The last echoes of the building boom that for years had had suppliers and contractors working flat out were fading. In 1909 a second hospital opened in Lethbridge, the “Van Haarlem,” a private facility owned and operated by Mrs. Maria Elizabeth Van Haarlem, a nurse by training. With the demand for electric power increasing rapidly, that year the City Council thought it a wise investment to pay $130,00 for the Lethbridge Waterworks and Electric Light Company’s power plant adjacent the Fire Hall. Completed in 1916 in the “Edwardian” or “Beaux Arts” style with a copper-clad mansard roof decorated with alternating arc’d and gabled dormers designed by Winnipeg-based architectural sculptor, David E. Jones, it can quite properly be termed an “edifice.” Its “public” façades are clad in Manitoba tyndal stone while the back and south side reveal the rough brick work of its core construction. Magrath coming south out of North Lethbridge lets underpasses the CPR and offers travellers the option of going west on the Crowsnest Highway, or underpassing it, as well, to turn right on 3rd Avenue S. and ride back towards downtown to 19th Street, turn right and turn right again onto the Highway. On one hand he had given up a key part of his commercial machine, on the other hand he didn’t have to shoulder the expense of maintaining a railroad, but he retained the land earned by the construction of the line. The Association received its charter and spent $320 to acquire a 40-acre plot south of Town from AR&C. The City roared, its amenities and advantages bruited far and wide by developers imbued with the “booster” mentality. With the beleaguered German nation close to collapse, No. The Galt mines were working flat out to stockpile coal to fuel the huge project. Care, however, has to be exercised when planting structures anywhere west of Fifth: total live weight has to be very carefully calculated. This event might have been sponsored by the Department of Agriculture and hosted by Dominion Experimental Station and Wm. All totalled up, the Viaduct had cost $1,334,525 and the lives of five workers.23 To the relief of the Kainai who had been long annoyed by the grass fires started by locomotives, the new alignment completely avoided their lands, and to the relief of the CPR, it shortened the route distance between Lethbridge and Macleod by 5.25 miles and halved the travel time, eliminated 1800 degrees of curvature with their wear and tear on trackage and wheels, reduced the gradient by two-thirds, and replaced 2.8 miles of rickety wooden trestling with 1.4 miles of solid steel. The one bright spot on Lethbridge’s economic horizon was the re-alignment and standardization of the gauge of the old “Turkey Track.” All summer long navvies worked to lay new sections of track and up-grade the old. Magrath had an interview with the Minister of the Interior at which he briefed Sifton on the irrigation scheme proposed by the Galts some five years earlier. He said. The edifice cost $34,000 to raise, and was opened on January 24th, 1922, under the proprietorial eye of Hazel Bletcher, the City’s librarian since March of 1920. Lethbridge looked good: lots of thirsty miners and railroad workers, and a fairly relaxed attitude towards quaffing a glass or three. The promise of prosperity attracted more businesses to Lethbridge and over the course of the year many more buildings arose in the downtown district. Lethbridge, like all Prairie communities, suffered during the Great Depression.  941  Fernie        63 He had jobs enough to keep every skilled tradesman he could hire busy from sun-up till last light. No.          J.J. Hill, faced with a radically reduced demand for coal, reneged on his contract, buying no where near the two hundred tons per day contracted. In 1904 the Company decided to eliminate the problem and assigned its Assistant Chief Engineer of the Western Lines department, John Edward Schwitzer, the task. Since then the philosophy of the management has changed. On August 6th, the eccentric Minister of Militia and Defence, Colonel Sam Hughes, commanded the units across Canada to begin recruiting men between the ages of 18 and 45 for an expeditionary force to Europe. You hit Crowsnest Pass summit (1382m) They were unopposed. But herpetologists describe them with adjectives like “irritable,” “mean,” and “occasionally aggressive.” Their bite has been compared in toxicity to that of a large wasp: nasty, but rarely fatal to those not allergic to their venom. Come 1911 the CPR owned enough shares in the Galt company that it controlled the board and made application to parliament to take formal control of the AR&I. Sending Stafford and Bryant down to Nova Scotia to recruit more miners and move them and their families out to Coal Banks, the Galts attacked the problem of delivery. That year, too, the American Smelting and Refining Company would “blow in” its large lead smelter at East Helena. 39 of 1894, “An Ordinance to Incorporate the Galt Hospital,” would receive royal assent on September 7th, 1894, naming Elliott T. Galt, Wm. Though beautiful and unique, some of the charm evaporates when one remembers the circumstances under which many of the Japanese responsible for Garden came to, and lived in, the Lethbridge area. The Partners likely would have preferred it otherwise, booze being so much cheaper than hardware and dry goods, but many Kainai traders demanded axes and knives, pots, pans, cloth, medicine, repeating rifles and ammunition, tobacco. Life was cheap. route was the designated Lower Mainland 1000 in 2003, and the The bell at Higinbotham’s was rung furiously to summon the fire brigade, but eight cottages were in smoking ruins before the blaze was extinguished. This meant, writes den Otter, that 400 workers laboured six days a week during peak mid-winter demand period to meet the increasingly heavy domestic demand as farming families in their thousands moved onto Prairie homesteads. Just as a railroad, Magrath argued, a canal would bring settlers attracted by fruitful land. The effect on downtown business was immediate and positive as sex tourists returned to Lethbridge with their dollars. Mr. Sheran: First Coal, Indian Battle Park is bounded on the south by Whoop-Up Drive, a modern expressway that connects old Lethbridge to West Lethbridge across the 6th Avenue Bridge, completed in 1975. Whatever he was rumoured to lack in the diplomatic department,38 Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt was no quitter.         With its charters in its pockets, CP began to build into the Kootenay. Miebach of the Windsor. By the time the City bought the new hangar at the field on October 1st of that year, a revolving beacon flashed and boundary lights had been installed to aid pilots landing at night. In 1902 the old North-Western Coal and Navigation’s steamboat, the Alberta took its final voyage.

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