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ID: 7013065
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013065
Record Type:
administrative
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:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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Canada
(nation) (
P
)
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Province of Alberta
(province) (
P
)
................
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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