Inspire Cafe is in a building from 1901-1912, transpired from tents to bricks.

The building that is now the heart of Medicine Hat grew from the land - from the new to the old. The good to the hard life then to empty lives to full of art.

The co-owner Maureen states, “When life got hard, art moved in. I love the Café as I do the Hat!”

The walls are blessed with Maureen’s view of “halo’d” children and chickens seen from a well bottom as they looked down on her. (Maureen fell down a well and was trapped for 24 hours. Only her 3-year old son and the chickens knew she was down there. As they peered down the well, she saw the halo of light around them. After figuring out she wasn’t going to be rescued, she wiggled her way up the well. The spirit of her adventure is captured in 16 pieces of her art. That lasting memory is seen on her canvases.)