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All About Medicine Hat


Medicine Hat is located approximately 295km southeast of Calgary, 169km east of Lethbridge and 146km north of the United States border.


Medicine Hat inherited its name from the native word “Saamis” which means medicine man’s hat.


Medicine Hat is Canada’s sunniest city with more than 2500 hours of sunshine a year.  It has the longest growing season in Alberta.  Summer temperatures average 20° and winter temperatures average at -13°C.  Chinook winds can raise the temperature by as much as 34°C in one day. Local up to date weather can be found by visiting http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-51_metric_e.html

The population of Medicine Hat is 63,271 (2021 census)


Transportation

Medicine Hat is located on the Trans-Canada Highway, Highway 3 and the Canadian Pacific Railway main line.


Medicine Hat Transit services the area.


The Medicine Hat Regional Airport is served by both regional and national airlines. Air Canada /Air Canada Jazz operates four flights a day to Calgary.



Government

City Council consists of a Mayor and eight Councillors, elected for a term of four years. The position of Mayor and Councillors are at-large elections, meaning that each person elected represents the City as a whole and not a particular ward or section of the City.


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Emergency Services

Call 911 if you require fire, police, or an ambulance!

Health Link Alberta

Phone: 811 or visit: Website

  Health Link is a free, confidential, 24 hour a day, 7 day a week nurse telephone advice and health information service. You can call from anywhere in Alberta and speak with a highly trained registered nurse who will provide you with advice and information about health symptoms and concerns.  Health Link can help you decide whether to care for yourself, make an appointment with your doctor, go to a clinic, contact a community service or go to a hospital emergency room.

In a medical emergency, always call 911 or go directly to your nearest Emergency Room (ER). 

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Medicine Hat City Council​

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Education

Elementary and Secondary Education Overview

District school boards administer publicly funded elementary and secondary schools. Working within the framework of Alberta’s Education Act and its regulations, district school boards adapt provincial education policy to local situations. Trustees, as elected members of the board, represent the local community and provide a link between electors and the education system.

 

Alberta Learning governs both the Public School Board and the Separate (Catholic) School Board, which are run as separate entities.

 

Children aged 6 to 16 must attend school. Most opt to remain in school to earn their grade 12 diploma. The high school program is based on the credit system; students earn 1 credit for every 25 hours of instruction. To graduate with a diploma, each student must have 100 credits in Compulsory and Optional courses. Most courses are worth between 3 and 5 credits. To broaden their high school program, students are required to have 10 credits from either Career and Technical studies, Physical Education, Fine Arts, or a second language. Also they are required to have 10 credits from more in-depth studies (i.e. English, Biology, Physics, etc.).

 

Alberta is a part of the Western Canadian Protocol for Collaboration in Basic Education Kindergarten to Grade 12. This is a project that involves The Northwest Territories, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Nunavut. They are working on developing common curriculum formats for math, computer guided learning, languages, and cultures.

 

Public Schools

Medicine Hat School District #76 operates 11 elementary (Kindergarten to Grade 6), 3 middle schools and 3 secondary schools (Grade 7 to 12).

 

Catholic Schools

The Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education offer a full academic catholic education program for children in Kindergarten to Grade 12.  They have 6 elementary schools, 2 middle schools and 1 high school in Medicine Hat.

 

Post Secondary 

Medicine Hat College offers a wide variety of programs to meet the ever-changing needs of students.

   

Lifestyle

Recreation

The Parks and Recreation Department offers a number of programs and activities through their recreation centres and parks.  For more information, please visit Parks, Recreation and Culture


Arts & Culture

Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre

401 First Street SE
Medicine Hat, AB T1A8W2
Phone: 403-502-8580
Website: http://www.esplanade.ca


Saamis Tepee
Medicine Hat’s most visible landmark is the Saamis Tepee.

 

Medicine Hat Public Library
414 First Street SE
Medicine Hat, AB
Phone: 403-502-8525

Golf

Golf courses in Medicine Hat include the Connaught Golf Club , Medicine Hat Golf and Country Club , and Cottonwood Coulee Golf Course.

Off-Leash Areas

The Parks and Recreation Department has installed signs at a number of leisure trails indicating if it is considered a dog off-leash or on-leash area.

  • Click here for a written description of the off-leash trails in Medicine Hat

 

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