Anna MacLaren: From Waitress to Labour Leader

Anna MacLaren began her career as a waitress in the Lethbridge Ritz Café, but advocated and fought for worker’s rights, ultimately becoming the first woman elected to be President of a local chapter of a Trades and Labour Council in Canada.

ArticleBobbie Fox Akaiksims’staki (Many Thoughts Woman)July 1, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesAnna MacLaren, Trades and Labour Council, Ritz Café, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Alberta Federation of Labour, Equal Pay, Equal Work, women's rights, women's history, City Board of Health, Lethbridge, Southern Alberta, Galt Museum & Archives Comment

Controversy in Lethbridge! Fears of Perversion, Immorality, and Change in 1974

ArticleKarissa PattonMarch 22, 2013Archives, Birth Control and Information Centre, Controversy, Galt, Lethbridge, Southern Alberta, birth control, women's historyComment

An Enchant Quilt

ArticleBelinda CrowsonSeptember 28, 2012Enchant, Galt Museum, historic quilts, quilting history, quilts, southern Alberta history, women's historyComment

Happy International Women's Day

ArticleBelinda CrowsonMarch 7, 2012International Womens Day, voting rights, women's history, women's rights, women's suffrage, Galt MuseumComment