It was doubtless with mixed feeling that he negotiated the sale of his father’s first western railroad to the CPR in September of 1897 for $976,950. The Canadian trans-continental railroad would, of course, require immense quantities of coal, but in 1880 it was still proposed to run well north of Sheran’s mine. At Lethbridge, the company invested heavily in infrastructure. have about 12" wide rough, deep groves cut into a shoulder On March 25th, 1913, 4 George V 1913 Chapter 22 “An Act to incorporate the City of Lethbridge” received royal assent. Bakers’ and Power’s wanted to re-establish their commercial presence in the N-WT and could only do so with inexpensive rail transport. The Days of the CPR, The CPR acquired a commercial interest in Lethbridge, according to J.A. The Association received its charter and spent $320 to acquire a 40-acre plot south of Town from AR&C. At that time this was the end of the canal which began diverting water from the St. Mary’s River at Kimball in 1900. Dave, reads “Deane, Special Report, 7 December 1893,” was gut-shot dead by an old acquaintance, Thos. Ironically, many former P.O.W.s returned to the place of their incarceration, eager to renew friendships that had transcended the barbed wire of Camp 133. Scott and Adolf Mutz in Fort Steele in 1898. ‘Tis not noted in what tasks the Minnow was engaged, likely nudging barges up to the off-loading wharf at Medicine Hat. Businessmen founded their Chinook Club in 1901, the year that the Cinema arrived in Lethbridge at Oliver’s Hall where those who had a few pennies to spare could watch an apparition painted in light flickering on a wall. Lethbridge rejoiced. Aircraft such as the Electra and the popular Douglas Commercial 3 were bigger and faster and required longer runways than had their predecessors of even ten years earlier. Opposed was the powerful J.J. Hill of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway, and George Stephen, president of the CPR, among others. 3. Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Burdett-Coutts “of Piccadilly”—to pony up £2,000 each and join him in a syndicate to investigate carefully the coal measures in the North-West. With her barges loaded she headed back down to Medicine Hat, amazing the local Blackfoots to whom she was the “is-tee-a-keo-sa-chis.” Though the Regina Leader reported that she made the round trip in but 60 hours, the water was very low in the Belly and she was tied up at The Hat until the next spring. As engineers searched for the easiest crossings on the St. Mary’s River and Lee Creek so the St. Mary’s River Railway (St.MRR) could be pushed on to Cardston,118 CN-wI was in negotiations with the Mormon entrepreneur, Jesse Knight. This pattern pertained in 1911, 1919, 1922, ‘23, ‘24, though most of these work-stoppages were of much shorter duration than the 1906 action. More worldly than the Kainai, Sheran envisioned other uses for the coal. Completed to three storeys in 1909, an additional two floors were added in 1911. From the festering trenches of Flanders, soldiers brought home another gift besides Victory in The Great War: Disease, specifically, the “Spanish” Influenza, Spanish ‘flu.’ Quoting from Lois Simmie’s The Secret Lives of Sgt.         den Otter in Civilizing the West: … reports the population of Lethbridge as exactly 1,462 as of census day, 1901; of whom 80% were British, 16% Slav.104 In Lethbridge: A Centennial History, however, he and Johnston mention 2700, but this is likely an estimation of the “metropolitan” population including residents in the “north ward” of Stafford and the “Hammersburg Addition,”105 where lived 864, about 35% of whom were “Sclavish,” from somewhere in the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire. Operationally the route was complicated, mentions Don Bain in Canadian Pacific in The Rockies - Volume 4 (The Calgary Group of The British Railway Modellers of North America, Calgary, 1979), for trains had either to back out of, or into, Lethbridge. Come the autumn of 1869 smallpox revisited the Niitsi-tapi, killing some 630 Kainai, twice as many Piikani, and seriously weakening the Siksikah as the winter wore on. 3 nearly completed. On September 23rd, 1927, the City of Lethbridge was granted a Customs Air Harbour Licence for the facility. The HBC Athletic Association built their nine-hole golf course at Henderson Lake in 1913, the foundation of the current course there. Charles Magrath, according to the authors of the Walking Tour of Lethbridge published by Alberta Culture’s Historic Site Service in 1981, completed a [re]survey of Lethbridge on June 18th, 1890. Whatever, he initially laid out 12 streets and seven avenues south of the right-of-way, each a generous 100 feet wide. Eagle in The Canadian Pacific Railway …, a deal was struck: CP would lease the standardized Dunmore–Lethbridge line until December 31, 1897, with an option to buy it for $9,000 per mile until that date. The year of 1893 was a bad one for Lethbridge coal miners and all who depended upon them, from school “marms” to “Point” madams. Running the Railroad, Transportation remained, of course, the CPR’s main business in Lethbridge. Henderson campgrounds are straight on. The result was that money available for loans in North America—indeed, much of the developing world—disappeared up as cash was sucked back into Europe to underwrite these expenditures. To the north of the City, the mighty Galt No. Harmon Fairfield, its director. Despite lagging land sales, in 1902 the CN-wI had purchased a consolidated block of a half-million irrigable federal acres south of Lethbridge and began a renovation project to double the St. Mary’s Main’s capacity and extend it to the north-east. Four days later, a third N-WC&N steamer was slid into the Saskatchewan at Medicine Hat. In 1921 there were counted 11,100 residents in Lethbridge. Appreciating its solid construction and thoughtful appointment, Colonel Macleod offered Akers $10,000 for the fort. They did not welcome strangers into their community, just as they, in turn, did not feel entirely welcome themselves, south of the tracks. At that point there is a pullout with bear proof garbage containers and a pair of signs, a British Columbia Heritage Marker and a "Crowsnest Pass Summit" sign, which indicates that the altitude at that point is 1358 metres, or 4455 feet. Magrath, John Higinbotham and Harry Bentley as an enthusiastic “booster” of Lethbridge, and it was likely that their combined voices supported the decision of the N-WMP to establish “K” Division in 1886 and post it to the new coal town under the command of62 Superintendent Samuel Benfield Steele, the hero of the East Kootenays. Monday the 3rd was a holiday in Alberta, and a crowd gathered at the offices of The Lethbridge Herald where the latest news off the telegraph was printed and posted in the windows. They had expended $200,000 of AR&C’s capital on increasing production and building infrastructure. Coal Company, Limited, extracted 7,000 tons from the far north-east corner of the Lethbridge field since it began working in 1965. A second barge departing on May 29th had no trouble, riding on higher water.37 Upon arrival at Coal Banks, the timber was off-loaded and the barges laden by wheel-barrow with 15 to 20 tons of coal each and sent careering down the River in what Dr. Rood estimates to be a 50-hour trip to Medicine Hat, should no impediments be encountered. Ephraim Ellison completed construction of the plant in February of 1903.119 For those who qualify, the YWCA on 8th St. S. offers accommodations in the building it built in 1983. On the edge of the urban sprawl in 2007 is the old Hardieville School, and a quarter of a mile farther, opposite on the west side of 13th, is the compact eight-plus blocks of Hardieville itself, established during World War One to house the miners working the nearby No. From the infield of Minoru Park in Richmond, B.C., Hoy had gunned the 90 horse-power Curtiss V-8 and his fuel-laden Jenny clawed itself aloft at 4:13 that morning. Instinct failed them, and come the spring the land was littered with the frozen bodies of animals. As well, the Galts agreed to fund operating costs from the profits of their companies.162 It took over two years to finalize the plan and build, but on September 1st, 1910, prime minister Laurier was on hand to open the brick-built edifice. And aerobically strenuous. Corruption began to gnaw at the credibility of the Lethbridge police force in 1907. In 1915, when procurers canvassed the countryside for scrap steel which industry could reshape into killers of young men, with no ceremony and less thought the City patriotically hurled the relics into the maw of destruction. The exception is the old core which, again like many Prairie communities, is laid out square with the original alignment of a railroad. His high-handed attitude earned him few friends on council. Going north across the tracks of the old Alberta Railway and Coal line to Coutts and past the doughnut and coffee shops, 43rd eventually intersects the Highway. It was a time of calculated renewal with pioneer structures downtown unsentimentally ripped down to make way for new construction. Profits were declining. Freigang states that mayor George M. Hatch and Council approved Lethbridge’s street railway system sometime early in 1912. Everything worth mining seemed to be buried within a 100 miles of the Boundary, and getting at it from the Mainline with shortlines and steamboats was just not economic. The winning architect, the notable Arthur Erickson, was inspired by the Viaduct and the result of a steady two years’ work beginning with a ceremonial sod-turning on September 5, 1969, was the unique first phase, the thousand-foot-long, nine-storey-high “University Hall.” Nearly 40 years later, the “Campus in the Coulees” has in-filled the slopes below huge parking lots on prairie level behind The Hall. With the beleaguered German nation close to collapse, No. 4 of the Canadian Legion, BESL, and in 1961 “Royal” was prefixed to “Canadian Legion” and “British Empire Service League” was dropped. Elliott Galt ordered the abandonment of the drift mines in the Belly bottoms and shut down the AR&C’s celebrated and expensive inclined railway on May 15th, 1893. On July 13th, while awaiting a fine-quality camera with which to take aerial photos, Jock and Harry put on a memorable demonstration of trick flying during which Harry walked the wing. The Mormons, experienced irrigationists with a half-century of hard-won expertise in Utah, suggested that they build a main irrigation canal from a diversion that they intended to install in the St. Mary’s River, and run it out eastward along the Turkey Track to water lands that they would buy from AR&C. Its principals were those of the Syndicate, Lethbridge being named as president. A new market had to be found, and quickly. The first girder was laid, notes the prolific Alex Johnston in The CP Rail High Level Bridge at Lethbridge (Occasional Paper No. The Lethbridge Woollen Company had established a mill. By July all the commercial lots surrounding the “square” were taken. On June 27th of 1891, James F. Pierce had legally registered a subdivision of his nearby property and began selling lots cheap in what would become “Staffordville.” This caused continual problems, especially as the mine was worked only seasonally, allowing seepage to accumulate in the works when the pumps were not operating. The metals industry in Montana was booming. In bringing the mines to profitability, Donaldson won the notice of Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis, the wealthy Montreal-based founder of Imperial Tobacco Company, and together they seemed to have formed the Cadillac Coal Company. Having crossed the old Alberta Railway and Coal rail line peeling away south-eastward from the Elevator and the CNL, the Highway runs through a light-industrial/sales neighbourhood of car lots and shops with boiled coffee in Styrofoam cups. Overlaying the seam and acting as the mine’s roof, however, was a strata of “tender” slate which had to be extensively and expensively propped with timber shoring and supported by enormous “pillars” of coal left in situ. Under his direction LCA completed a hangar capable of accommodating an entire aircraft without having to remove its wings on June 14th, 1928.

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