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Between 1883, with the arrival of rail, and 1914, the beginning of World War One, Medicine Hat grew from a few tents to 14,000 soles. This period was Medicine Hat’s childhood, growing fast and healthy.  No part of the city showed this juvenile vigor more than the downtown core, where friends met, business was conducted, and people showed their optimism about a future of continued boom and affluence.

  
A Tent Town – 1883 Looking north-east. The beginnings of the railway bridge were put into place before the railroad actually arrived, as bridge construction was a much more intensive process than building the rails across the flat prairie leading into Medicine Hat from the east. The area of Medicine Hat was frequented by First Nations peoples before the arrival of the rails, but the rails brought the first permanent residents.

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