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ID: 7013065
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013065
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lethbridge (inhabited place)  Lethbridge (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 43 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.7167  decimal degrees
Long: 112 48 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -112.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Oldman river SE of Calgary; Canadian Pacific Railway arrived 1885; base of nation's most extensive irrigation network; provincial headquarters of Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Names:
Lethbridge (preferred,C,V,O)  ............ renamed after president of NW Coal & Navigation Company, William Lethbridge 1885
Coalbanks (H,V)  ............ original 1880s

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Canada (nation)  ........  Canada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Province of Alberta (province)  ............  Province of Alberta (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Lethbridge (inhabited place)  ................  Lethbridge (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1880s, incorporated 1906
city (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Coalbanks..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 301
Lethbridge..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 301
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -567902
.......................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 110
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 301
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -567902
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 110
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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