Interesting Medicine Hat Facts

- Home to the Worlds Largest Teepee
- Medicine Hat receives 2,512 hours of sunshine annually, making it the sunniest city in Canada!
- The area only receives 230 millimeters of rain per year
- Medicine Hat has the only privately run gas and electrical utility company
- The city has over 100 parks and 85 km. of trails
- Medicine Hat holds the title as the city with the third lowest property taxes in Canada.
- The city’s area is 120 sq. km’s
- Also the Home of Canadian Idol Kalan Porter and Country Star Terri Clark
- Host to the 2008 Alberta Summer Games, Canada Cup Baseball 2008, Curling Continental Cup 2007
- Due to the fact that Alberta has no Provincial Sales tax it promotes cross border shopping for Saskatchewan