Physical Description

290 Black and White Slides

History Biographical

The Pioneer Researchers Association [PRA] was formed in 1977. Members include George Watson, Audrey Baines [Swedish] and Sheila Petherbridge. The PRA operated from a room in the Sire Alexander Galt Museum & Archives - now the Galt Museum & Archives and solictied donations of historical materials which they then ctalogued and preserved. The PRA also conducted an extensive oral history program, as volunteers interviewed over 100 people in Lethbridge and southern Alberta about their lives as early residents of the city and the region. Mrs Audrey Swedish, the district's volunteer archivist, continued to organize and add to the files after the material passed to Lethbridge School District #51.

Custodial History

The Pioneer Researchers Association ultimately dontated the material they collected to the School District where it was store in the Board offices untilo being donated to the Galt Museum & Archives

Scope and Content

There are 15 sets of slides which have their own subject listed. Set 1A. Buffalo 1.Cowboys who rounded up buffalo bought by Federal Government * brought to Canada in 1906. 2. The Herd 3.&4. Driving the herd 5. Lone buffalo 6. loading 7. railway officials with cowboy in charge 8. corralled 9. One buffalo killed in loading - squaw skinned it 10.&11. driving the herd 12. Lone buffalo 13. Part of the herd 14.Driving towards loading 15.The herd grazing, 16. & 17. the cowboys 18. The lone cowboy 19. The lone buffalo. Set1B The Wainwright Herd - During World War 2, Wainwright Park was closed as a home for buffalo. Part of the herd was taken to Wood Buffalo Park, and the others were shot. In so far as possible the carcasses were loaded and taken to an abattoir. 1.2. &3. Try to corral the buffalo 4.&5. Guiding into the corral 6.&7. in the corral 8. The marksman who shot the beast 9.The cook sitting on a buffalo claiming it as his prize 10. Bleeding the buffalo 11. Dinnertime for crew 12. Unloading the carcass 13. Dragging the carcass 14. At the abattoir--cooling the meat 15. Loading the meat 16. Hunting elk marksman is in a Bennett buggy 17. White elk 18. Dragging the elk 19. Elk Horns. Set 2 Canadian Pacific Railway -1. Bridge at Spring Coulee 2. C.P.R. Viaduct 3.&4. Railway right of way [St. Mary's River] 5.& 6. Pier St Mary's River 7.&8. C.P.R. Bridge over St Mary's River 9. C.P.R. Station and Blue Line street car 10. Freight Yards looking east 11.&12. High Level Bridge 13. Lethbridge Bridge Monument. Set 3 Cardston 1.&2. early pictures of the town Set 4 Churches 1.- 4. Saint Patrick's Catholic Church stained glass windows 5.&6. Knox Presbyterian Church 1908 United in 1925 7. Episcopal Church 8.Saint Augustine's 9. Wesley Church and Sherlock Block. Wesley Church later became Stern Furniture 8 St & 3rd Avenue 10. Southminster Church 11. Buchanan Chapel at Southminster 12. Immanuel Church 13. McKillop Church 14. Cornerstone for McKilllop Church 15. Cornerstone for St Andrew's Presbyterian Church 1928 16.&17. St Andrew's Presbyterian Church 1961 and stained glass window. Set 5 City of Lethbridge 1, Fire Station ca 18990 corner of 4th St. & 2nd Avenue served as jail--curfew bell on top 2. Second traffic bridge from west side to Lethbridge 1906[piers still standing] 3. Second traffic bridge 1907 4. Fifth Street--Army Cadets 1907, corner of third Avenue and 5th Street.5.&6. Galt Hospital opened in 1909 by Sir Wilfred Laurier and hospital in 1910 7. Fifth Street looking north 1910 8.&9. Henderson Lake 1911 10.Sage's Bridge [overhead bridge on 9th Street] A R & I Library 11. Entrance to Exhibition Buildings and Fair Grounds 1912 12. Exhibition buildings demolished by fire 1925 13. Coaldale Hotel 14. Victoria Mansions 1912 15. Alexandra Hotel 16.&17. Lethbridge Hotel looking south and 1912 18. Harness Racing at Exhibition Grounds 19. Galt Park 1912 20.&21. Galt Gardens 1914 22. Ellison Mills 1914 23. Court House corner 6th St and 4 Avenue City Hall present location of Woolworth's and Bargain shop 24. Court House 25. Dominion Block prior to Eaton's Store 4th Ave and 6th St S. 26.Starland Theatre and Alexander Hotel 4th Ave and 5th St. 27. Royal Bank of Canada 7th St. & 3rd Ave. 28. 3rd Avenue looking towards 13th St. 29. Third Avenue looking west. Acadia Block in foreground and Galt Garden visible. 30. Court house. Knox Church in background 4th Ave &6th St. 31. Park between 5th & 7th St Acadia Block 32. Chinook Club, City Hall, Police Station & Court house 7th St. and 4th Ave.33. Coaldale Hotel 34. Alexandra Hotel and Starland Theatre 35. Streetcar 36. Early Y.M.C.A. Building 37. Laundry Hill 38.&39. Old Man River 40. High Level Bridge 1909 41. Police Barracks and Y.M.C.A.. First building is guard room. Wesley Church was not built at that time. 42. Cornerstone of library in Galt Garden 43. Galt Gardens plaque [Rotary] 44. Cenotaph in Galt Gardens 45.& 46. World War two & Korean War Casualty List Galt Gardens 47.Galt Gardens sign 48. Galt Gardens Plaque 49. Cornerstone of City Hall 50. Cornerstone of Yates Memorial Centre 51. Yates Memorial Centre 52.-55. Lion's Pool 16th St North 56.-58. Demolition of Lion's Pool Set 6 Fort Macleod 1. Geodetic Marker 2. R.C.M.P. Cemetery 3. Monument to Jerry Potts 4. Stone erected outside fort at Fort Macleod. F.W.G. Haltain 5. Inside fort at Macleod 6. Historical marker at Fort Macleod on walls of fort 7. Plaque to Mrs Edwards Anglican Church 8. Window in Anglican Church 9. Bell at Fort Macleod School 10.-14 War Memorial at Fort Macleod 15. Cairn at Fort Macleod commemorating the arrival of the Northwest Mounted Police. Set 7 Historical 1. Fort Whoop Up Trail into Lethbridge August 1976 2. Junction of St Mary's & Oldman River 3. Junction of Old Man & St Mary's Rivers at Rollington Mines. 4. George Watson & Alderman Vera Ferguson near Whoop Up Site 5. Whoop Up Trail 6.Fort Whoop Up Interpertive lookout to trail 7. Sign for the Benton-Fort Whoop Up Trail 8. 9.Wording on a cairn 10. Victoria Jubilee House 11. Cairn at Galt Hospital site 12. An old house Moon River Estates? 13. Blackfoot Treaty No7 sign 14.- 16. First air crossing by Captain Hoy cairn in Galt Gardens,Cairn & Plaque of First air crossing 17.&18. Plaque on stone in Old Northside Cemetery erected by Hamilton School & George Watson 19. Road sign of Blackfoot Cree Battle 20.-24. Jerry Potts Look out marker at Kipp 25.&26. Toil & Peaceful Life highway marker near Cowley 27.&28. Massacre Butte highway marker near Cowley 29. Pincher Creek highway marker 30.Frank slide. Set 8 Natives 1. Blood Natives tipis 2. Bloods full dress early parade MacLeod 3.Bloods on horseback 4. Blood Natives Parade 1907 5. Grand parade Blackfeet Natives 6. Native Parade Lethbridge full dress Billy Lamb is on the far left. 7.&8. Native tipi and wagon 9. Natives - tipis, saddle and squaw at Fort McLeod 10. Tipis at Lethbridge 11. Travois and squaw in full traditional dress 12. Encampment 13. games maybe polo? 14.&15. Indian Days possibly U.S.A shows an American Flag 16. Horn Society of Alberta Blackfoot headdress 17. Scalp dance Blackfeet Fort Macleod 18. Chief Joe Healy & Brancves Fort Macleod 1907 19. Chief Running Wolf and party of Blackfoot braves 1907 20. Bloods with horses 1907 21.&22 Tipis and Native family &wigwam 1918 Yellow Bird's tipi taken by Rafton Cannng 23. Native encampment full regalia 24. Joe Healy 25. Red Crow 26. Massacre Butte Sign Set 9 Irrigation 1. & 2 Ditch and horses 3. Grading the ditch horse power use of elevating grader 4. Elevated grader 5. Road grader 6. Shoreline of ditch or reservoir 7. digging of ditch uses of ditcher steam power 8. White School District now McNally 9. Dr Fairfileds' home 10. Fairfield's raspberry patch 11. Irrigation flooding 12. Crop and irrigation ditch 13. Mr White in oat field 14. Binder pulled by a 3 horse team 15. Headquarters of early irrigation group 16. Chin Reservoir 17. Preparing the ditch 18.&19. View of a ditch 20. Bindng the crops with a 3 horse team 21. The crop 22. Grader 23. The crop 24. Irrigation ditch 25.Irrigation by flooding 26. The land flooded 27. Plaque in Irrigation Arch 28. Irrigation Arch and St Patrick's Church 29. Fairfield Farm Road sign 30. Closeup view of the plaque of the Dominion Experimental Farm 31. &32 Irrigation signs. Set 10 Mining 1.-5. Unveiling the cairn Sept. 3, 1963 first drift mines Lethbridge Historical Society & Lethbridge Miners Club. the latter paide for bronze plaque, the Armories brought stone from No 8 Mine 5.Identified are Alex Johnston, John Landeryou 12.Allan Jarvie brought sandstone at plawue site 13. No 3 mine south of 9th Avenue and 6th Street North now Jarvie concret works 14. No 6 Mine Hardieville 15. No 6 Colliers, Harieville 16. Galt Coal Mine 17. Cairn to first coal mine 18. Plaque on first coal mine cairn in Galt Gardens 19.&20 Both sides of the Coalhurst Mine Explosion Monument Mountain View Cemetery 21.&22 Both sides of the Coalhurst Mine Explosition Monument Catholic Cemetery [these slides are missing]23. Miner's Cairn in river bottom 24. Mine'r Cairn plaque 25. Blairmore Locomotive 1245 26. Locomtive and miner Set 11 Pass Area 12. Frank Slide 3. Lutheran Church 1963 4.-6. Bellevue Canadian Legion No. 19 War Memorial 7. A.L.H.Sommerville in church in Crowsnest Pass 8.-12. War Memorial at Coleman 13. &14 Blairmore Bell 15. Blairmore War Memorial 16.&17. Volcanic Rock No 3 Hwy west of Coleman 19. Blairmore Federal Building Set 12 People 1. Victor Moonchief 2. Joe Chief Body 3. Joe Chief Body & Victor Moonchief 4. Barry Gwatkin farmer, wife and daghter 5. Mrs Pitt 6. Casey Yonkman 7. Harry Pterson 8. Albert Peterson 9. Mayor A.C.Ander5son & plaque in park 10. Mayor A.C.Anderson & George Watson 13. Plaque Anderson Indstrial Park 14. Shackleford plaque 15. George Watson & Shackleford plaque 16. A. W. Shackleford and Watson by plaque 17. Shackleford by plaque 18. P.L.Naismith 19. A.E.Shackelford at Henderson Pool 20. George Watson & A.W.Shackleford t pool 21. Headshots of Watson and Schackelford at Henderson Pool 22. Oldtimers & Natives 23. Miners 254. Charles Magrath Mayor 25. Stafford Monument in Mountain View Cemetery 26. Plaque in northside cememtery and George Watson 27. George Houk Cairn in Mountain View Cemetery 28. Dominion Expertimental Farm Stone & Plaque 29 Mewburn plaque at Galt Hosptial 30. George Watson & Native stature Set 13 Pincher Creek 1.-2. Pincher Creek War Memorial 3. Highway Memorial Pincher Creek Set 14 1. Cairn at Ft. Macleod rrival of the N.W.M.P. 2. Marker in R.C.M.P.Cemetery at Ft. Macleod 3. Close up of marker in R.C.M.P.Cemetery 4.-5. Plaque in Anglican Church at Ft. Macleod for Eernest Usher and Brock Wilde. 6. Murder of Sgt. Wilde 7. N. W. M. P. Barracks cira 1912--officers quarters & guard room looking Northeast at Lethbridge. Set 15 1. First Central School 2. Manual Training School coornerstone 1912 3. St. Basil's School cornerstone 4. Army Cadets of Fleetwood School ca 1914 5.Second Central School now location of ther public library. Lethbridge High School can be seen in the background. 6. Central School between 8th and 9th Streets and 5th and 6th Avenues 7. Cornerstone laid by Mrs Galbraith 8. Cornerston 1917? 9. Westminster School & Gymnasium 5th Avenue and 13 Street now Westministers Shopping Mall 10. Cornerstone for Hamilton Junior High School formerly the L.C.I. 11.&12. Separate School 1949 &1952 cornerstones. 13. Wesminister School Cornerstone laid by H.G.Long 1953 14. St Patrick's School cornerstone 1954 15. Buchanan School Cornerstone 1955 16.&17 Gilbert Paterson cornerstone 18. Cornerstone laid by Mrs. Christiana McCaig 1956 19. sign at George McKillop School 20. St Francis Boy's School cornerstone 1957 21. General Stewart School cornerstone 22.- 24. Lakeview School cornerstone and views of school 25.Cornerstone laid by Chief Judge 26. Agnes Davidson cornerstone 27. Winston Churchill School

Notes

found in the photograph drawers

Accession No.

20001076

Collection

Archive

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