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English: Automatically generated series of street maps depicting Alberta urban communities. Municipal boundaries: AltaLIS open data accessed May 25, 2019. Road network: Statistics Canada NRN 2018.
The name "Medicine Hat" is an English interpretation of Saamis (SA-MUS) – the Blackfoot word for the eagle tail feather headdress worn by medicine men. [14] Several legends are associated with the name of a mythical mer-man river serpent named Soy-yee-daa-bee – the Creator – who appeared to a hunter and instructed him to sacrifice his wife to get mystical powers which were manifested in ...
Southern Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. In 2016, the region's population was approximately 291,112. [1] The primary cities are Lethbridge and Medicine Hat. The region is known mostly for agricultural production, but other sectors, such as alternative energy, film production and tourism, are emerging.
Within Medicine Hat, Highway 1 is a controlled access highway with 6 interchanges. [7] The majority of the highway in the city is a freeway; however, a section between the South Saskatchewan River and Seven Persons Creek still has a few at-grade intersections. The length of Highway 1 within Medicine Hat is 13 km (8 mi). [6]
Highway 3 was designated as one of the original core routes of the National Highway System in 1988, an interprovincial route connecting large population centres. [3] Most of the road is an undivided two-lane highway with a speed limit of 100 km/h (62 mph) outside of rural areas. [4]
It is located on Highway 41, approximately 120 km (75 mi) southeast of Medicine Hat. Wild Horse also serves as a port of entry into the U.S. state of Montana as it is located at a border crossing with the United States, where Highway 41 meets Montana Secondary Highway 232 . [ 1 ]
Alberta's 1 to 216 series of provincial highways are Alberta's main highways. They are numbered from 1 to 100, with the exception of the ring roads around Calgary and Edmonton, which are numbered 201 and 216 respectively. The numbers applied to these highways are derived from compounding the assigned numbers of the core north–south and east ...
Cypress-Medicine Hat is a provincial electoral district in the southeast corner of Alberta. Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency covers the portion of Medicine Hat south of the South Saskatchewan River , the Trans-Canada Highway and Carry Drive.