approximately fourteen men from the surrounding district in attendance,…..
“After a thorough discussion about the advantages of a club in the Bearspaw district, it was moved by Roy Teghtmeyer that a Lions Club be formed in the name of Bearspaw Lions Club,….
“The Club’s first charter night was held October 5, 1953 at the Nag-Way Drive-Inn. Present were the twenty five charter members and approximately seventy five guests including representatives from Rockyford, Calgary-Bowness, Strathmore, Carbon and Great Falls, Montana. The Club’s official charter was presented to President Ted Cushing by District Governor Ken Bailey of Great Falls. “….. sponsoring club, Bowness.
“In May 1955, it was brought to the attention of the club that York Shaw, a Calgary building mover, had a number of surplus army huts for sale. It was moved that the Club investigate and purchase one of the huts at Currie Barracks if suitable. After investigating the T shaped building, it was decided to purchase one section from York Shaw for $750. “…..to move the building to a site at Bearspaw at a cost of $750. Charter member Lauritz Pederson donated approximately three acres of land adjoining the Bearspaw School property on the east side as a site for the new hall…… “During May the members turned out many evenings to level the site.“The concrete for the foundation was mixed in a small half yard mixer, the gravel, sand and cement shoveled in by hand and the concrete wheeled to the forms in wheel barrows. The cement for the job cost $94.50. The 24 foot by 62 foot building was moved onto the foundation early in June,
…. “The first community function held in the new hall was a Halloween party…… It was a big success with nearly 150 children and adults present. The first Lions meeting held in the hall was November 7,1955.”
“The Glendale Womens Institute very kindly donated a copper wash boiler to the hall to be used for heating water in. The 4-H Dairy Club donated 10 dozen cups to be used in the hall.”
THE LIONS CLUB OF BEARSPAW
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