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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 ...
Lethbridge is home to Lethbridge Polytechnic, founded in 1957, and the University of Lethbridge, founded in 1967. Red Crow Community College has a campus in the city. During the 2015–2016 school year, the University of Lethbridge and the Lethbridge Polytechnic had a combined enrolment of 14,820, which represented 20% of the city's population ...
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 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
An interview with Smith is included in Meetings with Maritime Poets: Interviews (2006) by Anne Compton. In 2002, Smith was the first to be appointed poet laureate of Prince Edward Island, and held the position until 2004. [3] [4] Smith died on 16 March 2018, aged 90. [5]
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 ...
John Smith Stewart was born 16 May 1878 in the Brampton, Ontario, to John Stewart and Mary Armstrong. Stewart moved to Edmonton at the age of 19 in 1896. [1] Stewart later studied dentistry at University of Toronto, completing his studies in 1903. He moved to Lethbridge and married Jean McClure on 25 September 1907; she died in 1914.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site is located in the village of Flat Rock, North Carolina, and preserves Connemara, the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer Carl Sandburg. Sandburg and his family moved here in 1945 for the peace and solitude needed for his writing and for the roughly 30 acres of pastureland for his wife, Lilian ...