Anna MacLaren: From Waitress to Labour Leader

Anna MacLaren began her career as a waitress in the Lethbridge Ritz Café, but advocated and fought for worker’s rights, ultimately becoming the first woman elected to be President of a local chapter of a Trades and Labour Council in Canada.

ArticleBobbie Fox Akaiksims’staki (Many Thoughts Woman)July 1, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesAnna MacLaren, Trades and Labour Council, Ritz Café, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Alberta Federation of Labour, Equal Pay, Equal Work, women's rights, women's history, City Board of Health, Lethbridge, Southern Alberta, Galt Museum & Archives Comment

Happy International Women's Day

ArticleBelinda CrowsonMarch 7, 2012International Womens Day, voting rights, women's history, women's rights, women's suffrage, Galt MuseumComment

Lethbridge women could vote in 1912?

ArticleBelinda CrowsonJune 29, 2011Lethbridge history, women's rights, women's suffrage, Galt MuseumComment

Museum Exhibit Musings -- Could you vote?

Belinda CrowsonSeptember 3, 20091906-1913, City of Lethbridge, Lethbridge history, Lethbridge, Staffordville, voting rights, women's rightsComment