Celebrating 125 Years in Operation

On May 28th, 1900, our Chamber of Commerce was founded under the Boards of Trade Act by a group of business people including bankers, barristers, ranchers, merchants, contractors, physicians, a hotelier, a lumber dealer and a butcher.

5 years later, on September 1st, 1905, Alberta officially became a province.

Around a year after Alberta became a province, on May 9th, 1906, the City of Medicine Hat was founded. It is in Medicine Hat where our main Chamber Office was and still is located.

We changed our name through Corporations Canada from the Medicine Hat Board of Trade to the Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber updated its name through Corporations Canada to the Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce.

Creation of a standing Business Advocacy and Liaison Committee, (formerly the Policy and Advocacy Committee and Business Advocacy Committee) to act as our policy arm and formalize our advocacy role. Did you know your local Chamber of Commerce works with all three levels of Government?

We needed something new... so we got a brand refresh and new brand strategy!

Over the years, the Chamber has been known as the Medicine Hat Board of Trade, the Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce, the Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce. In April 2024, we were approved to change our name through Corporations Canada to the Southeast Alberta Chamber of Commerce.

After being invited into the Brooks-Newell area, we expanded our boundaries which now include Bassano, Brooks, Cypress County, Duchess, Medicine Hat, Newell County, Redcliff, and Rosemary; expanding the district from its former boundaries of Medicine Hat, Cypress County and Redcliff.

May 2025 officially marks 125 years of the Chamber of Commerce being in operation! That is also 15,00 months or 45,625 days in case you were curious.