Casino Regina, the former Union Station, is a grand tyndall and ashlar stone structure located on Saskatchewan Drive in Regina, Saskatchewan. Union station (or depot or terminal are train stations used by more than one railroad company or line Tyndall Stone is a dolomitic Limestone quarried from the Selkirk member of the Ordovician Red River Formation in the vicinity of Tyndall Ashlar is dressed stone work of any type of stone Ashlar blocks are large rectangular blocks of Masonry sculpted to have square edges and even faces Regina (rɨˈdʒaɪnə is the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada. Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276
Union Station was constructed in 1911-12 and was actually Regina's third train station; the first is now a museum in Broadview, Saskatchewan. The station was completed the same year the deadly "Regina Cyclone" walloped the city, tearing through Wascana Park and gutting part of the downtown area. The Regina Cyclone is the popular name for a Tornado that devastated the city Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on June 30, 1912 Wascana Centre (formally established in 1962 is a 93 square kilometre (2300 acre park built around Wascana Lake in Regina Saskatchewan.
Union Station was designated as an official heritage site in 1991. There are a number of heritage registers around the world which keep lists of natural or man-made objects deemed to be of heritage value
In the early 1990's cutbacks to rail services throughout Canada lead to the closure of Regina's Union Station. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Station had been an important part of Regina's history and heritage since its opening in 1912. After the station's closure its fate remained unknown for several years.
In 1996 Casino Regina opened in the old Union Station therefore ensuring that this important landmark would remain a part of Regina for many years to come.
The building contains old railway police jail cells in the basement, that were used for transporting prisoners, and shows evidence of a tunnel representing a system of underground passages said to stretch several blocks east of the casino and south all the way to the stately Hotel Saskatchewan. The Hotel Saskatchewan is a Grand hotel located in downtown Regina Saskatchewan, Canada, overlooking Victoria Park. How these tunnels were used is anyone's guess, but one could likely assume they were used for illegal activities, perhaps rum running during prohibition, for one. Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, also known as Noble Experiment, refers to a Sumptuary law which prohibits Alcohol And there are rumours that Chicago gangster Al Capone was familiar with Regina and her tunnel system. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17 1899 &ndash January 25 1947 commonly nicknamed Scarface, was an Italian American Gangster who These tunnels were destroyed during the construction of the Cornwall Centre, a major downtown shopping complex. For other uses of the name "Cornwall Centre" see Cornwall Centre Cornwall Centre is a Shopping mall in Downtown Regina
Inside, positioned prominently on a wall in the central hall, is a schedule board displaying the arrivals and departures on the day the train station closed back in 1990. The central hall itself, formerly the station's "grand concourse", features a high ceiling with elegantly simple chandeliers and an all-important clock near the top of the feature wall.
The casino houses some 800 slot machines, 35 table games, and an 8-table poker room, as well as a larger room for its almost daily poker tournaments. The 800-seat Show Lounge features big-name entertainers, and reasonably-priced meals are served in The Last Spike and Rail Car restaurants, as well as in the CPR Lounge. And now, regularly scheduled Union Station historic tours add another attraction to this grand old building.
Casino Regina continues to be a major employer in the city, employing 664 people, over fifty percent of whom are Aboriginal. Aboriginal people in Canada, also known as Canadian aboriginal citizens, are people who belong to recognized indigenous groups in the Canadian Constitution Act
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