Chamber Introduction - Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce

Welcome to the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce Website! The Chamber enjoys huge support from its members through their active role in the Chamber. Hundreds of business people volunteer their time to coordinate the Chamber's many activities and events, which are featured throughout the year.

ABOUT US

About Us

'Yesterday, today, and tomorrow': for over a century, the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce has voiced the interests of business and championed free enterprise, contributing the time, drive, and imagination of its members to the prosperity of the city.

Lethbridge's best-known landmark is its High Level Bridge. Ever since steelworkers riveted the last bolt to it in 1909, this engineering marvel has enabled the town to grow and prosper. Predating the bridge, though, is a civic marvel even more crucial to the prosperity of Lethbridge: the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce. Originally the Lethbridge Board of Trade and Civic Committee when it formed in 1889, the community-driven chamber has started or spearheaded almost every noteworthy civic endeavour for more than 100 years. First, the group incorporated Lethbridge as a civic entity, the Town of Lethbridge, in 1891. That done, the organization undertook other projects: creating water-sharing agreements with Montana, addressing postal concerns, building better roads and bridges, promoting and hosting the first Chautauqua (travelling tent show) in western Canada, bringing entertainment to the culturally starved prairies, and helping reopen the U.S. border to Canadian beef in 1952, along with many more projects that bettered the community. Major projects in which our chamber played a significant role include:

Lethbridge Research Station
Lethbridge Northern Irrigation
Exhibition Park
Junior Achievement
Lethbridge Public Library
Hire-A-Student
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
United Way
Lethbridge College
Crime Stoppers
Chinook Country Tourist Association
Southern Alberta Food Processing Consortium
University of Lethbridge

More recently, our Chamber was instrumental in helping Lethbridge recover its Airport of Entry status, an important trade advantage since no other metropolitan area in Alberta is closer to the United States.

Still a volunteer, community-driven organization, the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce continues to advocate positive change. The Lethbridge Chamber continues to forge alliances and vigorously lobby municipal, provincial, and federal decision makers for needed change. Like the famous bridge that connected the town to all of Canada, the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce connects the city to more prosperity and the promise of future growth.

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