Along with “Kootenai” Brown of Waterton Park fame, William Samual Lee was one of the first Caucasian residents in this part of the country.
Read MoreUpon his death, William Fairfield was declared “Southern Alberta’s best known pioneer and moving spirit in agriculture trail blazing,” a tribute he greatly deserved.
Read MoreFather Van Tighem held the first mass in Lethbridge in 1884 when he was asked to come from Fort Macleod to administer the last sacraments to Michael Sheran, brother of Nicholas Sheran. He was later officially appointed the first Pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Lethbridge.
Read MoreWilliam Buchanan was a newspaperman and politician. In 1905 he bought a half interest in the Lethbridge Weekly Herald.
Read MoreAlexander Tilloch Galt was born in London in 1817, the son of John Galt, poet and land developer.
Read MoreJoe Healy, a member of the Kainai, was adopted by Johnny Healy, who along with A.B. Hamilton started Fort Whoop-Up.
Read MoreLouise McKinney was the first woman elected to a government in Canada, the first woman elected to a legislature in the British Empire.
Read MoreLethbridge was actually named for William Lethbridge, the first president and largest investor in the North Western Coal and Navigation Company.
Read MoreFrom 1870 to 1900, he was head chief of the Kainai, also known as the Blood tribe, part of the Blackfoot Nation.
Read MoreKate Andrews is remembered through Kate Andrews High School in Coaldale and the Andrews Building at Lethbridge College. So who was Kate Andrews?
Read MoreThe Fighting Parson! Charles McKillop was the perfect minister for the rough, tough coalmining and frontier town that Lethbridge was in the early days. It is said that if he couldn’t convince someone with the power of his words, he convinced them with his fists!
Read MoreEdith Coe was born in England and worked for a while as a governess in France. In the 1880s, she followed her parents out to the Lethbridge area. She started a one-room school in a miners’ cottage in 1885, teaching there for about a year.
Read MoreBorn in Lethbridge, Ted Hagell showed a talent for drawing and a love of the prairie landscape and the pioneer life.
Read MoreJim Shot Both Sides was the last Hereditary Chief of the Blood Reserve as well as the first elected chief of the Blood Reserve.
Read MoreNicholas Sheran, born in New York of Irish parents, was the first commercial coal miner in Alberta and, some speculate, in all of western Canada.
Read MoreBorn in Hardieville (now part of Lethbridge) in 1914, Irene McCaugherty was a painter, poet, writer, and photographer.
Read MoreOne of the most colourful figures in early Lethbridge was Dr. Frank Hamilton Mewburn, who arrived in Lethbridge in December 1885 and accepted a post as Medical Officer with the North Western Coal & Navigation Company.
Read MoreMildred Dobbs was requested to not attend church. What kind of woman must she have been to have such a request made? The very best!
Read MoreA lover and supporter of the arts, and an accomplished actor, Joan Waterfield was involved with southern Alberta theatre for many years.
Read MoreFemale entrepreneurs in Lethbridge in the 1930s were rare enough. Ella Emma Dunn was a black, female entrepreneur in Lethbridge in the 1930s
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