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Lethbridge
Lethbridge ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. With a population of 106,550 in the 2023 Alberta municipal censuses, 2023 municipal census, Lethbridge became the fourth Alberta city to surpass 100,000 people. The nearby Canadian Rockies, Canadian Rocky Mountains contribute to the city's warm summers, mild winters, and Chinook wind, windy climate. Lethbridge lies approximately southeast of Calgary on the Oldman River and northwest of the Canada–United States border at the Sweetgrass–Coutts Border Crossing. Lethbridge is the commercial, educational, financial, industrial and transportation centre of southern Alberta. The city's economy developed from drift mining for coal in the late 19th century and agriculture in the early 20th century. Half of the workforce is employed in the health, education, retail and hospitality sectors, and the top five employers are government-based. The University of Lethbridge, the only university in Alberta south of Calgary, is l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lethbridge County
Lethbridge County is a municipal district in southern Alberta, Canada. It is in Census Division No. 2 and part of the Lethbridge census agglomeration. It was known as the ''County of Lethbridge'' prior to December 4, 2013. Its name was changed in time for 2014 to coincide with its 50th anniversary. History Lethbridge County encompasses an area that was originally under the jurisdiction of six municipalities. It was originally formed as the Municipal District of Lethbridge No. 25 on January 1, 1954 by amalgamating the municipal districts of Bright No. 16 and Barons No. 25 and portions of Special Area No. 4, the County of Vulcan No. 2 and the municipal districts of Warner No. 4 and Sugar City No. 5. Ten years later, on January 1, 1964, the Municipal District of Lethbridge No. 25 joined with Lethbridge School Division No. 7 to become the County of Lethbridge No. 26. It subsequently changed its name to the County of Lethbridge on September 6, 2000 and then again to Lethbridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lethbridge City Council
The Lethbridge City Council is the legislative governing body that represents the citizens of Lethbridge, Alberta. The council is composed of the mayor and eight councillors. The mayor is the city's chief elected official and the city manager is its chief administrative officer. Current Lethbridge City Council * Blaine Hyggen, mayor *Belinda Crowson, councillor *Jeff Carlson, councillor *Jenn Schmidt-Rempel, councillor *John Middleton-Hope, councillor *Mark Campbell, councillor *Nick Paladino, councillor *Rajko Dodic, councillor *Ryan Parker, councillor History In 1890, when the local population reached 1,478, an application was made to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories to grant town incorporation. Such was granted on 3 December of that year and the following 9 February, the first town council meeting was held in the Lethbridge Hotel. Charles Alexander Magrath was the first mayor and was joined by six aldermen. Shortly after Alberta became a province in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Thomas
Rachael Thomas (née Harder) (born 1986) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Lethbridge in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. A member of the Conservative Party, she was reelected in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, and has been the Shadow Minister for Canadian Heritage since October 2022. Previously, Thomas has also served as the Official Opposition critic for Youth and Persons with Disabilities, the Status of Women, and Digital Government. Early life and education Harder was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up on a small horse farm in Kathyrn, Alberta, where she was the third of five children. When she was nine years old, she planned a dog kennel business with her parents. Harder engaged in humanitarian work in Mexican orphanages and African health clinics and schools. She graduated from Briercrest College and Seminary in Saskatchewan, and was named its young alumnus of the year in 2012. Harder then mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaine Hyggen
Blaine E. Hyggen is a Canadian politician. He currently serves as the mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta. Early life and education Hyggen is the son of Lola "Dodie" and Larry Hyggen, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hyggen was educated at Lethbridge Community College where he took Business Law and Accounting. He is the owner of Copy Express. City council Hyggen ran for Lethbridge City Council in the 2007 and 2010 municipal elections before finally getting elected in the 2013 Lethbridge municipal election. He was re-elected in the 2017 Lethbridge municipal election. While serving on council, he put forward a successful proposal to rename the Adams Ice Centre to the Logan Boulet Arena after the ice hockey player from the city that was killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. He was less successful when he brought a proposal to call on the provincial government to pull funding for a supervised drug-consumption facility in the city. He stated that he heard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown Lethbridge
Downtown Lethbridge is the central business district of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, hosting most of the city's banks and several accounting and law practices, including national firms. Boundaries Strictly speaking, the downtown is defined by the Oldman River valley on the west, Crowsnest Trail and the CPR rail line on the north, Stafford Drive (9 Street) on the east and 6 Avenue on the south. It is not very large and contains very little in neighbourhood structure. It is home to Chinatown, a two block area on 2 Avenue, west of Galt Gardens. Transportation Downtown Lethbridge serves as a transportation hub. Whoop-up Drive, the busiest roadway in Lethbridge, connects to downtown. Scenic Drive also provides downtown with a connection to the United States via Highway 4 and the Lethbridge County Airport via Highway 5. Downtown has two connections to Highway 3, which provides direct access to British Columbia and indirect access to Calgary and Saskatchewan. The city's main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Neudorf
Nathan Neudorf is a Canadian politician who has been Alberta's minister of affordability and utilities since 2023. He was elected in the 2019 Alberta general election to represent the electoral district of Lethbridge-East in the 30th Alberta Legislature. He won re-election in the 2023 Alberta general election in Lethbridge-East over the NDP's Rob Miyashiro, a former Lethbridge city councillor, by over 700 votes. Neudorf previously held Alberta Cabinet posts as minister of infrastructure and deputy premier (2022–2023). Political career As MLA, Neudorf supported the $3,384,900 provincial contribution to the Lethbridge housing project for Indigenous women. A 64-unit seniors’ community also opened in Lethbridge with Neudorf speaking of how there had been a problem with seniors’ housing for some time in the city and hoped the $15.8 million facility would help address that. On February 4, 2022, Neudorf wrote an open letter calling for an end to the restriction exception pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Miyashiro
Robert Seiko Miyashiro is a Canadian politician who was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Lethbridge-West in 2024. A member of the Alberta New Democratic Party. He previously served as a member of the Lethbridge City Council from 2013 to 2021. Miyashiro was a candidate for the Alberta NDP in the 2023 Alberta provincial election in the neighbouring riding of Lethbridge-East, where he lost to incumbent cabinet minister Nathan Neudorf by 636 votes. He also ran as a candidate for the Alberta Liberal Party in the 2012 Alberta general election in Lethbridge-East, coming in third place. Prior to entering politics, Miyashiro worked in the human services sector for over 40 years, and was most recently the executive director of the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization. Personal life Miyashiro is a third-generation Japanese-Canadian and Okinawan-Canadian. His mother was a school teacher and his father was a sheet metal worker. Miyashiro was born in Lethbri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, the Northwest Territories to its north, and the U.S. state of Montana to its south. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only two landlocked Canadian provinces. The eastern part of the province is occupied by the Great Plains, while the western part borders the Rocky Mountains. The province has a predominantly humid continental climate, continental climate, but seasonal temperatures tend to swing rapidly because it is so arid. Those swings are less pronounced in western Alberta because of its occasional Chinook winds. Alberta is the fourth largest province by area, at , and the fourth most populous, with 4,262,635 residents. Alberta's capital is Edmonton; its largest city is Calgary. The two cities are Alberta's largest Census geographic units ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lethbridge Sun Times
''Lethbridge Sun Times'' is a weekly paper in the Lethbridge, Alberta, area, with a circulation of 24,000 in 2007. The paper is part of Alta Newspaper Group, the same company that publishes and distributes the daily ''Lethbridge Herald''. History In 1985, Vic Palychuk, Joe Myndio and Ted Stilson started a company called Demographics Inc. This company ran the monthly ''Buy and Sell'' newspaper, a publication focusing on classified advertising and available at a small number of locations. The paper was a direct competitor to ''The Shopper'', another weekly classifieds paper. In short time, the ''Buy and Sell'' expanded into a 24-page weekly paper and delivered to every home in Lethbridge. By its third year, the paper had won an award from the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce. By the time the paper was sold to Thomson Corporation, Thomson Newspapers in 1995, it was named the ''Southern Sun Times''. In September 2000, Thomson sold the ''Sun Times''along with the ''Herald''to Horizon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lethbridge
William Lethbridge (1825–1901) was a lawyer in England. When bookseller W H Smith owner William Henry Smith II decided to become involved in politics in 1864, he enlisted Lethbridge as a managing partner. He sat for a portrait by Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) in 1882 (see illustration). Lethbridge was the first president of North Western Coal and Navigation Company, a mining company based out of Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1882. The city of Lethbridge was named after him by Alexander Tilloch Galt in an effort to convince him to invest in the new company. However, Lethbridge never went to Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun .... History of Lethbridge 1825 births 1901 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 19th-century British businesspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms Of Lethbridge
The Coat of arms of Lethbridge is an official symbol of the city of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. It was designed by Reverend John Stanley Chivers and adopted on September 16, 1907. The shield is a roundel with three divisions, blue (azure), red (gules) and brown (ochre), with charges depicting a locomotive (for transportation), a sheaf of wheat (for agriculture) and a hand with pickaxe (for coal mining) as the foundation of the early economy of the city. A circular scroll reads ''City of Lethbridge • 1890 • 1906'', the town and city incorporation years respectively. The compartment consists of a panoramic southern Alberta scene portraying strip farming and a mine tipple against a background of mountains and foothills. It rests on the city motto: ''Ad occasionis januam'' (Latin for "Gateway to Opportunity"). A mural crown in the crest symbolises the city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Lethbridge
This is a list of mayors of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. {, class=wikitable , +Mayors of Lethbridge ! ! Mayor ! Term Began ! Term Ended , - , 1, , Charles A. Magrath , , 1891 , , 1891 , - , 2, , Harry Bentley , , 1892 , , 1893 , - , 3, , Thomas McNabb , , 1894 , , 1894 , - , 4, , William Colpman , , 1895 , , 1895 , - , 2, , Harry Bentley , , 1896 , , 1898 , - , 5, , Frank Hamilton Mewburn , , 1899 , , 1900 , - , 6, , William Oliver , , 1901 , , 1904 , - , 5, , Frank Hamilton Mewburn , , 1905 , , 1905 , - , 7, , George Rogers , , 1906 , , 1906 , - , 8, , Walter S. Galbraith , , 1907 , , 1907 , - , 9, , William Henderson , , 1908 , , 1909 , - , 10, , Elias Adams , , 1910 , , 1911 , - , 11, , George M. Hatch , , 1912 , , 1912 , - , 12, , W. D. L. Hardie , , 1913 , , 1928 , - , 13, , Robert Barrowman , , 1928 , , 1934 , - , 14, , David Horton Elton , , 1935 , , 1943 , - , 15, , Alfred W. Shackleford , , 1944 , , 1946 , - , 16, , John A. Jardin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
