The short-wave radio originated from Camp 133 in Lethbridge [1942-1946]. 

According to a September 1946 article in the Lethbridge Herald, the “powerful short wave receiving set” was “constructed secretly by German prisoners at the internment camp during the Second Great War”. 

The radio was the second found concealed in the camp and was discovered when the donor’s grandfather, Ted Emery, was working on the camp’s former public address system. 

Ref. # P20050004000 see the related exhibit