Regina
Flag Seal
Nickname: The Queen City
Motto: Floreat Regina ("Let Regina Flourish")
Location of Regina in the SE quadrant of Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 50°26′10″N 104°37′05″W / 50.43611, -104.61806
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
District	Municipality of Sherwood
Established	1882
Government
- City Mayor	Pat Fiacco
- Governing body	Regina City Council
- MPs	Dave Batters Ralph Goodale Tom Lukiwski Andrew Scheer
- MLAs	Ron Harper Bill Hutchinson Warren McCall Sandra Morin John Nilson Laura Ross Christine Tell Kim Trew Harry Van Mulligen Trent Wotherspoon Kevin Yates
Area
- City	118. A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second largest country in total area. Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276 List of Mayors of Regina Saskatchewan: From the date of incorporation as a Town on December 1 1883: 1884 Pat Fiacco is the current Mayor of Regina, the capital city of Saskatchewan, Canada. Regina City Council is the governing body of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The House of Commons (Chambre des communes is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and David Batters (born July 12, 1969 in Estevan, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician Ralph Edward Goodale, PC, MP (born October 5, 1949, in Regina Saskatchewan) was Canada 's Minister of Finance Tom Lukiwski (born October 5, 1951) is a Canadian politician He is the current Conservative Member of Parliament for the Saskatchewan Andrew Scheer (born May 20, 1979) is a Canadian Member of Parliament. The Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan is one of two components of the Legislature of Saskatchewan, the other being the Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan Ron Harper is a Canadian provincial Politician. He is the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Bill Hutchinson is a Canadian politician He was elected to represent the electoral district of Regina South in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan Warren McCall is a Canadian provincial Politician. He is the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the Sandra Morin is a Canadian provincial politician She has been the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan John Nilson is a Canadian Politician in Saskatchewan. He is presently the Minister of Environment Minister responsible for SaskPower and the Laura Ross is a Canadian politician She was elected to represent the electoral district of Regina Qu'Appelle Valley in the Legislative Assembly Christine Tell is a Canadian politician She was elected to represent the electoral district of Regina Wascana Plains in the Legislative Assembly Kim Trew is a Canadian provincial Politician. He is the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the constituency Harry Van Mulligen is a Canadian provincial Politician. He is the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Trent Wotherspoon is a Canadian politician He was elected to represent the electoral district of Regina Rosemont in the Legislative Assembly Kevin Yates is a Canadian politician currently serving as an MLA in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the Constituency of Regina Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 87 km² (45. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 9 sq mi)
- Metro	3,408. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 26 km² (1,315. 94 sq mi)
Elevation	577 m (1,893 ft)
Population (2006)
- City	179,246 (Ranked 24th)
- Density	1,507. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The table below lists the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population, using data from the Canada 2006 census for Census subdivisions This list Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 9/km² (3,905. 4/sq mi)
- Metro	201,000
- Metro Density	57. A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large Metropolis and its adjacent zone of influence or of more than one closely adjoining neighboring central 2/km² (148. 15/sq mi)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
NTS Map	072I07
GNBC Code	HAIMP
Website: http://www.regina.ca/

Regina (IPA: /rɨˈdʒaɪnə/) is the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada. Areas using UTC−6 Single zone countries Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala The National Topographic System or NTS (Système national de référence cartographique is the topographic system used by Canada for providing general Geographical Names Board of Canada is a national committee of the Canadian Government Department of National Resources which authorizes the names used on official Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276 Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The city is the second largest in the province (after Saskatoon), and is a cultural and commercial metropole for both southern Saskatchewan and adjacent areas in the neighbouring American states of North Dakota and Montana. Saskatoon is a city located in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River, with a North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern It attracts visitors for the vitality of its commerce, theatre, concerts and restaurants and to its summer agricultural exhibition (originally established in 1884 as the Assiniboia Agricultural Association and since the mid-1960s styled "Buffalo Days"^[1]). It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina City Council is the governing body of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic^[2] and Romanian Orthodox^[3] Dioceses of Regina and the Anglican Diocese of Qu'Appelle. An episcopal see is the ecclesiastical domain of authority of a Bishop. The Romanian Orthodox Church ( Biserica Ortodoxă Română in Romanian) is a Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglican churches, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a Bishop. Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs The Diocese of Qu’Appelle in the Anglican Church of Canada lies in the southern third of the civil province of Saskatchewan and contains within its geographical ^[4] Citizens of Regina are referred to as Reginans.

Regina was previously the headquarters of the North-West Territories, of which today's provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta originally formed part. The Northwest Territories (ˌnɔrθˌwɛstˈtɛrɨtɔriz ( NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory Alberta (ælˈbɝtə is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1 1905 Regina was the headquarters of the District of Assiniboia. Assiniboia refers to a number of different locations and administrative jurisdictions in Canada. Regina was named in 1882 after Queen Victoria, i. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland e. Victoria Regina, by her daughter Princess Louise, wife of the then-Governor General the Marquess of Lorne. For other persons of the same name see John Campbell or Duke of Argyll. ^[5]

Unlike other planned cities in the Canadian West, on its treeless flat plain Regina was a tabula rasa, without topographical features other than the small spring run-off Wascana Creek. Early planners took advantage of such opportunity by damming the creek to create a decorative lake to the south of the central business district and constructing the elaborate 850-foot long Albert Street Bridge across the new lake. Regina's importance was further secured when the new province of Saskatchewan designated the city its capital in 1906. ^[6] Wascana Centre, created around the artificial focal point of Wascana Lake, remains Regina's signal attraction and contains the Provincial Legislative Building, both campuses of the University of Regina, the provincial museum of natural history, the Regina Conservatory (in the original Regina College buildings), the Saskatchewan Science Centre,^[7] the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery and the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts. Wascana Centre (formally established in 1962 is a 93 square kilometre (2300 acre park built around Wascana Lake in Regina Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Legislative Building is located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and serves as the seat of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. The Royal Saskatchewan Museum was established in Regina as the Provincial Museum in 1906 to "secure and preserve natural history specimens and objects of historical The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. Conexus Arts Centre, known from 1970 till 2006 (and still largely known as the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts, is a theatre complex located within Wascana Centre

Residential neighbourhoods in Regina are largely indistinguishable from those in other western Canadian cities but several precincts beyond the historic city centre are historically or socially noteworthy. Regina ' s residential areas apart from the remaining residential portion of the original town between the CPR tracks and Wascana Lake to the immediate south Immediately to the north of the central business district is the old warehouse district, increasingly the focus of shopping and residential development;^[8] as in other western cities of North America, the periphery contains shopping malls and big box stores. A central business district ( CBD) is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city Big-box store is a term that refers to a style of physically large Chain store, and by extension to the company behind the store Generally a prosperous and tranquil city, its long-problematic north-central sector and the difficult Scott Collegiate have in recent years become the focus of national attention for their poverty, drug abuse and prostitution. ^[9] Regina is notable for its aboriginal and Métis population, the seventh largest in any Canadian urban centre^[10] (Regina is Canada's 18th-largest metropolitan area by population^[11]), the original North-West Territories Government House and the original North-West Territorial government buildings. The Northwest Territories (ˌnɔrθˌwɛstˈtɛrɨtɔriz ( NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory Government House, Regina Saskatchewan, was constructed as a residence for the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, whose In 1912, Regina was a focus of international attention when the Regina Cyclone destroyed much of the town;^[12] in the 1930s, the Regina Riot brought further attention and, in the midst of the 1930s drought and Great Depression, which hit the Canadian Prairies particularly hard with their economic focus on dryland grain farming,^[13] the CCF (now the NDP, an important left-wing political party in all provinces west of Quebec), formulated its foundation Regina Manifesto in Regina. The Regina Cyclone is the popular name for a Tornado that devastated the city Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on June 30, 1912 The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a 1935 social movement of Unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF (French Fédération du commonwealth coopératif, then Parti social démocratique du Canada) was a Canadian Principles policies and electoral achievement The NDP grew from populist, agrarian and democratic socialist roots The Regina Manifesto was the programme of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was adopted at the first national convention of the ^[14] In recent years, Saskatchewan's resources have come into new demand, and it is anticipated that it will enter into new period of strong economic growth. ^[15]

History

Main article: History of Regina

See also: History of Northwest Territories capital cities

The eponymous Pile of Bones^[16]

Regina was established in 1882 when it became clear that Edgar Dewdney, the lieutenant-governor of the North-West Territories, eschewed the previously established and considered Battleford, Troy and Fort Qu'Appelle (the latter two both some 30 miles to the east), as the territorial headquarters: these were widely considered more amiable locations for what was anticipated would be a far more major metropole for the Canadian plains than actually eventuated, situated as they were in amply watered and treed rolling parklands whereas "Pile-of-Bones," as the site was then called,^[17] was in the midst of arid and featureless grassland. Regina is the capital of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and prior to the province's founding was the territorial headquarters of Fort Garry Manitoba (1870–1876 See also Fort Garry The Government of Canada purchased the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land from Edgar Dewdney PC ( 5 November 1835 &ndash August 8, 1916) was a Canadian politician born in Devonshire See also History of Northwest Territories capital cities Battleford ( 2006 Population 3685 is a town Fort Qu'Appelle is a town located in the Qu'Appelle Valley in southern Saskatchewan, Canada

Lieutenant-Governor Edgar Dewdney had acquired land adjacent to the route of the future CPR line at Pile-of-Bones, which was distinguished only by collections of bison bones near a small spring run-off creek, some few kilometres downstream from its origin in the midst of what are now wheat fields. Edgar Dewdney PC ( 5 November 1835 &ndash August 8, 1916) was a Canadian politician born in Devonshire There was an "obvious conflict of interest" in Dewdney's promoting the site of Pile-of-Bones as the territorial headquarters^[18]and it was a national scandal at the time,^[19] but until 1897, when responsible government was accomplished in the Territories,^[20] the lieutenant-governor and council governed by fiat and there was little legitimate means of challenging such decisions outside the federal capital of Ottawa, where the Territories were remote and of little concern. Responsible government is a conception of a System of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability which is the foundation of the Westminster Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality. Commercial considerations prevailed, however, and the town's authentic development began as a collection of wooden shanties and tent shacks clustered around the site designated by the CPR for its future station, and not two miles to the east where Dewdney had reserved substantial landholdings for himself and where he sited Government House. The Canadian Pacific Railway ( Government House, Regina Saskatchewan, was constructed as a residence for the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, whose ^[21]

Donald C. McDougall and his shack (1882), the first house in Regina, now cnr Arcola Ave and Prince of Wales Drive, 1883. ^[22]

Regina attained national prominence in 1885 during the North-West Rebellion when troops were mostly able to be transported by train on the CPR from eastern Canada as far as Qu'Appelle Station,^[23] before marching to the battlefield in the further Northwest — Qu'Appelle having been the major debarkation and distribution centre until 1890 when the construction of the Qu’Appelle, Long Lake, and Saskatchewan Railway linked Regina with Saskatoon and Prince Albert. The North-West Rebellion (or North-West Resistance or the Saskatchewan Rebellion) of 1885 was a brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis ^[24] Subsequently, the rebellion's leader, Louis Riel, was tried and hanged in Regina — giving the infant community increased and not unwelcome national attention in connection with a figure who was generally at the time considered an unalloyed villain in anglophone Canada. Louis Riel (22 October 1844 &ndash 16 November 1885 in English was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis ^[25]

Corner of South Railway Street (later renamed Saskatchewan Drive) and Scarth Street looking south, circa 1915. Note old Post Office at Scarth Street and 11th Avenue on left.

Regina was incorporated as a city on June 19, 1903 and was proclaimed the capital of the province of Saskatchewan on May 23, 1906 by the first provincial government, led by Premier Walter Scott; the monumental Saskatchewan Legislative Building was built between 1908 and 1912. Events 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting A premier is a title for the Head of government in some countries Thomas Walter Scott (known less formally as Walter Scott) ( October 27 1867 &ndash March 23 1938) was the first Premier The Saskatchewan Legislative Building is located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and serves as the seat of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan On June 30 1912, a tornado known as the Regina Cyclone hit the community, levelling much of the young city's business district, killing 28 people and injuring hundreds, making it Canada's deadliest tornado. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper The Regina Cyclone is the popular name for a Tornado that devastated the city Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on June 30, 1912

Regina's early history is remembered for its rapid growth which continued until the Great Depression began in 1929, at which point Saskatchewan had been the third province of Canada^[26] in both population and economic indicators. Thereafter, Saskatchewan never recovered its early promise and Regina's growth slowed and at times reversed, although a recent resources boom promises to rekindle development. From the 1930s onward, Regina became a centre of considerable political activism and experiment as its people sought to adjust to new, reduced economic realities.

Main article: Regina neighbourhoods

New Regina City Hall (1976)

As in other Canadian cities, the disappearance of the Simpson's and Eaton's retail department stores in the central business district^[27] as well as the proliferation of shopping malls beginning in the 1960s and "big box stores" in the '90s on the periphery, together with a corresponding drift of entertainment venues (and all former downtown cinemas) to the city outskirts, have depleted the city centre. Regina ' s residential areas apart from the remaining residential portion of the original town between the CPR tracks and Wascana Lake to the immediate south The Robert Simpson Company, or Simpsons ( Simpson's until 1972 was a Canadian Department store chain founded by Robert Simpson in Eaton's was once Canada 's largest Department store Retailer. Big-box store is a term that refers to a style of physically large Chain store, and by extension to the company behind the store The former Hudson's Bay Company department store (previously the site of the Regina Theatre) has been converted into offices; Globe Theatre, located in the old Post Office building at 11th Avenue and Scarth Street, Casino Regina and its show lounge in the old CPR train station, the Cornwall Centre and downtown restaurants now draw people downtown although mooted development of large retail commercial and residential subdivisions in the southwest near the airport will inevitably further compromise efforts to revitalize the central business district. The Bay is a chain of 94 fashion Department stores that operate across parts of Canada. The Globe Theatre in Regina Saskatchewan, was founded in 1966 by Ken and Sue Kramer Casino Regina, the former Union Station, is a grand tyndall and Ashlar stone structure located on Saskatchewan Drive in Regina, Saskatchewan For other uses of the name "Cornwall Centre" see Cornwall Centre Cornwall Centre is a Shopping mall in Downtown Regina

The old "gingerbread" 1908 City Hall on 11th Avenue between Rose and Scarth Streets; Medical Arts Building in the background.

Main article: Regina's historic buildings and precincts

Many buildings of significance and value were lost during the period from 1945 through approximately 1970: Knox United Church was demolished in 1951; the Romanesque Revival city hall in 1964 (the failed shopping mall which replaced it is now office space for the Government of Canada^[28]) and the 1894 Supreme Court of the North-West Territories building at Hamilton Street and Victoria Avenue in 1965. Many historically significant buildings in Regina Saskatchewan were lost during the period 1945 through approximately 1970 when the urge to "modernize" overtook developers' Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque style The Canadian Government, formally Her Majesty's Government in Canada, is the Federal government of Canada. The Court of Queen's Bench of Saskatchewan is the Superior court for the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. More recently old buildings have been put to new uses, including the old Normal School on the Regina College campus of the University of Regina (now the Canada-Saskatchewan Soundstage) and the Old Post Office on the Scarth Street Mall. The Canada-Saskatchewan Soundstage is located in Regina, Saskatchewan at the corner of College Avenue and Broad Street and is at the site of the former The Prince Edward Building is the current official (albeit seldom noted name of the old post office building in Regina Saskatchewan, located at the corner of Scarth Street The Warehouse District, immediately adjacent to the central business district to the north of the CPR line, has become a desirable commercial and residential precinct as historic warehouses have been converted to retail and residential use. Many historically significant buildings in Regina Saskatchewan were lost during the period 1945 through approximately 1970 when the urge to "modernize" overtook developers' ^[29]

Government House, Regina

The long-imperilled Government House was saved in 1981 after decades of neglect and returned to viceregal use,^[30] the former Anglican diocesan property at Broad Street and College Avenue is being redeveloped with strict covenants to maintain the integrity of the diocesan buildings and St Chad's School^[31] and the former Sacred Heart Academy building^[32] immediately adjacent to the Roman Catholic Cathedral has been converted to tony townhouses. Holy Rosary Cathedral at 13th Avenue and Garnet Street in Regina Saskatchewan, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina

Events of national political importance which occurred in Regina include

• the trial of Louis Riel (followed by Riel's execution) in July 1885;
• the adoption in 1933 by the new CCF (now the NDP) of the Regina Manifesto, which set out the new party's goals^[33];
• the Regina Riot on 1 July 1935^[34];
• the 1944 election of the CCF under T.C. Douglas, the first social democratic government in North America^[35] and a pioneer of numerous social programs – notably of course Medicare^[36] – which were later adopted in other provinces and nationally; and
• the Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike in 1962 when medical doctors withheld their services in response to the introduction of Medicare with the enactment of the Medical Care Insurance Act, 1961 (Sask. The Trial of Louis Riel was arguably the most famous trial in the history of Canada. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF (French Fédération du commonwealth coopératif, then Parti social démocratique du Canada) was a Canadian Principles policies and electoral achievement The NDP grew from populist, agrarian and democratic socialist roots The Regina Manifesto was the programme of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was adopted at the first national convention of the The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a 1935 social movement of Unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, PC, CC, SOM ( October 20, 1904 – February 24, 1986) was a )^[37]

Geography and climate

Downtown Regina in winter: Victoria Avenue looking east; Avord Tower (on the site of the original Supreme Court of Saskatchewan, previously the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories, building) on the left; Saskatchewan Power Building on the right

Regina has a semi-arid continental climate (Koppen climate classification BSk) with warm, somewhat moist summers and cold, dry winters. The Court of Queen's Bench of Saskatchewan is the Superior court for the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. A Semi-arid climate or steppe climate generally describes climatic regions that receive low annual Rainfall (250-500 mm or 10-20 in The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems It was developed by Wladimir Köppen, a German climatologist Annual precipitation is 390 mm (17 inches), and is heaviest from June through August with June being the wettest month at 75 millimetres. The average daily temperature for the year is 2. 8°C (37°F). The Celsius Temperature scale was previously known as the centigrade scale. Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736 a German Physicist who proposed it in 1724 The lowest temperature ever recorded was -50. 0 °C (-58 °F) on January 1, 1885 while the highest recorded temperature was 43. New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common 3 °C (109. 9 °F) on July 5, 1937. Events 1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ^[38]

East Regina Neighbourhood

The city is situated on a broad, flat, treeless plain. There is an abundance of parks and greenspaces: all of its trees — some 300,000^[39] — shrubs and other plants were hand-planted and Regina's considerable beauty is entirely man-made. ^[40] As in other prairie cities, American elms were planted in front yards in residential neighbourhoods and on boulevards along major traffic arteries and are the dominant species in the urban forest. Ulmus americana, generally known as the American Elm or less commonly as the White Elm or Water Elm, is a species native to eastern The streetscape is now endangered by Dutch elm disease, which has spread through North America from the eastern seaboard and has now reached the Canadian prairies; for the time being it is controlled by intense pest management programs and species not susceptible to the disease are being planted; the disease has the potential to wipe out Regina's entire elm population. Dutch elm disease (DED is a fungal disease of Elm trees which is spread by the Elm bark beetle. ^{[41] [42]}

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Regina, Saskatchewan

Ethnic configuration of Regina according to the 2001 census

According to the Canada 2006 Census^[43]:

^[44]

The Canada 2006 Census indicates Regina's ethnic configuration to be, in order of size: (1) German, (2) English, (3) Scottish, (4) Irish, (5) Ukrainian, (6) French, (7) Aboriginal, (8) Polish and (9) Norwegian, with a significant Asian and South Asian component as well, although actually the third largest constituency was, by numbers of respondents, undifferentiated "Canadian," indicating perhaps mixed ethnic background (though other explanations of this identification present themselves) and confirming the perception that Reginans in large number, like other western Canadians, do not particularly distinguish among themselves as to ethnicity. The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population English Canada|Canadians of English descentAn English Canadian is a Canadian whose principal language is English or who is of English ancestry; it is used

Religious affiliation in Regina according to the 2006 census

There are considerable difficulties with the ethnic configuration of Regina suggested by the 2001 Census. German is, apparently, by far the largest ethnic constituency but that contemplates separating persons of British Isles antecedents into English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Manx, Cornish and other British Isles ancestries. The identification of undifferentiated "Canadian" is unexplained and "American" is anomalously offered as an ethnicity. The designation "East Indian" excludes Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and other South Asians. In absolute numbers of Aboriginal population, Regina ranks seventh among Census Metropolitan Areas in Canada with an "Aboriginal-identity population of 15,685 (8. 3% of the total city population), of which 9,200 were First Nations, 5,990 Métis, and 495 other Aboriginal. "^[45]

The 2006 Census indicates that religious affiliation is of reduced significance among Reginans, with fully 19. 0% of Reginans identifying as having no religion; Protestant at 41. 5%; Roman Catholic, 32. 3%; Eastern Orthodox, 1. 8%; other Christian (including Oriental Orthodox), 2. 9% and other religion (including Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish), 2. 5%. ^[46] A more useful demonstration of religious realities would be to set out the decline in numbers of Christian parishes in recent years, especially among the historically predominant Protestant denominations of the United Church of Canada, Anglican Church of Canada and Presbyterian Church in Canada, as amply demonstrated by historic Saturday church advertisements in the Leader-Post, although with the construction of Resurrection Parish in East Regina, the Catholic Church continues to expand its base in the city. The United Church of Canada was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Christian denominations two thirds of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (then the largest Canadian Protestant The Anglican Church of Canada is the sole Canadian representative of the Anglican Communion. The Presbyterian Church in Canada is the name of a Protestant Christian church, of Presbyterian and reformed Theology

Crime

Maclean's magazine named Regina Canada's most dangerous city in 2008 edition. ^[47][48] The article used 2006 crime data from the Canadian Centre of Justice Statistics for the 100 largest communities in the nation. Regina's overall crime rate was 143. 3% above the national rate. It led the nation in aggravated assaults, and was third in break and enters and robbery. Regina trails only Saskatoon in overall violent crime. The article states that Regina would be in the top 10% of all US cities for break and enters, and would be among the ten worst US metropolitan areas for robbery. A previous edition of Maclean's had singled out the North Central neighbourhood as Canada's worst neighbourhood. [1]

Economy

Main article: Regina industry and resources

General Motors Factory, Regina, 1928

Oil and natural gas, potash,^[49] kaolin, sodium sulphite and bentonite contribute a great part of Regina and area's economy. Regina is a city in Saskatchewan, Canada. Its industry was originally largely confined to activities associated with its agricultural hinterland An oil is a substance that is in a viscous Liquid state ( "oily") at ambient temperatures or slightly warmer and is Natural gas is a Gaseous Fossil fuel consisting primarily of Methane but including significant quantities of Ethane, Propane, Potash (or carbonate of potash) is an impure form of Potassium carbonate ( K 2 CO3) Kaolinite is a Clay mineral with the chemical composition Al 2 Si 2 O 5( OH)4 Sodium sulfite (sodium sulphite is a soluble compound of Sodium. Bentonite is an absorbent Aluminium phyllosilicate generally impure Clay consisting mostly of Montmorillonite. The completion of the train link between eastern Canada and the then-District of Assiniboia in 1885, the development of the high-yielding and early-maturing Marquis strain of wheat and the opening of new grain markets in the United Kingdom established the first impetus for economic development and substantial population settlement. The Canadian Pacific Railway ( Assiniboia refers to a number of different locations and administrative jurisdictions in Canada. ^[50] The farm and agricultural component is still a significant part of the economy — the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, "the world's largest grain-handling co-operative" has its headquarters in Regina^[51] — but it is no longer the major driver; provincially it has slipped to eighth overall, well behind the natural resources sectors. The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool was a grain handling agri-food processing and marketing company based in Regina, Saskatchewan. Modern transport has obviated the development of a significant manufacturing sector: the General Motors assembly plant north on Winnipeg Street, built in 1927 — when Saskatchewan's agricultural economy was booming and briefly made it the third province of Canada after Ontario and Quebec in both population (at just under one million people, roughly the same population as today^[52]) and GDP — ceased production during the depression of the 1930s. General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Canada was hit hard by the Great Depression. Between 1929 and 1933 the gross national product dropped 40% (compared to 37% in the US It was resumed by the federal crown during World War II and housed Regina Wartime Industries Ltd. , where 1,000 people were engaged in armaments manufacture. ^[53] It was not returned to private automotive manufacture after the war and became derelict. IPSCO Inc. , a leading world producer steel of plate and pipe and as of July 2007 a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Swedish steel company SSAB, began in Regina in 1956 as Prairie Pipe Manufacturing Company Ltd; while the bulk of its assets and customers are now in USA and it has its operational headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, it retains its registered office and substantial manufacturing facilities in Regina. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. ^[54] Crown Life, a significant Canadian and international insurance company, transferred its national head office from Toronto to Regina in 1996 but was acquired by Canada Life in 1998 and the corporate head office returned to Toronto, though with assurances that the company would retain a strong presence in Regina. ^[55] The provincial government continues to be a major driver in the civic economy, though its relative importance is declining. ^[56] The Regina Research Park immediately adjacent to the University campus hosts several science and technology companies which conduct research activities in conjunction with University departments. Innovation Place is an initiative of the Province of Saskatchewan to construct and operate two Research parks one located near the University of Saskatchewan in

Culture

Main article: Culture in Regina

Royal Saskatchewan Museum

Regina has a rich cultural life in music, theatre and dance, amply supported by the substantial fine arts constituency at the University of Regina, which has faculties of music, theatre and plastic arts. Regina Saskatchewan has a rich cultural life in music theatre and dance amply supported by the substantial fine arts constituency at the University of Regina, which has a At various times this has attracted notable artistic talent: the Regina Five were artists at Regina College (the University's predecessor) who gained national fame in the 1950s; Donald M. Kendrick, Bob Boyer and Joe Fafard, now with significant international reputations, have been other stars. The Regina Five was a name given to five abstract painters Kenneth Lochhead, Arthur McKay, Douglas Morton, Ted Godwin, and Ronald Robert (Bob Boyer (July 20 1948- August 30 2004 was a Canadian visual artist and university professor of aboriginal heritage Joseph Fafard (born September 2, 1942) is a Canadian sculptor. The Regina Conservatory of Music operates in the former girls' residence wing of the Regina College building. Annual festivals in and near Regina through the year include the Cathedral Village Arts Festival; the Craven Country Jamboree^[57]; the Regina Folk Festival^[58]; the Regina Dragon Boat Festival^[59]; and Mosaic, mounted by the Regina Multicultural Council,^[60] which earned Heritage Canada’s designation of 2004 "Cultural Capital of Canada" (in the over 125,000 population category). ^[61] As in other cities and towns across Canada the annual Kiwanis Music Festival affords rising musical talents the opportunity to achieve nation-wide recognition. Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers headquartered in Indianapolis Indiana.

The Conexus Arts Centre

Regina lacked a large concert and live theatre venue for many years after the loss to fire of the Regina Theatre in 1938 and the demolition of the 1906 City Hall in 1964 at a time when preservation of heritage architecture was not yet a fashionable issue, though until the demolition of downtown cinemas which doubled as live theatres the lack was not urgent, and Darke Hall on the Regina College campus of the university provided a small concert and stage venue. (See Regina's historic buildings and precincts. Many historically significant buildings in Regina Saskatchewan were lost during the period 1945 through approximately 1970 when the urge to "modernize" overtook developers' ) The default was remedied in 1970 with the construction of the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts (now the Conexus Arts Centre) as a Canadian Centennial project, a theatre and concert hall complex overlooking Wascana Lake which is one of the most acoustically perfect concert venues in North America^[62]; it is home to the Regina Symphony Orchestra (Canada's oldest continuously performing orchestra^[63]), Opera Saskatchewan and New Dance Horizons, a contemporary dance company. Conexus Arts Centre, known from 1970 till 2006 (and still largely known as the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts, is a theatre complex located within Wascana Centre ^[64] The Royal Saskatchewan Museum (the present 1955 structure a Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee project^[65]) dates from 1906. The Royal Saskatchewan Museum was established in Regina as the Provincial Museum in 1906 to "secure and preserve natural history specimens and objects of historical ^[66] The old Post Office at Scarth Street and 11th Avenue, temporarily used as a city hall after the demolition of the 1906 City Hall, is now home to the Globe Theatre, founded in 1966 as "Saskatchewan's first professional theatre since 1927. The Prince Edward Building is the current official (albeit seldom noted name of the old post office building in Regina Saskatchewan, located at the corner of Scarth Street The Globe Theatre in Regina Saskatchewan, was founded in 1966 by Ken and Sue Kramer "^[67] Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Cathedral^[68] and Knox-Metropolitan United Church have particularly impressive Casavant Frères pipe organs, maintain substantial musical establishments and are frequently the venues for choral concerts and organ recitals. Holy Rosary Cathedral at 13th Avenue and Garnet Street in Regina Saskatchewan, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina Casavant Frères is a prominent Canadian company that builds fine Pipe organs based in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec.

The Regina Public Library is a city-wide library system with nine branches playing key roles in their respective neighbourhoods. Regina Public Library is a city-wide library system in Canada that serves the citizens of Regina Saskatchewan by providing Its facilities include the RPL Film theatre which plays less mainstream cinema, the Dunlop Art Gallery, special literacy services and a prairie history collection. ^[69] The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery in Wascana Centre and the Dunlop Art Gallery have permanent collections and sponsor travelling exhibitions. ^[70]

In the summer of 2006 downtown Regina was host to the "Regina Infringement Festival" which was geared towards more experimental, public performance. The Infringement Festival was a satellite festival spawned off of the Montreal Infringement Festival.

Parks and outdoor attractions

Regina has a substantial proportion of its overall area dedicated as parks and greenspaces, with biking paths, cross-country ski-ing venues and other recreational facilities throughout the city; Wascana Lake, the venue for summer boating activities, is regularly cleared of snow in winter for skating and there are toboggan runs both in Wascana Centre and downstream on the banks of Wascana Creek. Victoria Park is in the central business district and numerous greenspaces throughout the residential subdivisions and newer subdivisions in the north and west of the city contain large ornamental ponds to add interest to parks such as Rochdale, Lakewood, Lakeridge, Spruce Meadows and Windsor Parks; older school playing fields throughout the city have also been converted into landscaped parks. Regina 's founders set aside a chunk of land right in the centre of town and named it Victoria Square. ^[71]

The City operates five municipal golf courses, including two in King's Park northeast of the city. Kings Park Recreation facility is also home to ball diamonds, picnic grounds, and stock car racing. Within half an hour's drive are the summer cottage and camping country and winter ski resorts in the Qu'Appelle Valley with Last Mountain and Buffalo Pound Lakes and the four Fishing Lakes of Pasqua, Echo, Mission and Katepwa; slightly farther east are Round and Crooked Lakes, also in the Qu'Appelle Valley, and to the southeast the Kenosee Lake cottage country. The Qu'Appelle River (kəˈpɛl is a Canadian River that flows 430 km east from Lake Diefenbaker in southwestern Saskatchewan to join the Fishing Lakes are a chain of four lakes in the Qu'Appelle Valley cottage country some 40 miles (64 km to the northeast of Regina Saskatchewan. Kenosee Lake is a Lake in south east Saskatchewan, Canada. The lake lies in Moose Mountain Provincial Park.

Main article: Wascana Centre

Wascana Lake with downtown Regina

Wascana Centre is a 9. Wascana Centre (formally established in 1962 is a 93 square kilometre (2300 acre park built around Wascana Lake in Regina Saskatchewan. 3 square kilometre (2,300 acre) park built around Wascana Lake and designed in 1961 by Minoru Yamasaki — the Seattle-born architect best known as the designer of the original World Trade Center in New York — in tandem with his starkly modernist design for the new Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U was an American Architect best known for his design of the twin towers of the World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2 The World Trade Center in New York City, United States (sometimes informally the WTC or Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. The University of Saskatchewan ( U of S) is a Coeducational public Research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan ^[72] Wascana Lake was created as a "stock watering hole" — for the CPR's rolling stock, that is — in 1883 when a dam and bridge were constructed 1½ blocks to the west of the present Albert Street Bridge. The Canadian Pacific Railway ( Rolling Stock was a Newspaper of ideas and a chronicle of the 1980s published in Boulder, Colorado The Albert Memorial Bridge, located on Albert Street in Regina Saskatchewan, was built in 1930 A new dam and bridge were built in 1908, and Wascana Lake was used as a domestic water source, to cool the city’s power plant and, in due course, for the new provincial legislative building. ^[73]

By the 1920s with the Boggy Creek source of domestic water Wascana Lake had ceased to have a utilitarian purpose and had become primarily a recreational facility, with bathing and boating its principal uses. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada It was drained in the 1930s as part of a government relief project; 2,100 men widened and dredged the lake bed and created two islands using only hand tools and horse-drawn wagons. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. ^[74] During the fall and winter of 2003–2004, Wascana Lake was again drained and dredged to deepen it while adding a new island, a promenade area beside Albert Street Bridge, water fountains, and a waterfall to help aerate the lake. The Wascana Lake Urban Revitalization Project —known locally as the Big Dig —was an $18 million project to deepen Wascana Lake in Regina, Saskatchewan ^[75] Downstream from Wascana Lake in the northwest quadrant of the city Wascana Creek has a second weir with a smaller reservoir in A. E. Wilson Park.

Bedroom communities

South shore of Mission Lake to the east of Fort Qu'Appelle, a summer resort of Reginans from the 1880s onwards, though here a photo of one of the infamous Indian Residential Schools. The Canadian residential school system consisted of a number of schools for Aboriginal children operated during the 19th and 20th century by churches of various denominations

From its first founding, particularly once motorcars were common, Reginans have repaired to the nearby Qu'Appelle Valley on weekends, for summer and winter holidays and indeed as a place to live permanently and commute from. The Qu'Appelle River (kəˈpɛl is a Canadian River that flows 430 km east from Lake Diefenbaker in southwestern Saskatchewan to join the Since the 1940s, many of the towns near Regina have steadily lost population^[76] as western Canada's agrarian economy re-organised itself from small family farm landholdings of a quarter-section (160 acres, the original standard land grant to homesteaders^[77]) to the multi-section (a "section" being one square mile) landholdings that are increasingly necessary for economic viability. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be ^[78] Some of these towns have enjoyed somewhat of a renaissance as a result of the excellent roads that for many decades seemed likely to doom them; they—and to some extent the nearby city of Moose Jaw — are now undergoing a mild resurgence as commuter satellites for Regina. Moose Jaw is a city in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada on the Moose Jaw River 71 km (45 miles west of Regina Qu'Appelle, at one time intended to be the metropole for the original District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories (as they then were), enjoyed a temporary reprieve from its inexorable decline during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s when Regina cottagers passed through en route to the Qu'Appelle Valley; Highway 10, which bypassed Qu'Appelle, running directly from Balgonie to Fort Qu'Appelle off Highway Number 1, quickly ended this brief holiday^[79]; Fort Qu'Appelle and its neighbouring resort villages on the Fishing Lakes remain a summer vacation venue of choice^[80]; Indian Head is far enough from Regina to have an autonomous identity but close enough that its charm and vitality attract commuters — it "has a range of professional services and tradespeople, financial institutions, and a large number of retail establishments. Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan, is a small village (legally for historical reasons a Town) with considerable historic significance Fort Qu'Appelle is a town located in the Qu'Appelle Valley in southern Saskatchewan, Canada Fishing Lakes are a chain of four lakes in the Qu'Appelle Valley cottage country some 40 miles (64 km to the northeast of Regina Saskatchewan. Indian Head is a Town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada, 69 km east of Regina. "^[81] White City^[82] and Emerald Park^[83] are quasi-suburbs of Regina, as have become Balgonie,^[84] Pense, Grand Coulee, Pilot Butte^[85] and Lumsden in the Qu'Appelle Valley, some ten miles (16 km) to the north of Regina. White City is a Suburban town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Emerald Park Saskatchewan is situated in the Rural municipality of Edenwold. Balgonie ( 2006 population 1384 UA population 1384 is a Town in southeastern Saskatchewan Pilot Butte is a town outside of Regina Saskatchewan. It is located 14 km east of Regina and has a population of approximately 2000 Lumsden is a Town in the Qu'Appelle Valley in south central Saskatchewan, Canada, 31 km northwest of Regina. ^[86], Regina Beach — situated on Last Mountain Lake (known locally as Long Lake) and a 30-minute drive from Regina — has been a summer favourite of Reginans from its first establishment and since the 1970s has also become a commuter satellite^[87]; Rouleau (also known as the town of Dog River in the television sitcom Corner Gas) is 45 km (28 miles) southwest of Regina and in the summer months "bustles with film crews. Regina Beach is a town in south central Saskatchewan, located on Highway 54, close to where Highway 11 (which connects Saskatoon to Regina Last Mountain Lake, also known as Long Lake, is located in south central Saskatchewan, Canada, about 40 km northwest of the city of Regina adjacent Rouleau (ˈroʊloʊ is a Town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Corner Gas is a Canadian Television sitcom created by Brent Butt and airing on CTV and in the United States on WGN "^[88]

Sports

Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field

Sports teams in Regina include the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League, the Regina Thunder of the Canadian Junior Football League, the Prairie Fire of the Rugby Canada Super League, the Regina Red Sox of the Western Major Baseball League, the University of Regina's Regina Cougars, Regina Rams of the CIS, and the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL. The Regina Pats are a Junior ice hockey team that plays in the Western Hockey League. This article refers to the junior Western Hockey League For other leagues with the same name see Western Hockey League (disambiguation. Notable Thunder Alumni Jeff Yorga - Toronto Argonauts, CFL Chris Getzlaf - (2005 - Saskatchewan Roughriders The Canadian Junior Football League is a national amateur Canadian football league consisting of 18 teams playing in six provinces across Canada The Prairie Fire' are a Canadian Rugby Union team based in Regina Saskatchewan. Overview Founded in 1998 the Super League is considered to be Canada's premier rugby competition The Western Major Baseball League or WMBL is a summer collegiate Baseball league The Regina Cougars are the athletic teams that represent the University of Regina in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS is the national Governing body of University sport in Canada, comprised of the majority of degree granting universities The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan, founded in 1910. The Canadian Football League (CFL ( Ligue canadienne de football (LCF in

The Saskatchewan Roughriders, formed in 1910 as the Regina Rugby Club and renamed the Regina Roughriders in 1924 and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1950^[89] are a community-owned professional sports team. The Riders have a strong and loyal fan support base. Out-of-town season ticket holders often travel 300 to 400 kilometres (200–250 mi) or more to attend home games^[90].

Regina's curling teams have distinguished the city for many decades. Richardson Crescent commemorates the Richardson curling team of the 1950s; in recent years Olympic Gold medal winner Sandra Schmirler and her rink occasioned vast civic pride. Ernest M Richardson CM (born August 4, 1931 in Stoughton, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian and world Curling Sandra Marie Schmirler ( June 11, 1963 – March 3, 2000) SOM was a Canadian curler, who captured three

North-east of the city lies Kings Park Speedway, a ⅓-mile paved oval used for stock car racing since the late 1960s. Kings Park Speedway is an auto racing facility located north-east of Regina Saskatchewan, Canada, operated by the Regina Auto Racing Club Stock car racing is a form of Automobile racing found mainly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Great Britain Regina hosted the Western Canada Summer Games in 1975 and again in 1987, as well as being the host city for the 2005 Canada Summer Games. An ametuer multi-sporting event that is held every four years The Canada Games is a high-level Multi-sport event with a National Artists Program held every two years in Canada, alternating between the Canada Winter Games and

Visitor attractions

Main article: Visitor attractions in Regina

The Kramer Imax Theatre located at the Saskatchewan Science Centre

Regina is a travel destination for residents of southeastern Saskatchewan and the immediately adjacent regions of the neighbouring US States of North Dakota and Montana, and an intermediate stopping point for travellers on the Trans-Canada Highway. Regina Saskatchewan, Canada is a travel destination for residents of southern Saskatchewan and the immediately neighbouring regions of the U Attractions for visitors in Regina include the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (a museum of natural history); the Saskatchewan Science Centre, housed in the 1914 Powerhouse on east Wascana Lake;^[91] the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery^[92] and numerous smaller galleries and museums; the Saskatchewan Legislative Building; Holy Rosary Cathedral; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) national training centre and the museum; Government House; Casino Regina, the Globe Theatre; events held at Taylor Field sports stadium and the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts; Ipsco Place (formerly Regina Exhibition Park), the venue for the annual Buffalo Days Exhibition summer agricultural fair every August, and the Canadian Western Agribition,^[93] a winter agricultural show and marketplace. The Royal Saskatchewan Museum was established in Regina as the Provincial Museum in 1906 to "secure and preserve natural history specimens and objects of historical The Saskatchewan Legislative Building is located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and serves as the seat of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan Holy Rosary Cathedral at 13th Avenue and Garnet Street in Regina Saskatchewan, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina RCMP Academy Depot Division (commonly known as "Depot" ˈdɛpoʊ not /ˈdiːpoʊ/ has been providing Police training to Royal Canadian Mounted Police The RCMP Heritage Centre ( French: Le Centre du patrimoine de la GRC) was officially opened May 23 2007 in Regina Saskatchewan, Government House, Regina Saskatchewan, was constructed as a residence for the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, whose Casino Regina, the former Union Station, is a grand tyndall and Ashlar stone structure located on Saskatchewan Drive in Regina, Saskatchewan The Globe Theatre in Regina Saskatchewan, was founded in 1966 by Ken and Sue Kramer Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field is a sports Stadium located in Regina Saskatchewan which is used primarily to play Canadian football. Conexus Arts Centre, known from 1970 till 2006 (and still largely known as the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts, is a theatre complex located within Wascana Centre The former large-scale Children's Day Parade and Travellers' Day Parade during Fair Week. which were substantially supported by the Masons and Shriners, appear largely to have been abandoned. The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, commonly known as Shriners and abbreviated A

Local news media

Main article: Media of Regina, Saskatchewan

Education

University of Regina

Main article: University of Regina

New Wascana Campus of the University of Regina seen from the Saskatchewan Science Centre across Wascana Lake

In the years prior to the establishment of the University of Saskatchewan, there was continued debate as to which Saskatchewan city would be awarded the provincial university: ultimately Saskatoon won out over Regina and in immediate reaction the Methodist Church of Canada established Regina College in 1911. The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. The University of Saskatchewan ( U of S) is a Coeducational public Research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan The Methodist Church of Canada was a united church formed in 1884 and comprising most former Methodist denominations in Canada including some that had been active along Canada's eastern Regina College was initially a denominational high school and junior college affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan — the later-established Campion and Luther Colleges, operated by the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order and Lutheran Church respectively, operated on the same basis. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC (Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne au Canada is Canada 's largest Lutheran denomination with 182077 baptized members The Church of England concurrently established St Chad's College, an Anglican theological training facility, and the Qu'Appelle Diocesan School on the Anglican diocesan property immediately to the east of Regina College on College Avenue. The Anglican Church of Canada is the sole Canadian representative of the Anglican Communion. All were ultimately tertiary institutions.

Ultimately, the financially hard-pressed United Church of Canada (the successor to the Methodist Church), which in any case had ideological difficulties with the concept of fee-paying private schooling given its longstanding espousal of universal free education from the time of its founding father Egerton Ryerson, could no longer maintain Regina College during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Regina College was disaffiliated from the Church and surrendered to the University of Saskatchewan; it became the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan in 1961. The United Church of Canada was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Christian denominations two thirds of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (then the largest Canadian Protestant Adolphus Egerton Ryerson ( 24 March 1803 &ndash 19 February 1882) was a minister, Educator, Politician, The University of Saskatchewan ( U of S) is a Coeducational public Research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan After a protracted contretemps over the siting of several faculties in Saskatoon which had been promised to the Regina campus, Regina Campus sought and obtained a separate charter as the University of Regina in 1974. The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada.

Campion College and Luther College now have federated college status in the University of Regina, as does the First Nations University of Canada;^[94] St Chad's ultimately consolidated with Emmanuel College on the then-Saskatoon campus of the University of Saskatchewan. For other schools with the same name see Luther College (disambiguation. A federated school, federated college, federated university, or affiliated school is an educational institution which is independent in some respects but The First Nations University of Canada (formerly Saskatchewan Indian Federated College) is a university in Saskatchewan, Canada with campuses in The Regina Research Park is located immediately adjacent to the main campus and many of its initiatives in information technology, petroleum and environmental sciences are conducted in conjunction with university departments. Innovation Place is an initiative of the Province of Saskatchewan to construct and operate two Research parks one located near the University of Saskatchewan in A member in the research park is Canada's Petroleum Technology Research facility, a world leader in oil recovery and geological storage of CO₂.

Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology

Wascana campus of SIAST.

Main article: Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology

The Wascana campus^[95] of this province-wide polytechnical institute is adjacent to the University of Regina. Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST is a diploma granting College that has four campuses across Saskatchewan. It occupies the former Plains Health Centre, previously a third hospital in Regina which in the course of rationalizing health services in Saskatchewan was in due course closed. It offers diplomas in some 175 trade and semi-professional fields ranging from accountancy and auto-mechanical technician through corrections worker, dental hygiene, driving instructor, nursing and school secretarial qualifications. A dental hygienist is a licensed Dental auxiliary who specializes in preventive dental care typically but not limited to focusing on techniques in Oral hygiene. ^[96]

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy, Depot Division

Main article: RCMP Academy, Depot Division

The RCMP Chapel

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy, "Depot" Division, is on the western perimeter of the city. RCMP Academy Depot Division (commonly known as "Depot" ˈdɛpoʊ not /ˈdiːpoʊ/ has been providing Police training to Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP Academy Depot Division (commonly known as "Depot" ˈdɛpoʊ not /ˈdiːpoʊ/ has been providing Police training to Royal Canadian Mounted Police As capital of the North-West Territories, Regina was the headquarters of the Royal North-West Mounted Police (the RCMP's predecessor) before "the Force" became a national body with its headquarters in Ottawa in 1920. Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality. The city takes great pride in this national institution which is a major visitor attraction and a continuing link with Regina's past as the headquarters of the Force. The "Depot" Division chapel (the oldest building still standing in the city) is a major visitor attraction in Regina. The first phase of a RCMP Heritage Centre opened in May 2007. The RCMP Heritage Centre ( French: Le Centre du patrimoine de la GRC) was officially opened May 23 2007 in Regina Saskatchewan,

Public, separate and private schools

Main article: Public, separate and private schools in Regina, Saskatchewan

The Regina Public School Board operates some 50 elementary schools and 10 high schools with approximately 21,000 students enrolled throughout the city. This is a list of schools (at the elementary and secondary level that are located in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. The publicly-funded Roman Catholic Separate School Board operates 25 elementary schools and four high schools, and has a current enrollment of approximately 10,000 students. A separate school is a publicly funded School which includes religious Education in its curriculum as opposed to a Private school or Public See also Primary education An elementary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of Compulsory education known as elementary High school is the name used in some parts of the world (in particular Scotland, North America and Australia) to describe an institution Public and separate schools are amply equipped with state-of-the-art science labs, gymnasia and drama and arts facilities: already by the 1960s Regina high schools had television studios, swimming pools, ice rinks and state-of-the-art drama facilities.

A small number of parents choose to opt out of the public and separate school systems for home-schooling under the guidance of Regina Public School Board. Private schools in Regina include Luther College, operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the Regina Huda school for Islamic education; Harvest City Church and Christian Academy (occupying the former Sister Marion McGuigan High School site); the Western Christian College and High School operated by the Churches of Christ, using premises vacated by the former Canadian Bible College; and the Regina Christian School, in the former Campion College premises.

Transportation

Streetcar on Albert Street Bridge circa 1935; Provincial Legislative Building across lake. The Albert Memorial Bridge, located on Albert Street in Regina Saskatchewan, was built in 1930 The Saskatchewan Legislative Building is located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and serves as the seat of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

The city's public transit agency, Regina Transit, operates a fleet of 110 buses, on 16 routes, 7 days a week with access to the city centre from most areas of the city. Regina Transit is the public transportation agency operated by the city of Regina Saskatchewan. A massive fire at the streetcar barns, on January 23, 1949, destroyed much of the rolling stock of streetcars and trolley buses ^[97] and helped to propel Regina's diesel bus revolution in 1951. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Because of the 1949 fire, original Regina streetcar rolling stock was rare, though through later years a few disused streetcars remained in evidence — a streetcar with takeaway food, for example, on the site of the Regina Theatre at 12th Avenue and Hamilton Street, until the Hudson's Bay Company acquired the site and built its 60s-through-90s department store there, and for many years another in the Scarth Street Mall.

Passengers boarding a train at Union Station in Regina, circa 1915 when trains were the principal means of transportation to and from Regina

The CPR no longer operates regular passenger services, though in the past railway passenger trains constituted the principal mode of inter-urban transit between Western Canadian cities. Its former station in downtown Regina — once the urban hub — has become a casino (see below). Casino Regina, the former Union Station, is a grand tyndall and Ashlar stone structure located on Saskatchewan Drive in Regina, Saskatchewan Nowadays Regina can be reached by several highways including the Trans-Canada Highway from the west and east sides and four provincial highways from other directions. The Trans-Canada Highway is a federal-provincial Highway system that joins all ten provinces of Canada. The city is served by Ring Road, a high speed connection between Regina's east and northwest that loops around the city's east side (the west side of the loop is formed by Lewvan Drive) with plans calling for another perimeter highway to encircle the city farther out. Ring Road is a 4 lane Controlled access highway in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. ^[98]

Regina International Airport is situated on the west side of the city and is the oldest established commercial airport in Canada. Regina International Airport is an Airport located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, about seven kilometres WSW of the City centre ^[99] The current, continuingly expanded, 1960 terminal replaces the original 1940 Art Deco terminal; it has recently undergone further major upgrades and expansions to allow it to handle increases in traffic for the next several years. Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939 affecting the decorative arts such as Architecture, Interior design, and Industrial

Infrastructure

Domestic water, originally obtained from Wascana Lake and later the Boggy Creek reservoir north of the city and supplemented by wells, is supplied from Buffalo Pound Lake in the Qu'Appelle Valley, a natural reservoir on the Qu'Appelle River, since 1967 with water diverted into it from Diefenbaker Lake behind the Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River. The Qu'Appelle River (kəˈpɛl is a Canadian River that flows 430 km east from Lake Diefenbaker in southwestern Saskatchewan to join the The Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan is the largest earth fill Dam in Canada. The South Saskatchewan River (French rivière Saskatchewan Sud) is a major river in Canada that flows through the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan ^[100] Electricity is provided by SaskPower, a provincial Crown corporation which maintains a province-wide grid with power generated from coal-fired base load, natural gas-fired, hydroelectric and wind power facilities. SaskPower is the principal supplier of electricity in Saskatchewan, Canada. In the Commonwealth realms a Crown corporation is a State-controlled company or enterprise Medical services are provided through two city hospitals, Regina General and Pasqua (formerly Grey Nuns) — a third city hospital, Plains Health Centre, has been converted to the Wascana campus of SIAST — and by private medical practitioners. Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST is a diploma granting College that has four campuses across Saskatchewan.

Sister city

• Jinan, (Shandong, China)^[101]

See also

• Assiniboine First Nation
• Bethune weather radar
• List of Canadian cities
• HMCS Regina (FFH 334)
• HMCS Regina (K234)
• List of famous Reginans
• List of mayors of Regina, Saskatchewan,

Notes and references

Further reading

External links

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