William Baliko demonstrates how blacksmiths like William Gladstone would have made a knife at the fort in the late 1800s.
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Making the photographs taken for the Lethbridge Herald available to the public and researchers has been one of the largest and longest projects in the Galt’s archives.
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The Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra is an organization and resource in southern Alberta that many take for granted as part of our community. But the symphony didn't exist a short 60 years ago.
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Rebecca Many Grey Horses discusses the traditional roles of Niitsitapi women, notable and exceptional women in Blackfoot history and contemporary women who are leading in their communities and in the world.
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Learn about the effort in the early 1990s to save the plains bison and about locations sacred to the Niitsitapi people.
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In honour of the 100th anniversary of the end of Canada's first national internment operations during the First World War from 1914–1920, we are releasing a video presentation by Ben Weistra about the Internment Camp in Lethbridge, Alberta, focusing on William Perchaluk's tragic story.
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Learn about the Old Sun Museum, the history of the Siksika Nation and about a blood rock band called Kinroq.
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Learn about the modern struggle for recognition of the Métis People and hear an interview with Everett Soop regarding his book "I See My Tribe is Still Behind Me"
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Learn about the history and the battle for recognition of the Métis people, the design and history of the tepee, and the origin and culture of the Kainai people.
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A performance by Buffy Sainte-Marie, discusses the changes to traditional ways of living among the Peigan people after the signing of Treaty 7 and more.
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Episode 4 of The Buffalo Journals explores indigenous winter survival techniques with Harold Healy, preserving traditional knowledge with Joe Crowshoe, Sundance societies and rituals, and much more.
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Take a look at this 1989 TV episode that explores the relationship between the Tsuut'ina Nation on the Sarcee Reserve and the nearby City of Calgary, and profiles of Pat Kennedy, Boye Ladd and more. %u
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Discover the Bullhorn buffalo jump and an interview with nearby resident John Tallow; the Head-Smashed-In Interpretive Centre west of Fort Macleod, Alberta; a profile of Alvin Manitopiyes, a Cree Indian living and working in Calgary; and a review of the film “War Party.”
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Learn about the Kainai Pow-wow and Rodeo at Standoff, Alberta; the Indian Summer World Film Festival at Pincher Creek, Alberta; and watch the film “Where the Spirit Lives” about the residential school experience, which premiered at the Indian Summer World Film Festival.
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The Galt School of Nursing was a key part of the work to create and maintain a sustainable primary care facility in Lethbridge in the first half of the 1900s.
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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.
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Come explore A Painter’s Paradise at the Galt Museum & Archives, on display until May 10.
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“It was Hitler’s birthday. His birthday present — 1000 young Jews herded into cattle cars, bound for the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Among them were 21-year-old Eva Brewster and her mother. They were to be two of only seven from that transport who survived the Second World War.”
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In 2019, Jim Hutton offered to donate sections of railway track to the Galt that had been part of the old Lethbridge Rail Yard. The rail yard was built around the 1910s and was removed in the 1980s by Cadillac Fairview Company in preparation for the construction of Park Place Mall.
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