Lethbridge, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Alberta's third city, LETHBRIDGE is booming on the back of oil, gas and some of the province's most productive agricultural land; none of which is of much consequence to people passing through, whom the city attempts to sidetrack with the Nikka Yuko Centennial Gardens (mid-May to June & Sept daily 9am–5pm; July–Aug daily 9am–9pm; closed Oct to mid-May; $4; tel 328-3511) in its southeastern corner at 7th Avenue and Mayor Macgrath Drive in Henderson Lake Park. Built in 1967 as a symbol of Japanese and Canadian amity, the gardens were a somewhat belated apology for the treatment of … more »