The Historical Society of Medicine Hat & District

11/21/2025

Tonight, Medicine Hat's rich aviation history is being celebrated through a talk by local heritage champion Wes Krause, focusing on the Canadian Aviation Historical Society's local chapter and 'The Lost 48'.

10/20/2025

Don’t miss an evening with Medicine Hat history! 📜

Join local historian Lorine Marshall for a special presentation as she shares the incredible life story of Captain William Parker, NWMP. From his courageous start as a Mountie on the prairie frontier in 1874 to his final posting in Medicine Hat in 1905, Captain Parker is remembered as one of the Hat’s old timers.

🗓️ Date: October 22, 2025
🕖 Time: 7 p.m.
📍 Location: Morrow Hall, St John’s Church
🚗 Free parking in Esplanade lot
🎟️ Free admission

Bring your friends and family to enjoy a piece of our local heritage!

09/23/2025

"The Inconvenient Husband": Women & Homesteading in Western Canada

Many of us are descendants of homesteaders who moved to this region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Few of us are aware that homesteading in Canada was legally a male opportunity then and that women, unless they were widowed with children, were denied it. Despite such barriers, women did become homesteaders, farmers and ranchers although according to one female critic it seemed like you needed to get rid of an inconvenient husband to qualify for a homestead.

These women, the obstacles they faced and how they overcame them will be the focus of a presentation, hosted by the Historical Society of Medicine Hat and District, by Dr. Sarah Carter, recently retired as Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair Emerita in the Department of History, Classics and Religion, and the Faculty of Native Studies of the University of Alberta. Originally from Saskatoon, she is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Manitoba and has taught at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Calgary before joining the University of Alberta in 2006. She is the author of several historical important works on Western Canada including Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy; “Ours By Every Law of Right and Justice:” Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces; and Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies.

This presentation will take place at Medicine Hat’s historic Monarch Theatre on Thursday, September 25, 2025 following a brief business summary which begins at 7:00 PM. Memberships can be renewed or obtained for $10.00 at the door and refreshments are available upon entry. For additional information please contact R.B. Shepard, President, Historical Society of Medicine Hat and District at [email protected] or by calling 403-527-5440.

07/28/2025

The 2025 Annual General Meeting held on May 22nd with a short meeting, the election of a new board, and a most impressive Show & Tell from a number of our members. See you in September.

03/28/2025

“The Rescue of the McKenzie Sharland Grocery” was presented on Thursday, 20 March 2025, by Malcolm Sissons, who focused on the successful efforts to save the historic home in Medicine Hat.

03/20/2025

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A presentation titled The Rescue of the McKenzie Sharland Grocery is on-deck at Medicine Hat's historic Monarc...