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Serving Once More: Guards at the POW Camp
ArticleIsabella LeeNovember 13, 2018Comment
Lethbridge Prisoner of War Camp
ArticleIsabella LeeOctober 23, 2018 Comments
Bruce Bairnsfather: Voice of the Soldiers
ArticleAimee BenoitOctober 16, 2018First World War, CartoonComment
An End to Prohibition
ArticleGraham RuttanOctober 16, 2018Comment
Pandemic at Home: Ineffective Remedies
ArticleAshley HenricksonSeptember 25, 2018FluComment
Pandemic at Home: Volunteer Nurses, The Ripleys
ArticleAshley HenricksonSeptember 18, 2018FluComment
Pandemic at Home: Doctors and Nurses
ArticleAshley HenricksonSeptember 11, 2018FluComment
Pandemic at Home
ArticleAshley HenricksonAugust 21, 2018FluComment
Honouring the Lives Lost
ArticleIsabella LeeAugust 7, 2018Comment
Picture Palaces
ArticleAimee BenoitJuly 31, 2018Comment
Green Acres Drive-In
Green Acres Drive-In

In 1950, a Calgary-based company opened the Green Acres Drive-In in Lethbridge on the corner of Mayor Magrath Drive South and Scenic Drive South, and two years later A. W. Shackleford and associates took over operation. The theatre had a 60-square-foot screen and a capacity of about 400 cars, later expanded to 575.

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ArticleAimee BenoitJuly 24, 2018green acres, drive-in, theatre, cinema, cinemascapes, exhibitComment
Dorothy Gooder’s Mission
ArticleIsabella LeeJuly 17, 2018Comment
Lethbridge Internment Camp During the First World War
ArticleIsabella LeeJuly 10, 2018Comment
The Highway to the Devils Brigade
ArticleIsabella LeeJune 26, 2018Comment
The Worst is Yet to Come: Becoming the Devil's Brigade
ArticleIsabella LeeJune 19, 2018Comment
The Rise of the First Special Service Force
ArticleIsabella LeeJune 12, 2018 Comment
Coal Mining’s Boom and Bust
ArticleGraham RuttanJune 5, 2018Comment
We Built This City with Coal Mining
ArticleGraham RuttanMay 29, 2018Comment
Niitsitapiiksi: The Blackfoot People
Article, Indigenous HistoryGraham RuttanMay 22, 2018 Comment
Before the High Level Bridge
ArticleGraham RuttanMay 8, 2018Comment
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Galt Museum & Archives
502 1 Street South,
Lethbridge, AB, T1J 1Y4,
Canada
4033203954 info@galtmuseum.com
Hours
Mon 10 am - 5 pm
Tue 10 am - 5 pm
Wed 10 am - 5 pm
Thu 10 am - 9 pm
Fri 10 am - 5 pm
Sat 10 am - 5 pm
Sun 1 pm - 5 pm
 
 

Free admission for self-identified Indigenous visitors.

Phone 403.320.3954
Email info@galtmuseum.com

502 1 Street South
Lethbridge, AB

A partner of Tourism Lethbridge

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