Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina, (IPA pronunciation: [rɪ'dʒaɪnə]), is the major commercial centre of southern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is the provincial capital and was previously the territorial headquarters of the North-West Territories, of which today's provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta originally formed part. Regina was also the district headquarters of the District of Assiniboia. Regina was named in 1882 after Queen Victoria, i.e. Victoria Regina, by her daughter Princess Louise, wife of the then-Governor General the Marquess of Lorne.It is located at 50°26′10″N, 104°37′05″W. Regina's elevation is 577 metres (1,893 ft) above mean sea level.

Regina is a cultural and commercial metropole for both southern Saskatchewan and adjacent areas in the neighbouring American states of North Dakota and Montana. It attracts numerous visitors for the vitality of its commerce, theatre, concerts and restaurants and to its summer fair named Buffalo Days. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the see city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox Dioceses of Regina and the Anglican Diocese of Qu'Appelle.

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Regina

According to the Canada 2006 Census:

* Population:	179,246 (+0.6% from 2001)
* Land area:	118.87 km²
* Population density:	1,507.9 people/km²
* National population rank (Out of 5,008):	Ranked 24
* Median age:^†	35.8 (males: 34.4, females: 36.9)
* Total private dwellings:	78,692
* Dwellings occupied by permanent residents:	74,803
* Mean household income:^↑	$46,847

References:

2006 Community Profile

Footnotes: ^↑ The data has not yet been released and is based on 2001 Census. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 199,000 as of 2005 with an annual growth rate of 0.4%, when in fact it was actually much lower then the estimates making the City of Regina's goal of 250,000 by 2010 next to impossible.^[1]

History

Main article: History of Regina

See also: History of Northwest Territories capital cities

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, Qu'Appelle and Fort Qu'Appelle as the territorial headquarters; these were widely considered more amiable locations for what was anticipated would be a major city, situated as they were in amply watered and treed rolling parklands whereas "Pile-of-Bones," as the site was then called, was in the midst of arid and featureless grassland.

First house in Regina, 1882.

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. This probably constituted an improper private interest of Dewdney's in promoting the site of Pile-of-Bones as the territorial headquarters and was a national scandal at the time, but until 1896 when responsible government was accomplished, the territorial lieutenant-governor and council governed by fiat and there was little legitimate means of challenging such decisions.

Regina attained national prominence in 1885 during the North-West Rebellion despite the fact that the Canadian Pacific Railway had still only reached the formerly designated territorial headquarters of Troy (Qu'Appelle) some thirty miles to the east, which became the marshalling point to the northwest for troops arriving from eastern Canada by train. Subsequently, the rebellion's leader, Louis Riel, was tried and hanged in Regina — giving the infant community increased and, at the time, not unwelcome national attention in connection with a figure of significance in Canadian history.

Scarth Street, circa 1915.

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. 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.

Regina's early history was of rapid growth which continued until the Great Depression began in 1929, at which point Saskatchewan had been the third province of Canada in both population and economic indicators. Thereafter, Saskatchewan never recovered its early promise and Regina's growth slowed and at times reversed. 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.

Events of national importance which occurred in Regina include the trial of Louis Riel (followed by Riel's execution) in July 1885; the Regina Manifesto, 1933; the Regina Riot, 1 July 1935 and the Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike in 1961 when medical doctors withheld their services in response to the introduction of Medicare.

Geography and climate

Downtown Regina in winter

Regina has a semi-arid continental climate (Koppen climate classification BSk) with warm, somewhat moist summers and cold, dry winters. 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 lowest temperature ever recorded was -50.0 °C (-58 °F) on January 1, 1885 while the highest recorded temperature was 43.3 °C (109.9 °F) on July 5, 1937.

East Regina Neighbourhood

The city is situated on a broad, flat and originally treeless, though fertile plain. There is an abundance of parks and greenspaces: all of its trees, shrubs and other plants were hand-planted and Regina's considerable beauty is entirely man-made. Reginans make a virtue of the infelicitous climate and in winter outdoor rinks abound and cross-country skiing are major recreational activities, especially in Wascana Centre; Wascana Lake, the venue for summer boating activities, is regularly cleared of snow in winter for skating.

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. 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.

Industry and resources

Main article: Regina industry and resources

Oil and natural gas, potash, kaolin, sodium sulphite and bentonite contribute a great part of Regina and area's economy. The farm and agricultural component is still a significant part of the economy but it is no longer the major driver of the economy; provincially it has slipped to eighth overall, well behind the natural resources sectors. The Innovation Place Research Park near the University of Regina hosts several science and technology companies. However, the development of hi-tech industries have been slow, a much needed industry in a modern urban economy.

Urban planning issues

Main article: Regina neighbourhoods

New Regina City Hall (1976)

Regina has grown from a collection of wooden shanties and tent shacks clustered around the not-yet-built railway line into a modern city. Original city development centred around the railroad tracks in what is today Regina's downtown. As in other Canadian cities, the disappearance of the Simpson's and Eaton's retail department stores in the downtown, as well as the proliferation of shopping malls and "big box stores" on northern, southern and eastern periphery, together with a corresponding drift of entertainment venues (including all cinemas) to the city outskirts, depleted the city centre. Recently, changes have been underway to return vitality to the city centre, with condominium housing and business developments strongly encouraged. The former location of the Hudson's Bay Company department store (previously the site of the Regina Theatre) has been converted into offices; Globe Theatre, Casino Regina and its show lounge in the old CPR train station, the Cornwall Centre and downtown restaurants again draw people downtown although the mooted development of another large retail commercial area in the southwest near the airport would inevitably further compromise efforts to revitalize the central business district. The north-central sector of the city has in recent years become the focus of attention for its considerable squalor and high rates of drug use and prostitution: its problems are a vexatious issue in a community long known for its intensively social welfare ethos.

Historic buildings and precincts

Main article: Regina's historic buildings and precincts

11th Avenue and Scarth Street, 1911. 1908 City Hall and Medical Arts Building in background; Old Post Office to the right; Imperial Bank of Canada across 11th Avenue.

Many buildings of historical significance and value were lost during the period from 1945 through approximately 1970; a side-effect of the city's mid-century modernization. Regina's loss of the Romanesque Revival city hall on 11th Avenue is a particularly unfortunate example of the phenomenon. (It was replaced by a shopping mall, which was renovated extensively later to create office space for the Government of Canada.)

Since the 1970s, as has also occurred in many other Western Canada cities, a more historically conservationist attitude has taken hold in Regina, and many of the old buildings have been put to new uses instead of being demolished: the transformation of the old Normal School on the Regina College campus of the University of Regina into the Canada-Saskatchewan Soundstage and the Old Post Office on the Scarth Street Mall are two examples.

Natural recreational amenities

Regina has a large percentage of its overall area devoted to parks and greenspaces, with biking paths and other recreational facilities throughout the city. 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 is the summer cottage and camping country 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.

Bedroom communities

From its first founding, residents of Regina have repaired to the nearby Qu'Appelle Valley on weekends and for summer holidays. Since the 1940s, many of the towns near Regina have steadily lost population as western Canada's agrarian economy reorganised itself from small family farm landholdings of a quarter-section (160 acres, the standard land grant to homesteaders) to the multi-section (a "section" being one square mile) landholdings that are nowadays necessary for economic viability. 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.

Qu'Appelle, at one time intended to be the Territorial metropole, enjoyed a temporary reprieve from its inexorable decline during the 1950s and '60s when Regina cottagers passed through en route to the Qu'Appelle Valley; Highway 10, which bypassed Qu'Appelle, quickly ended this brief holiday; Fort Qu'Appelle remains the summer vacation resort of choice; Indian Head is far enough from Regina to have an autonomous identity but close enough that its charm and vitality attract commuters; White City and Emerald Park are quasi-suburbs of Regina, as have become Balgonie, Grand Coulee, Pilot Butte and Lumsden in the Qu'Appelle Valley, some ten miles (16 km) to the north of Regina. 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; Rouleau (also known as the town of Dog River in the television sitcom "Corner Gas") is 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Regina.

Wascana Centre

Main article: Wascana Centre

Wascana Lake with downtown Regina

Wascana Centre is a 9.3 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.^[2]

It brings together lands and buildings owned by the City of Regina, University of Regina, Province of Saskatchewan and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, including:

the Royal Saskatchewan Museum;
the Powerhouse of Discovery Science Centre and Kramer Imax theatre;
the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery;
the Conexus Arts Centre concert hall and theatre complex (formerly known as the Saskatchewan Centre for the Arts);
the Canada-Saskatchewan Soundstage;
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
the Regina College campus of the University of Regina including the Regina Conservatory of Music (in the old girls' residence wing of the Regina College building), the Darke Hall theatre and concert venue and
the Saskatchewan Legislative Building.

Spruce Island

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. A new dam and bridge were built in 1908, and Wascana Lake was used as a domestic water source and to cool the city’s power plant and, in due course, the new provincial legislative building.

Regina's improbable location made its water supply a perennial issue, but 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. 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.

During the fall and winter of 2003–2004, Wascana Lake was again drained and dredged to deepen it by about an average of five metres (16 ft) while adding a new island, a promenade area beside Albert Street Bridge, water fountains, and a waterfall to help aerate the lake.

Transportation

Streetcar on Albert Street Bridge circa 1935; Provincial Legislative Building across lake.

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. A massive fire at the streetcar barns, on January 23, 1949, destroyed much of the rolling stock of streetcars and trolley buses and helped to propel Regina's diesel bus revolution in 1951. 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.

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). 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 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.^[3]

Regina International Airport, the oldest established commercial airport in Canada, has recently undergone a major upgrade and expansion to allow it to handle the projected increase in traffic for the next several years. Situated on the west side of the city, it has eight gates that handle flights to major centres in Canada as well as daily flights to and from Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota via Northwest Airlines. WestJet and Air Canada Jazz airlines are also regularly scheduled in and out of Regina International Airport.

Education

University of Regina

Main article: University of Regina

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 Regina. Regina College was a high school and junior college affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan — Campion and Luther Colleges, run by the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches, operated on the same basis. Ultimately the financially hard-pressed United Church of Canada, which in any case had ideological difficulties with the concept of fee-paying private schooling, could no longer maintain Regina College during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Regina College was disaffiliated and surrendered to the University of Saskatchewan; it became the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan in 1961. 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 had some 12,500 students as of the 2002-2003 academic year and was rated 6th in the 2005 Maclean's magazine Canadian National Comprehensive Universities Rankings.

The original Regina College buildings on College Avenue continue in use; the old Girls' Residence is now the Regina Conservatory of Music and the old Normal School is now the Canada-Saskatchewan Soundstage.

Campion College and Luther College were church-run, private high schools offering junior college courses accredited by the University of Saskatchewan, on the same basis as the old Regina College. Both colleges now have federated college status in the University of Regina, as does the First Nations University of Canada.

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. 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 of this province-wide technical institute is adjacent to the University of Regina. It occupies the former Plains Health Centre, previously a third hospital in Regina which in the course of rationallizing health services in Saskatchewan was in due course closed.

As with the federated colleges of the University of Regina, however, SIAST participates in and contributes to university life to the advantage of both its own and University of Regina students.

SIAST 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.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy, Depot Division

Main article: RCMP Academy, Depot Division

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy, "Depot" Division, is on the western perimeter of the city. As territory 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. 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 high on the list of must-see visitor attractions in Regina. An RCMP Heritage Centre is planned for opening in May 2007.

Public, separate and private schools

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

The Regina Public School Board, the largest school division located in the province, operates over 50 elementary schools and 10 high schools with approximately 21,000 students enrolled throughout the city. The Roman Catholic (but publicly-funded) Separate School Board operates 25 elementary schools and four high schools, and has a current enrollment rate of approximately 10,000 students. Luther College, operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, is the one remaining private high school of several which formerly operated in Regina, in addition to being a federated college of the University of Regina; it is located on the site of the first Government House. The Western Christian College, operated by the Churches of Christ, had previously moved from Radville, Saskatchewan to Weyburn, Saskatchewan and Dauphin, Manitoba and has a total enrollment of some 100 students.

Cultural life, sports and visitor attractions

Main article: Culture in Regina

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 a large fine arts department including faculties of music and theatre. At various times this has attracted notable artistic talent: Donald M. Kendrick and Joe Fafard, now with significant international reputations, have been particular stars. The Regina Conservatory of Music operates in the former girls' residence wing of the Regina College building. Regina’s multicultural community earned Heritage Canada’s designation of 2004 "Cultural Capital of Canada" (in the over 125,000 population category).

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 Old City Hall in 1962 at a time when preservation of heritage architecture was not yet a fashionable issue,

The Conexus Arts Centre

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.) 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. According to its promotional literature, it is one of the most acoustically perfect concert venues in North America. The Royal Saskatchewan Museum (the present 1955 structure a Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee project) dates from 1906.

Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Cathedral and Knox-Metropolitan United Church have particularly impressive pipe organs, maintain substantial musical establishments and are frequently the venues for choral concerts and organ recitals.

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 Saskatchewan Roughriders 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.

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.

Visitor attractions

Main article: Visitor attractions in Regina

The Kramer Imax Theatre located at the Saskatchewan Science Centre

Attractions for visitors in Regina include the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (a museum of natural history); the Saskatchewan Science Centre; the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery and numerous smaller galleries and museums; the Saskatchewan Legislative Building; Holy Rosary Cathedral; the RCMP national training centre and the museum; Government House; Casino Regina, the Globe Theatre; events held at Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field; Ipsco Place (formerly Regina Exhibition Park), the venue for the annual Buffalo Days Exhibition every August; and the Connexus Arts Centre (see the City of Regina website below).

Local media

Newspapers

The Regina Leader, 1882

The Regina Leader was founded by Nicholas Flood Davin in 1883 and was the original Regina newspaper of record. Published weekly by the mercurial Davin, it came to national prominence during the trial of Louis Riel when Davin published several scoops and the Leader's articles were picked up by the national press.^[4]

It merged with another local paper, the Regina Evening Post, and continued to publish daily editions of both before consolidating them under the title The Leader-Post. Other newspapers absorbed by the The Leader-Post include the Regina Daily Star and The Province. It is now owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp., based in Winnipeg, MB.

The Regina Sun is published by the Leader-Post and distributed free of charge.

Prairie Dog is a free newspaper produced by a Saskatchewan worker co-operative. It launched in February, 1993 as a monthly and has published every two weeks since October, 1999. Prairie Dog is similar to alternative weeklies in other Canadian centres, such as Now (Toronto, ON), The Georgia Straight (Vancouver, BC), The Coast (Halifax, NS) and FFWD (Calgary, AB).

L'eau vive is a weekly newspaper established in 1971. The only French language newspaper in Saskatchewan, its offices are located in Regina; it serves the entire province's French speaking community.

Radio stations

540 AM – CBK, CBC Radio One
620 AM – CKRM, country music
980 AM – CJME, news/talk
88.9 FM – CKSB-1, Espace musique
91.3 FM – CJTR, community radio
92.1 FM – CHMX, adult contemporary (Lite 92 FM)
94.5 FM – CKCK, Jack FM
96.9 FM – CBK-FM, CBC Radio Two
97.7 FM – CBKF, La Première Chaîne
98.9 FM – CIZL, Hot AC (Z99)
102.5 FM – CBKR, CBC Radio One
104.9 FM – CFWF, active rock (104.9 The Wolf)

Television stations

(On-air broadcast numbers)

Channel 2: CKCK, CTV
Channel 9: CBKT, CBC
Channel 11: CFRE, Global
Channel 13: CBKFT, SRC

Cable stations

Saskatchewan Communications Network
Access Communications Cable 7

Notables

Main article: List of famous Reginans

Notable persons who were born, grew up in or established their fame in Regina, Saskatchewan:

Dick Assman, gas station attendant facetiously given fame by David Letterman
Sarah Binks, fictional character created by Paul Hiebert, in whose gently satirical biography Regina figures as the rustic's metropolis
Gail Bowen, author and writer of the Joanne Kilbourne murder mystery series
Beverley Breuer, actor whose credits include Scary Movie 4
Progressive metal/Melodic Death Metal band Into Eternity
Rob Bryanton, Composer and Author
Jason Clermont, slotback for the CFL's B.C. Lions
Murray Crewe, principal bass trombonist, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Shirley Douglas, actor, daughter of T.C. Douglas; mother of Kiefer Sutherland
T.C. Douglas, CCF premier 1944–1961 and later leader of the federal New Democratic Party
Joe Fafard, sculptor and artist
Ryan Getzlaf, NHL player
Dirk Graham, NHL player
Scott Hartnell, NHL player
Jamie Heward, NHL player
Dick Irvin, Jr., Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster
Colin James, a 2 time Juno award winning blues-rock musician
Connie Kaldor, singer
Donald M. Kendrick, Calgary native, choral conductor and teacher at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, in the 1970s
Chris Kunitz, NHL player
Sarah Lind, actor
Zarqa Nawaz, filmmaker and screenwriter, creator of CBC sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie
Leslie Nielsen, actor whose credits include Airplane!, Naked Gun and Scary Movie 4.
Erik Nielsen, federal politician, deputy prime minister
Michael Peers, Archbishop of Qu'Appelle; Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
RHD (Bob) Phillips, City Editor of Regina Leader-Post, Editor and Publisher of The Western Producer
Jason Plumb, popular musician formerly with the Waltons
Erika Ritter, playwright and broadcaster
Jon Ryan, punter with the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the NFL's Green Bay Packers
Sandra Schmirler, Olympic gold medalist (died March 2, 2000)
Jack Semple, noted blues guitarist
Kenny Shields, Juno award winning musician with locally based band Streetheart in the 80's
Mike Sillinger, NHL player
John Vernon (Agopsowicz), actor
Pamela Wallin, broadcaster

Sister city

Jinan, (Shandong, China)

External links

Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 50.45° -104.61°
- WikiSatellite view at WikiMapia
- Street map from Mapquest
- Aerial photograph from Terraserver
- Topo, Nautical, Aeronautical maps from Maptech
Climate data for Regina
Bethune weather RADAR station
Canadian Encyclopedia article on Regina
A very complete gallery of professional quality images of Regina and area from photographer Siamandas
Corinne Boivin-England website with photo album of Regina sights
In Regina website Website devoted to all things in and around Regina
Legislature Dome Panorama Interactive 360 degree view of Regina from the top of the Legislature Building's Dome
City of Regina web site
City of Regina Property Tax Search
City of Regina Transit
First Nations University of Canada
History of the NWT legislative assembly
Royal South Saskatchewan
A history of Regina in photographs
Holy Rosary Cathedral (Regina) website
Knox-Metropolitan United Church website
L'Eau vive
Mike Badham Park
Mosaic
Polonia Polish Folk Dance Ensemble
Poltava Ensemble of Song, Music, and Dance
Regina Fire Department
Regina International Airport
Regina Public Library site on historic Regina buildings
Regina Research Park
Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology website
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists, Saskatchewan and the Visual Arts (Greenberg discussion of Regina Five)
Tavria Ukrainian Folk Dance Ensemble
Tourism Regina
Trinity Lutheran Church website
University of Regina website
Wascana Centre
Regina on WikiTravel

Attractions

Casino Regina - located in the former Canadian Pacific Railway station
MacKenzie Art Gallery
RCMP Museum
Regina Downtown
Regina Plains Museum
Regina's Online Business Directory
Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame
Saskatchewan Science Centre - includes an IMAX theatre
Wascana Park
Willow Island

Notes

^ Population of census metropolitan areas (2001 Census boundaries), Statistics Canada. 2006. Released 4 April 2006. Last modified: 2006-06-12
^ Fletcher, Tom. "The Work of Minoru Yamasaki," New York Architecture Images and Notes. Internet: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON001G.htm.
^ Feature: East Regina TCH. Saskatchewan Highways. Retrieved on September 21, 2006.
^ People at the Leader Building, Regina: The Early Years. Accessed 21 September 2006.

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