Lethbridge Public Stockyards.

Physical Description: 8 black and white photographic prints. 2 newspaper clippings.

Scope and Content: Newspaper clippings: Lethbridge Herald. December 2, 1958. "Business Brisk". Lethbridge Herald. May 2, 1984. "May Day! May Day! Stockyards laid to rest." Demolition of the Stockyard Inn, formerly Stockman's Inn. Photographs: Cattle buyers at the Lethbridge Stockyards. Cattle being selected fo…

Physical Description: 8 black and white photographic prints. 2 newspaper clippings.

History Biographical: The Lethbridge Public Stockyards were constructed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1931. As noted in the abstract of "Stockyards Districts as Industrial Clusters in Two Western Canadian Cities", by Ian MacLachlan and Ivan Townshend, 2004: "The stockyard was the nucleus of the livestock and meat processing agroindustry, one of the key propulsive forces in the rapid growth of western Canada at the turn of the century. In metropolitan centres such as Calgary and in smaller cities such as Lethbridge, stockyards functioned as transhipment points for livestock in transit and as markets for meat-packing plants."

Scope and Content: Newspaper clippings: Lethbridge Herald. December 2, 1958. "Business Brisk". Lethbridge Herald. May 2, 1984. "May Day! May Day! Stockyards laid to rest." Demolition of the Stockyard Inn, formerly Stockman's Inn. Photographs: Cattle buyers at the Lethbridge Stockyards. Cattle being selected for grade and weight before being put on scales. Cattle in the auction ring. Cattle in the buyer pens after the sale. Three men: Julius ?, Commission House Clerk; Mat (sic) ?, Grassy Lake; Jim Rapson, Grassy Lake, "picking up the moola". Cattle being herded into a chute by a man on horseback. Man adjusting a scale. Cattle being herded into a chute.