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Bedrock of the Community
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Welcome - Tell us first about your collecting interests, and second how your city came to be called Medicine Hat.  |
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to the Community! |
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I LOVE Trade dollars and medallions. Most of mine are from Atlantic Canada. We do have some Alberta trade token collector on this forum though. Welcome aboard. |
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Thank for the welcome all. I do collect everything, but try and focus on Trade dollars and world coins (mainly European countries). As for the name of our town Medicine Hat. Many years ago, so the story goes, there was a great battle between the Cree and the Blackfoot on the banks of a southern Alberta river.The Cree fought valiantly until their medicine man deserted them... losing his headdress in mid-stream as he fled to the safety of the opposite shore. Believing this to be a bad omen, the Cree put down their weapons and we're massacred by the Blackfoot. The site of this tragedy was called "Saamis" an Native American word , meaning"Medicine man's hat". Years later, in 1882, when the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the CPR roadbuilders settled in the area, the Native name was then translated and shortened to Medicine Hat.    |
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Bedrock of the Community
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to CCF... I have to ask, what do you call yourselves? Hatters? -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Rest in Peace
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Probably Canadian.  |
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New Member
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Yes, Hatters. And when we refer to the city, we simply call it the Hat. As in welcome to the Hat.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Great story, Mr Davy - thanks!  Edited by Coinfrog
07/07/2016 6:19 pm
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to CCF, always happy to welcome another Canadian!! "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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New Member
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Hello
I am also a new member from Lloydminster, Saskatchewan and was hoping to find others interested in coins closer to my collection and must start somewhere so if you know of anyone near here please let me know. thankyou.
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Rest in Peace
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you might have better luck introducing yourself under a new title rather than adding on to someone else's introduction. But |
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Pillar of the Community
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to CCF. |
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