31 Facts About Regina Saskatchewan

Unlike other planned cities in the Canadian West, on its treeless flat plain Regina Saskatchewan has few topographical features other than the small spring run-off, Wascana Creek.

In 1912, the Regina Saskatchewan Cyclone destroyed much of the town; in the 1930s, the Regina Saskatchewan 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 dry land grain farming.

Regina Saskatchewan was established as the territorial seat of government in 1882 when Edgar Dewdney, the lieutenant-governor of the North-West Territories, insisted on the site over the better developed Battleford, Troy and Fort Qu'Appelle .

Subsequently, the rebellion's leader, Louis Riel, was tried and hanged in Regina Saskatchewan – giving the infant community increased and, at the time, not unwelcome national attention in connection with a figure who was generally at the time considered an unalloyed villain in anglophone Canada.

Regina Saskatchewan was incorporated as a city on 19 June 1903, with the MLA who introduced the charter bill, James Hawkes, declaring, "Regina Saskatchewan has the brightest future before it of any place in the North West Territories".

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From 1920 to 1926 Regina Saskatchewan used Single transferable vote, a form of proportional representation, to elect its councillors.

Regina Saskatchewan grew rapidly until the beginning of the Great Depression, in 1929, though only to a small fraction of the originally anticipated population explosion as population centre of the new province.

Thereafter, Saskatchewan never recovered its early promise and Regina's growth slowed and at times reversed.

In 1933, Regina Saskatchewan hosted the first national convention Co-operative Commonwealth Federation .

In 1935, Regina Saskatchewan gained notoriety for the Regina Saskatchewan Riot, an incident of the On-to-Ottawa Trek.

Regina Saskatchewan has warm summers and cold, dry winters, prone to extremes at all times of the year.

Since the 1940s, many of the towns near Regina Saskatchewan have steadily lost population as western Canada's agrarian economy reorganised itself from small family farm landholdings of a quarter-section to the multi-section landholdings that are increasingly necessary for economic viability.

Qu'Appelle, at one time intended to be the metropole for the original District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories, saw during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s Regina Saskatchewan cottagers pass 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.

Regina Saskatchewan has a substantial cultural life in music, theatre and dance, supported by the fine arts constituency at the University of Regina Saskatchewan, which has faculties of music, theatre and arts.

At various times this has attracted notable artistic talent: the Regina Saskatchewan Five were artists at Regina Saskatchewan College who gained national fame in the 1950s.

Regina Saskatchewan lacked a large concert and live theatre venue for many years after the loss to fire of the Regina Saskatchewan 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.

Regina Saskatchewan Public Library is a citywide library system with nine branches.

Regina Saskatchewan has a substantial proportion of its overall area dedicated as parks and greenspaces, with biking paths, cross-country skiing 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.

Former large-scale Children's Day Parade and Travellers' Day Parade during Fair Week in the summer, which were substantially supported by the Masons and Shriners, has become the fair parade as such service clubs have lost vitality; the Regina Saskatchewan Exhibition's travelling midway divides its time among other western Canadian and US cities.

Regina Saskatchewan's curling teams have distinguished the city for many decades.

Regina Saskatchewan 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.

Campion College and Luther College now have federated college status in the University of Regina, as does the First Nations University of Canada; The United Church's Regina College has entirely consolidated with the University of Saskatchewan and identified with St Andrew's College there: despite the considerable historical involvement by the Methodist, Presbyterian and Anglican churches in antecedent institutions of the University of Regina.

Also, the relative severity of crimes in Regina Saskatchewan is quite high and the city continues to top the national Crime Severity Index.

Regina Saskatchewan has one of the highest rates of intravenous drug use in Canada.

Regina Saskatchewan formerly had an extensive streetcar network but now has no streetcars, trains or subways.

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The city's public transit agency, Regina Saskatchewan Transit, operates a fleet of 110 buses, on 17 routes, and 4 express routes.

Currently, Regina Saskatchewan can be reached by several highways including the Trans-Canada Highway from the west and east sides and four provincial highways from other directions.

Five decades-old bus depot on Hamilton Street immediately south of the Hotel Regina Saskatchewan was replaced in 2008 by one at the corner of Regina Saskatchewan Drive and Broad Street.

Private aircraft is facilitated at the Regina Saskatchewan Flying Club and Western Air hangars near the Regina Saskatchewan International Airport.

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

City of Regina Saskatchewan maintains trade development programs, cultural, and educational partnerships in a twinning agreement with Bucharest, Romania and Jinan, Shandong, China, and a friendship agreement with Fujioka, Gunma, Japan.