Posts tagged Exhibition Grounds

Exhibition Grounds Fire Hall

If you went to the fair at the exhibition grounds between the 1940s and the 1970s, you may have noticed a little white building with double barn-like doors with a painted sign above them that read Fire Hall. During the week of Lethbridge’s local fair, that little building located behind the grandstand became a substation for the fire department. The Lethbridge Fire Department had two firefighters stationed at the fairgrounds. They worked in shifts to provide 24-hour-per-day service for the four days of the fair.

ArticleBobbie Fox Akaiksims’staki (Many Thoughts Woman)May 5, 2020Exhibition GroundsExhibition Grounds, Fire, Lethbridge Fire DepartmentComment

The Lethbridge Internment Camp

In the first month of the First World War, Canadian military officials began planning for an internment camp, to be located at the Exhibition Grounds in Lethbridge. Renovations were completed to convert the horse stables and poultry building into living quarters, and to add a barbed wire fence. The facility was opened on September 30, 1914, and in mid-1915 it became a first-class camp designated for non-working prisoners who were primarily German or German-speaking Austrians.

ArticleBenjamin WeistraMarch 10, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesPrisoner of War, Camp 133, Exhibition Grounds, Lethbridge, YQL, Tunnels, Enemy Aliens, EscapeComment