Treat yourself to a night at Café Galt – designed to educate, entertain and enrich! Explore and discuss current exhibits and ideas, take in film screenings, workshops, lectures and other unique experiences. Second Wednesday monthly.
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Galt
Museum Virtual Tour
Click on icon above to tour the Galt Museum & Archives. Select a room from the pulldown menu on the bottom left hand side. Use controls to move up, down or left and right. This virtual tour requires QuickTime. |
Prisoners Almost Outnumbered Citizens
Camp 133, Lethbridge's Second World War Prisoner of War Camp, was a city unto itself. Designed to hold 12,500 prisoners, the camp at one time housed over 13,000 men. Considering the population of Lethbridge at the time was just under 15,000, the camp had a profound effect during its short four years of operation. Lethbridge historian, Georgia Green Fooks, will speak on Camp 133 and the relationship of the camp to the people of southern Alberta.
Georgia Green Fooks is a native of Lethbridge
and a daughter and granddaughter of southern Alberta pioneers. Fooks is
a retired communications arts instructor from Lethbridge Community College
where she taught from 1970 to 1993. She has been researching and writing
about southern Alberta history for many years and her works include seven
histories of the region. Since her retirement, she has presented more
than 200 history and craft shows on community television. She has also
served as Chairman of the Fort Whoop-Up Interpretive Society, chaired
the first autonomous board of the Sir Alexander Galt Museum & Archives
and served on the Friends Board of the same institution.
The Canucks and Jerry: Behind Barbed Wire
An indepth look at the prison camps in World War Two specifically concerning Canada and Germany and their treatment of prisoners. Take a look at the conditions, experiences and occurrences inside several camps in Germany and Canada and at the lives of some of the people who experienced them. Topics such as The Great Escape, Canada's largest camps in Lethbridge and Medicine Hat, the infamous Colditz Castle and treatment of prisoners will be included.
Garrett Bishoff is a Lethbridge Collegiate Institute student who has taken a great liking to history. After learning of the Regional Heritage Fair in Lethbridge he became infatuated with history specifically surrounding the two World Wars. He attended the Heritage fairs for six years, then just recently volunteered as a judge. His interest in history has taken him places: he has been across Canada many times, been interviewed for his projects and now spends his time volunteering at the Galt Museum & Archives. He continues to passionately study history and attend local historic events. In September 2007 he was informed of an opportunity to be an extra in the upcoming World War One movie "Passchendaele" by Paul Gross, which he gladly experienced!
