Archives Database Maintenance
July 7, 2020 - July 9, 2020
The Archives on-line database will be unavailable from July 7-9th due to maintenance.
Learn MoreJuly 7, 2020 - July 9, 2020
The Archives on-line database will be unavailable from July 7-9th due to maintenance.
Learn MoreFebruary 15, 2020 - October 2, 2020
Western Canada has pondered the question of what we drink, how much and where, since the creation of the North West Mounted Police in 1873.
Learn MoreJuly 20, 2019 - October 5, 2019
Lights flashing, motors whirring, food scents wafting through the air. . . A hawker shouts, “Step right up!” and you are back in time with the fun of midways, fairs and carnivals in the Hat.
Learn MoreOctober 12, 2019 - February 1, 2020
Voices joined in chorus have raised our spirits since the early days of the city. We come together to sing in worship, remembrance, and joy.
Learn MoreJuly 6, 2019 - August 31, 2019
Again this year, the Esplanade Archives in collaboration with the Historical Society of Medicine Hat and District present Living History Presentation Series. A series of video interviews of people who make a difference in our community.
Learn MoreMay 4, 2019
Join the ranks of the Esplanade Flight School for the afternoon where you will pass admission tests and have a blast experimenting with PRAXIS as you get a crash course in aviation science!
Learn MoreMarch 9, 2019 - July 13, 2019
A bird on high in a blue, blue sky. Who can see this and not be enthralled by the wonder of flight? Hatters are no different.
Learn MoreJuly 24, 2018
The previously untold story of Canada’s second-largest mass hanging which involved four Nazi POWs, a pedophile child murderer, and Canada’s last (un)official hangman.
Learn MoreDecember 8, 2018 - February 23, 2019
In the late 1880s the Jenkins family began a new life in Medicine Hat.
Learn MoreNovember 1, 2017
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, get inside information about Medicine Hat’s prosperous boom industries directly from our Archivist Philip Pype, with a mural-sized historical panorama that offers a window through time.
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