Material Type

Recording

Date Range

1978

Fonds

Pioneer Researchers Association Oral History Project

Creator

Pioneer Researchers Association

Physical Description

1 cassette tape; digital copy

Physical Condition

Excellent

Acquisition Source

Pioneer Researchers

Scope and Content

Side A - Biographical information about her parents, Walter Stewart Galbraith and Matilda Susanna Gallinger. - Father apprenticed as a pharmasist in Ontario. JD Higinbotham offered him a position with his drug store in Lethbridge. - Dr. Mewburn convinced him to return to school for his medical degree. - Mother was a nurse, arriving in Lethbridge in 1899 to work at Gait Hospital, d. 1963. - They were married 6 Aug 1 901 . - Residences: house on 3rd Ave S was built by Smith Bros. & Wilson. - Galbraith was elected mayor in 1907. First duty was to read the riot act to the residents of Chinatown. - Galbraith children: Ruth Eleanor, Francis Oliver, Aileen Steward (d. 191 1), Jean Alexander. - Describes the house on 3rd Ave S. - Recollections of her father's profession. - First automobile. - Quarentines and contagious diseases - Visiting cards and etiquette - 1913 Galbraith School was built and her mother laid the cornerstone - Information about Methodist Church and Southminster - father was a force behind the YMCA - Nursing Mission SideB - Blank

Access Restrictions

Public Access

Accession No.

19921008013

Collection

Archive

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