The Galt's Vaults: The Mystery of the Travelling LCI Jacket

When an object comes into the Galt's permanent collection, the important thing is not the object itself, but the layers of story and meaning associated with the object and what it can tell us about the past and ourselves.

Kevin MacLean explains one of the most unusual stories associated with an object in the Galt's collection: an LCI Rams Varsity Football Jacket from 1960. The jacket left the possession of the original owner, Kendall Russell when he was still a teenager in Lethbridge in the 1960s. Over the intervening decades, this LCI jacket somehow made its way to a thrift store across the Canada–US border in Kennewick, Washington State. When the Galt purchased the jacket in 2008, Kevin connected with Russell to find out the story behind the jacket and discovered that somehow Russell also happened to be living in Kennewick! To this day, we still do not know how the jacket and Russell separately wound up in the same town as each other across decades and an international border. What do you think?

You can learn more about the LCI Jacket's history at https://collections.galtmuseum.com/en/permalink/artifact12377

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