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Kerby Centre History

For nearly 50 years, Kerby Centre has been a place where seniors made friends, built community, learned, exercised, and sought resources. A place where “whole health” is the foundation of service and where aging is honoured.

Kerby Centre is a not-for-profit organization with programs and services in Calgary and Medicine Hat. Kerby Centre is committed to enhancing the ability of older adults 50+ to live healthy, productive lives with a focus on their mental, physical, social and emotional well-being.

Unison History
Founders
About our founder

In 1973, Patricia Allen founded Kerby Centre — a vision born from a life-long dedication to improving the quality of life for seniors.

Originally hailing from Toronto, Allen earned degrees from the University of Toronto and McGill before making her way westward to Calgary where she was the first graduate from the University of Calgary’s Master of Social Work program in 1969.

Kerby Centre 50 Stories

Discover Kerby Centre: 50 Years of Serving Seniors

Kerby Jubilee Storie..

Dec 24, 2023

Kerby Centre has served our community for 50 years, and to celebrate, our writer Andrew McCutcheon h..

A Finale; Part One

Dec 17, 2023

Fifty years. Fifty stories.

Santa’s coming to to..

Dec 10, 2023

Fifty years of Kerby Centre means we’ve had 50 years of holidays.

Veiner Centre History

Council meating

Written by Gillian Slade on August 28, 2020 and published in the Medicine Hat News

It has been 45 years since the first vision of the Veiner Centre emerged.

At a council meeting in October 1973, Mayor Harry Veiner offered an acre of land for the development of a senior citizens’ recreation facility.

In March 1974 an architectural drawing was approved by city council.

“The Veiner Centre is needed now,” reads a news story from the time. “It will be needed in the future. It should be built as a service to senior citizens who have made their contributions to the community’s growth and development and well-being.”
The province had covered 80% of the cost and the city chipped in the other 20%.

“Medicine Hat was very lucky. In the past 3 years seniors have been top priority with the provincial government,” said Bill Wyse, who in February 1977 was coordinator of Medicine Hat senior citizens services.

The Veiner Centre — open 7 days a week — was known as a “multi-purpose social service and cultural drop-in and information facility” available to all residents more than 50 years old.

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Land Acknowledgement

Land Acknowledgement: Treaty 7 Territory Land Acknowledgement

In the spirit of respect, reconciliation and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis, and the Treaty 7 territory on which we stand. This land belongs to the various nations of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we recognize that our work also reaches also to the lands belonging to the Cree, Sioux, and the Saulteaux bands of the Ojibwa in southeast Alberta.

This sacred gathering place provides us with an opportunity to engage in and demonstrate leadership on reconciliation.

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Charitable Number: 11897-9947-RR0001
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