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Lethbridge’s historical loss will soon be Calgary’s gain.

Evicted from their 42-year digs at Lethbridge’s Fort Whoop-Up National Historic Site at the end of 2015, most of that museum’s artifacts are moving to Calgary where they’ll be exhibited, said curator Doran Degenstein.

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Last December, Degenstein described the feeling of having to leave the Lethbridge site as “numbing” but on Friday, he sounded upbeat at the prospect of moving north.

“We’ll have a new society location in the city of Calgary with a very dynamic partner,” he said.

“The society’s pretty excited – we’ve had our pause and regrouped.”

But because the agreement has yet to be finalized, Degenstein said he couldn’t divulge the name of that partner, only adding it’s not Heritage Park or the Glenbow Museum.

The items making the move range from vintage firearms to a stuffed bison to blankets and furniture.

A falling-out with the City of Lethbridge over compensation for his society for damage caused by a 2012 flood led to the departure of Degenstein’s Fort Whoop-Up Interpretive Society and its roughly 10,000 artifacts.