Who built Fort Whoop-Up and why? #FortWhoopUp150
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What are the traditional ways of living of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) Fort Whoop-Up tells visitors about the history, culture and traditions of the Niitsitapi.
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The Crowsnest Pass was rife with bootleggers, but Lethbridge saw its fair share of the trade as well. The Lethbridge Herald published an article in April 1920 that captures some surprising risks associated with this illegal business.
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A century ago the micro neighbourhood of 6A Avenue South was neglected by the city authorities to the point that it provoked the local residents to take action.
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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.
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How did Lethbridge get onto printed tourist maps in the 1920s? It all had to do with the burgeoning past time of “motoring.”
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Potai’na (Flying Chief), also known as Joseph Healy, was a prominent member of the Kainai Nation and son of Akai-nuspi (Many Braids) and Pi’aki (the Dancer).
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The Alberta Ranch Boys quickly became a popular act, touring British Columbia with their “cowboy swing” style.
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The Anderson Sisters were passionate about their music and their stage presence. Every detail was meticulous, down to their matching uniforms and jewelry. Throughout the war, they supported community events, promoted war savings bonds, and even taught others how to become musicians themselves.
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During the Second World War, local big band groups played an energetic, swinging style of music that brought crowds to dance halls and joy to the community.
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As you are cleaning during this time of self-isolation, you may come across family photos, letters or other items that you want to donate to the Galt once we reopen. Here are two simple things that you can do while practicing physical distancing or isolating at home that can have a big impact on our ability to be good stewards of our collective past.
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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.
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Who put the first dragon boat into Henderson Lake to spark an interest in the sport?
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The Lethbridge Herald reported in 1920 that O. R. Gould, a then newly-elected MP from Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, had proposed use of a poisonous gas, similar to chlorine gas used in the First World War, to exterminate grasshoppers in western Canada.
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Since 1936, the Lethbridge art scene has flourished, in no small part, due to the presence of an enthusiastic art club. Artists in the club have created art, showed and sold their work, and taught others the skills to make their own art ever since.
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In 1972, a group of southern Alberta residents petitioned the National Sport Federation to allow Lethbridge and 13 surrounding communities to host the 1975 Canada Winter Games. The organizers of the event worked hard to host the games, whose motto that year was “Unity through Sport.” The 1975 games were the first hosted by a regional group.
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William Perchaluk was one of 8,579 individuals interned in Canada as “enemy aliens” during the First World War. He was born in about 1890 in Dereniowka, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and likely immigrated to Canada between 1911 and 1914.
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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.
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Praised by Canadian artist Bart Pragnell for his “high calibre” artistry with a “thoroughness and technical excellence sometimes missing in contemporary work,” Riethman was able to incorporate these aspects of his training and experiment with modernist developments in art such as impressionism, cubism and abstraction.
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The Inn Purple was a young adult coffee house that was open from 1967 to 1968 in Lethbridge. It was a place where teens and young adults could go to hang out, listen to music and dance without drugs, alcohol or their parents.
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