Places and Traces: Our Neighbourhoods
- Galt Museum & Archives 502 1 Street South Lethbridge, AB, T1J 0T7 Canada (map)
curated in partnership with the Lethbridge Historical Society
This is the story of Lethbridge as a community: how we see and identify our neighbourhoods, and how those places help define us. Delving into the histories of Chinatown, Hardieville, Glendale-Dieppe and everything in between, the exhibit contrasts “official” narratives with residents’ lived experience. This collaboration between the Galt and the Lethbridge Historical Society brings you some of the lesser-known stories in our city’s development, and some unexpected, surprising ways in which residents have shaped the places where they live.
In the 1880s, Lethbridge went from coal mining camp to boomtown. The population shifted in 1885 from the river valley into a newly surveyed townsite on the prairies. The Southside boomed.
- Posted in Special Exhibit
- Tagged 2010-2019, neighbourhoods, lethbridge historical society, chinatown, hardieville, residents
West Lethbridge was considered a “planners’ dream”—a chance to experiment with contoured streets and a new “neighbourhood village” concept incorporating residential, retail and recreational services.