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.
Details to be confirmed
