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Writing-on-Stone Park contains the greatest concentration of rock art on the North American Great Plains. [citation needed] There are over 50 petroglyph sites and thousands of works. The park also showcases a North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) outpost reconstructed on its original site. The original outpost was burned down by persons unknown ...
William Lethbridge, 1825–1901, after whom the City of Lethbridge was named. 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 ...
William J. Smith was born on June 26, 1850, near Chesapeake City, Maryland, to Sarah J. (née Batton) and Samuel C. Smith. His father was a railroad worker. His maternal grandfather William Batton was a farmer and soldier in the War of 1812. Smith attended public schools. At the age of 21, he learned the trades of painter and paper hanger. [1 ...
William J. Smith may refer to: Bill Smith (baseball manager), 19th century baseball manager; William Jay Smith (Tennessee politician) (1823–1913) William J. Smith (Maryland politician) (1850–1906), American politician; William Jay Smith (1918–2015), American poet
The University of Lethbridge was established in 1967, one of two post-secondary institutions established in Lethbridge after World War II. After the CPR moved the divisional point of its Crowsnest Line from Fort Macleod to Lethbridge in 1905, the city became a regional centre for Southern Alberta; something the region did not have previously. [2]
Due to repeated floods throughout the 20th century (14 in total), people stopped living in the river valley and moved to the area above the valley, where most of Lethbridge is located today. [2] The park was created in the 1960s, a decade after the last houses were moved from the river valley.
William Jay Smith (April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015) was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. [ 1 ]
William Smith (16 September 1817 – 22 December 1891) was a Scottish architect.He was a son of John Smith, also an architect, and his mother was Margaret Grant.A partner in the Aberdonian firms J & W Smith (1845–1879), W & J Smith (1879–1887) and W & J Smith and Kelly (1887–1891), and employed as Aberdeen's superintendent of works (1852–1891), he designed a large number of buildings ...