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Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
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Latest · 2018 · of 415
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Saamis country with gas underfoot
Medicine Hat in brief
Medicine Hat takes its English name from Saamis, the Blackfoot word for a medicine man's eagle-tail headdress. Blackfoot, Cree, and Assiniboine peoples gathered for centuries in the South Saskatchewan valley where cottonwoods and waterways drew bison herds. Archaeology at the Saamis site later turned up tools, pottery, and butchered bone from occupations around AD 1500 and 1750.
The railway town grew into a gas capital; Rudyard Kipling famously said it had all hell for a basement. Environment Canada ranks it among Canada's sunniest cities, and the oversized Saamis Tepee still marks the skyline for drivers on the Trans-Canada.
Drawn from Wikipedia, Atlas Obscura.
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Worth knowing in Medicine Hat
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It is located along the South Saskatchewan River, west of the Saskatchewan border.
It is approximately 169 kilometres (105 mi) east of Lethbridge, and 295 km (183 mi) southeast of Calgary.
The city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff to the northwest are within Cypress County.
Rudyard Kipling called Medicine Hat a city with all hell for a basement after learning of the natural gas reserves under the area.
Places to see
Saamis Tepee
Designed for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics as a symbol of Indigenous heritage, this steel teepee was moved to Medicine Hat in 1991 and stands over 20 stories high overlooking a Blackfoot buffalo jump.
