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4 unusual facts about Lethbridge


2011 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament

The top seven women's teams at the 2011 European Curling Championships, Scotland, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, will join defending champions Sweden in representing their respective nations at the 2012 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Lethbridge

The 6,500-seat facility has hosted concerts, three-ring circuses, multicultural events, national curling championships, basketball events, banquets, skating events and the Lethbridge Hurricanes, a major Western Hockey League franchise.

Lethbridge-West

Gruenwald would run for a second term in the 1975 election and would be defeated finishing a distant second place behind Progressive Conservative candidate John Gogo who took almost 60% of the popular vote.

Mr. Hito

While driving to a show in Lethbridge with Bruce Hart, Jim Neidhart, Gerry Morrow and a Stampede road hand, he had suffered facial injuries as well as a broken wrist and a dislocated knee after hitting the back tires of semi-trailer as it was pulling into a roadside gas station.


Andy Anderson

A. C. Anderson (died 1996), past mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Central Mountain Air

Prior to October 1, 2011, Central Mountain Air operated Air Canada Express flights from Calgary to Cranbrook, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat.

Coal Banks Trail

The city's Parks and Recreation department maintains the city-wide system, which was designed to connect the Oldman River valley with other areas of the city, including Pavan Park in the north and Henderson Park in the east.

Duncan Johnson

After a time at CJOC in Lethbridge, Alberta, Duncan was offered a job in Bermuda where he stayed for a year and a half.

George Skelding

He came west with the North-West Mounted Police in 1886 and helped establish the police barracks in Lethbridge.

Henderson Stadium

Spitz Stadium or Henderson Stadium, a stadium in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Indian Battle Park

Indian Battle Park is a park located in the Oldman River valley urban park system of Lethbridge, Alberta.

Indian general election, 1926

Government of India: Sir James Crerar (Home Member), Alexander Muddiman (Home Member), Sir George Rainy (Railways, Commerce & Ecclesiastical Member), George Ernest Schuster (Finance Member), Sir Brojendra Mitter (Law Member), Bhupendra Nath Mitra (Industries & Labour Member), Evelyn Berkeley Howell, Alfred Alen Lethbridge Parsons, Hubert Arthur Sams, Gerard Macworth Young, Kodikal Sanjiva Row, Clement Wansbrough Gwynne, John Coatman, Sir Frank Noyce

Interstate 15

At Sweet Grass, I-15 terminates upon crossing the Canadian border into the province of Alberta; however, I-15 signage is present on Alberta Highway 4 southbound from Lethbridge to the U.S.-Canada border.

John Edward Schwitzer

He was known for his two major projects on the CPR, the Lethbridge Viaduct or High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta, and the Spiral Tunnels, which eliminated the Big Hill near Field, British Columbia.

John Giles Lethbridge

As leader, Lethbridge supported a strong temperance policy in opposition to the liberalization of liquor laws by the government of Howard Ferguson.

John Sydney Lethbridge

In 1925, Lethbridge married Katharine Greville Maynard, the daughter of Sir John Maynard, KCIE CSI, and they had one son and two daughters.

Joy Kogawa

The opera was also performed before the general public in the greater Vancouver area, Red Deer and Lethbridge, Alberta, Seattle, Washington, and Ottawa, Ontario at the National War Museum.

Julie Nolin

Since 1996, she has filled various roles at stations in Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Swift Current, Calgary, Saskatoon and Edmonton.

Lars Osberg

"Poverty and the Extent of Child Obesity in Canada, Norway and the United States" (with Shelley A. Phipps, Peter S. Burton, and Lynn N. Lethbridge) Obesity Reviews, January 2006, Vol.

"Measuring Obesity in Young Children” (with Shelley Phipps, Peter Burton and Lynn Lethbridge), Canadian Public Policy Vol.

Lethbridge School District No. 51

In the election, Lethbridge voters can only vote for a trustee to one (not both) of the two major school boards (Lethbridge School District and the separate Holy Spirit Roman Catholic division).

Pat Cochrane

Pat Cochrane was a Canadian morning radio personality (disc jockey) on CHOG (AM 640 The Hog) in Toronto, CJSB (54 Rock) in Ottawa, CFBR-FM in Edmonton, CKIK-FM in Calgary, CHIQ in Winnipeg, CHEC in Lethbridge, CKSO in Sudbury and CJOK in Fort McMurray.

Prafulla Chandra Ray

Amongst others, he read Lethbridge's 'Selections from Modern English Literature' and Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield.

Ron Dart

Ronald Samuel Dart (born 1950, Toronto), BA (Lethbridge); DCS, MCS (Regent College), MA (UBC), PhD studies at McMaster University, is a university professor, author, and ACC mountaineer.

T.C. Lethbridge

Timothy C. Lethbridge, Timothy Christian Lethbridge, (born 1963), Canadian computer scientist

Thomas Charles Lethbridge

In 2003, a group of admirers of his work calling themselves "The Sons of T.C. Lethbridge" (Doggen Foster, Kevlar Bales and Welbourn Tekh), with the aid of Julian Cope and Colin Wilson, released A Giant: The Definitive T.C. Lethbridge, a set containing a booklet and two CDs containing music accompanying discussions of Lethbridge's work.

In her monograph Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones (1981), the archaeologist Audrey Meaney noted that Lethbridge's "observations on features in the cemeteries he excavated around Cambridge were perspicacious but in advance of his time".

In May 1957, the Egyptologist Margaret Murray involved herself in the Gogmagog debate, championing Lethbridge's ideas against the academic fraternity in a letter which she sent to The Times.

Transport in Lethbridge

The system was designed to connect the Oldman River valley with other areas of the city, including Pavan Park in the north, Henderson Park in the east, Highways 4 and 5 in the south and a loop in West Lethbridge (including University Drive and McMaster Blvd).

Lethbridge is 220 km from Calgary International Airport and 300 km from Great Falls International Airport, both of which provide commercial service to other destinations.

Werner Schmidt

Schmidt was vice-president of Lethbridge Community College when he was chosen to succeed Harry Strom as leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party following the defeat of Strom's government in 1971 despite the fact that Schmidt had never held a seat in the Alberta legislature.

William Carlos Ives

Ives moved to the town of Lethbridge in 1901 and joined a legal firm partnering with established lawyer Charles Conybeare.


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