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by ahnationtalk on January 9, 2024112 Views
January 9, 2024.
Visitors to downtown may have recently noticed new signs posted at the entrance to alleyways in recent weeks.
The Back Alley Naming Project is an initiative of the Lethbridge Historical Society which is aimed at telling the stories behind people who helped build the city.
The society on its website says that when Lethbridge was first developed in 1885, streets were named after company officials and investors who were often wealthy people with no actual residence here.
So it conceived the idea that if “the rich people got the streets, everyone else should have the alleys.”
The plan of the project was to name downtown alleys after people who regularly used them in the late 19th century and early parts of the 20th century. The plan was to include people ranging from public health officials and store owners to police, firefighters and even bootleggers and madams.
” An attempt was also made to identify and include a diversity of people from different ethnicities and genders,” says the society.
No Indigenous names are included because during the years of the “Pass System,” they had to get permission from an Indian Agent to leave their reserves so very few First Nations people actually lived in Lethbridge.
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