Medicine Hat

city in SE Alberta, Canada: pop. 47,000

Origin: prob. transl. of Blackfoot saamis, headdress of a medicine man

See Medicine Hat in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A city of southeast Alberta, Canada, near the Saskatchewan border southeast of Calgary. Founded in 1883, it is a trade center in a farming and ranching region. Population: 57,000.
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