The Galt has been digitally releasing stories about some of those objects to online audiences. The most recent of the objects to be featured are a chess set and painting that belonged to Willi Mueller, a German prisoner of war. These objects are of national historic importance.

Galt's Vaults, Online PresentationGraham RuttanApril 1, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesSecond World War, Chess, Painting, Hanging, Execution, Prisoner of War, POW, Camp, Medicine Hat, LethbridgeComment

Places and Traces: The Southside

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.

ArticleAimee BenoitJuly 23, 2019Conybeare, Lethbridge, Boundaries, Neighbourhoods, Coal Mining, Camp, River Crossing, City Planning, Fairgrounds, Places & Traces: Our NeighbourhoodsComment