Off to study the Esquimaux. Roughing it in the land of snow yes but not the land of igloos. No, the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Alberta, Canada. Every refinement and a boiler in the basement heating the place up to a fare thee well.

Canadian, Photographs 2 Minutes

Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Inaugural banquet at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Associations, Clubs and Societies:  Inaugural banquet at the Cosmopolitan Hotel following the first “Ritual of Jewels” ceremony for the Sorority. These ladies are the Charter Members of the Beta Sigma Phi in Medicine Hat. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. October 1945 image. Photographer not given. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. vhttps://collections.esplanade.ca/list?q=Cosmopolitan&p=1&ps=20&src_facet=Photograph
The Bachelors of the Cosmopolitan Hotel: portrait of five men, three unidentified, members of the Bachelors Club of the Cosmopolitan Hotel.Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Photograph ca. 1906. J. E. Miers, Medicine Hat, photographer. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images103109

Inside view of the dining room in the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Looks like its set up for a party or banquet. Undated photograph 1890s-1915? partly because of the Victorian/Edwardian planter filled with ferns.
Gainsborough Studio, Medicine Hat, photographers. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images71093
Cosmopolitan Hotel, South Railway Street and Fourth Street Southeast. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Image ca. 1912. George N. Bartlett, Medicine Hat, photographer. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images71445
“Public parlour” of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, showing piano and seating arrangement, and gas light fixtures. Also potted ferns. Taken from hand-tinted original Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. ca. 1900. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images107855
Interior view of the front half of the lobby of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Shows entryway, lobby seating, elaborate gas and electric fixtures, stained glass windows, front registration desk, and stairway to the second floor. Two hotel guests can be seen through the front window seated in chairs outside. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Image ca. 1900. Photographer not given. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images107856

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Silver Anniversary banquet in the decorated dining room of the Cosmopolitan Hotel – engineers and their ladies. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Loving the ceiling decorations. January 1923 image. Photographer not given. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images109638

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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