On Crowsnest Highway (Provincial Highway 3) 0.8 kilometers west of Range Road 195, on the right when traveling west.
Mennonites have been moving to Alberta for well over a century. Mennonite settlement stretches back to 1894 when Mennonites from Waterloo County, Ontario, established a settlement at Didsbury. Didsbury’s first building was a narrow log immigrant . . . — — Map (db m201774) HM
On 1 Avenue South at 8 Street South, on the right when traveling west on 1 Avenue South.
In May 1905, Lethbridge signed its largest incentive agreement to bring the CPR's divisional point from (Fort) Macleod to Lethbridge. The City offered the company a 20-year tax exemption on 120 acres (48.6 ha) of land and 200,000 gallons (909,000 L) . . . — — Map (db m196966) HM
On 2 Avenue South at 4 Street South, on the right when traveling east on 2 Avenue South.
Built in 1890 and manned by volunteer firefighters, the structure is the oldest brick fire hall in Alberta. The building was expanded and rebuilt on this site in 1908. Larger doors accommodated new equipment and additional space provided living . . . — — Map (db m196970) HM
On 3 Avenue South at 6 Street S, on the right when traveling west on 3 Avenue South.
The employees of the Alberta Railway & Coal Company founded the “Miners Library” and established the earliest library in Lethbridge. In 1918 the local YMCA provided the first home for the Lethbridge Public Library. As the city grew, the citizens . . . — — Map (db m196972) HM
On the Crowsnest Highway off-ramp to 1st Avenue South, 0.8 kilometers from Crowsnest Highway (Provincial Highway 3), on the right.
Rising 307 feet from the valley floor, this bridge, over which runs the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Crows Nest Pass, spans the valley in one mile and forty seven feet. Completed in 1909, it is the longest, highest bridge of its type in the . . . — — Map (db m196961) HM
On 5 Avenue South at Stafford Drive South, on the right when traveling west on 5 Avenue South.
On October 10th, 1912 the Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada, officially opened this building as the “Manual Training School”, the first in the Province of Alberta. Designed by architects H.M. and W.A. Whiddington, they used a combination . . . — — Map (db m196976) HM
On the Crowsnest Highway off-ramp to 1st Avenue South, 0.9 kilometers from Crowsnest Highway (Provincial Highway 3), on the right.
[English] This Canadian Pacific Railway viaduct, built between 1907 and 1909 across the Oldman River Valley, was an engineering triumph. More than 1,600 metres long and 95 metres high, this steel structure is the longest and . . . — — Map (db m196963) HM
Near 3 Avenue South at 6 Street South, on the right when traveling west.
[English] On August 7, 1919, Captain E.C. Hoy made the first crossing of the Canadian Rockies by air from Vancouver following a route over Vernon, Grand Forks, Cranbrook, and through Crawford Pass. His Canadian-built Curtiss JN-4 . . . — — Map (db m201700) HM
Near 3 Avenue South at 6 Street South, on the right when traveling west.
[English] In 1872, on the western bank of the Oldman River at the present site of the Federal Mine, Nicholas Sheran opened the first coal mine in Alberta. He broke his own trails, found his own markets, and hauled coal by ox-team . . . — — Map (db m220697) HM
