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Galt Companies | |||
The companies were: North Western Coal & Navigation Company,
Limited, formed in 1882, absorbed by the Alberta Railway & Coal
Company in 1889; Alberta Railway & Coal Company, formed in 1884,
absorbed by the Alberta Railway & Irrigation Company in 1904;
Lethbridge Land Company Limited, formed in 1888, absorbed by the
AR&ICo in 1904; Alberta The AR&I company was purchased outright, partly by conveyance and partly by 999-year lease by the Canadian Pacific Railway on 1 January 1912. (The CPR retained the corporate name, Alberta Railway & Irrigation Company, which is still listed on land titles as owning mineral rights to a large area of southern Alberta.)
The Montana section of the 1890 narrow gauge had cost the
Galts about $2.0 million to build. It was purchased by J. J.
Hill for $750,000.
This article is extracted from Alex
Johnston, Keith G. Gladwyn and L. Gregory Ellis. Lethbridge:
Its Coal Industry (Lethbridge, Lethbridge: City of Lethbridge,
1989), Occasional Paper No. 20, The Lethbridge Historical
Society. The Heritage Community Foundation and the Year
of the Coal Miner Consortium (of which the City of Lethbridge is
the lead partner) would like to thank the authors for permission
to reprint this material. |
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