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Our annual Victorian Prairie Christmas event is coming up!  Thursday & Friday (November 16th & 17th). Each event starts at 1pm each day.  Includes cowboy poetry, authentic period music, and Christmas carols!  Will also have food & non-alcoholic drinks provided.  Tickets can be purchased at the door ($20 per person, or $18 per person for groups […]

The Board of Directors would like to invite the public to a special event this week Saturday… to celebrate the birthday of the Coutts-Sweetgrass International Train Station, which commenced operations in October 1890 for the Alberta Railway & Coal Company and Great Falls & Canada Railway. From 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Saturday, October […]

As we start to wind down tourist operations at the Galt Historic Railway Park for 2017, the Board of Directors would like to invite the public to two separate events this week Saturday. From 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm on Saturday, August 19th – enjoy a tour of the 1890 Train Station & a speeder […]

Introduction The concrete elevator seen here stands out as a unique example of Alberta ingenuity. For a time in the 1980s it was the ‘Cadillac’ of the grain industry and future of what was to come, meant to replace the iconic wooden grain elevators of old (and hopefully spread across Western Canada). The Buffalo-Sloped-Bin (BSB) […]

This week’s blog post is courtesy of guest contributor Jonathan Koch, editor of the southern Alberta history website, ForgottenAlberta.com.   We had the opportunity to host Jonathan and Greg Farries last July at both the Galt Historic Railway Park and the Ogilvie Wooden Grain Elevator sites.  They were both excited to check these unique places out and […]

Introduction The grain elevator seen here really stands out as unique and was in the early 1980s a highly innovative design, the future of the Alberta grain industry. The Buffalo Sloped Bins (BSB) was the dawn of a bold new era, modern and efficient – it was the design that would eventually replace hundreds of […]

Who is William Lethbridge, and why is our city named after him?  It all starts in southwest England around the turn of the nineteenth century…   The Lethbridge family lived on a farm called ‘Wood’ near a small village named South Taunton, in the county of Devon (Devonshire).  William was born in 1825 into poverty […]