Sweater donation brings history of the ‘Lethbridge Vets’ into focus

LETHBRIDGE— Thanks to a donation made to the Galt Museum and Archives back in 2018, a new chapter in both the hockey and military histories of Lethbridge has been opened. At first, collections technician Kevin MacLean was skeptical when he received a vintage sweater from the relatively unknown ‘Lethbridge Vets’ hockey team. It sounded too good to be true, until museum staff started to look closer into its background. The sweater was donated by Harold Palmer of Red Deer, whose f