Connecting Community: 100 Years of the Lethbridge Public Library
- Galt Museum & Archives 502 1 Street South Lethbridge Canada (map)
curated by Aimee Benoit and Zoey Lorne
For the past one hundred years the Lethbridge Public Library has been a cornerstone in the cultural life of the city. Discover the early history of the library as a gathering place for curious minds and its evolution as a means for southwestern Albertans to connect with resources, ideas and each other.
Existing library facilities are totally inadequate, and we are in desperate need to expand.
—Mayor J.A. Jardine
In this city we have hundreds of young people who have nowhere to go in the evenings after the work hour where they can improve their minds and develop a taste for the finer and higher things of life.
—Lethbridge Herald, June 8, 1909
What a place [a library] would be to spend a portion of Sunday, when time hangs so heavily on most men’s hands. It would save many a one from going out and raising Hades.
—C.S. Keller, Lethbridge News, January 14, 1889