Lethbridge Public Stockyards.
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- Date Range
- 1955-1985
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession No.
- 20161033
- Physical Description
- 22 x 28 cm. black and white photograph
- Scope and Content
- Aerial view of the Lethbridge Public Stockyards. Snow is covering the ground.
- Date Range
- 1955-1985
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 22 x 28 cm. black and white photograph
- 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
- Aerial view of the Lethbridge Public Stockyards. Snow is covering the ground.
- Accession No.
- 20161033
- Collection
- Archive
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