The Regina Conservatory of Music operates in the former girls' residence wing of the Regina College building. Asked by Wiki User. Bus service in Saskatchewan was serviced by the Saskatchewan Government owned "STC" (Saskatchewan Transportation Company) until 2017 when it was closed and sold off in a controversial decision by the current sitting Saskatchewan government headed by "The Saskatchewan Party". 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, together with longstanding substantial enrollment by trainees from across Canada, obtaining entertainment and recreation citywide. The national RCMP music and "Depot" Division chapel (the oldest building still standing in the city) are major visitor attractions in Regina. [95] The Innovation Place Research Park immediately adjacent to the University campus hosts several science and technology companies which conduct research activities in conjunction with University departments. [13] In recent years, Saskatchewan's agricultural and mineral resources have come into new demand, and it has entered a new period of strong economic growth.[14]. The racial make up of Regina is White (78.6%), Aboriginal (9.9%) (First Nations (5.8%) and Metis (3.9%), Southeast Asian (3.5%), South Asian (2.6%), East Asian (2.2%), Black (1.6%), Latin American (0.7%) and Arab & West Asian (0.6%). The city is the second-largest in the province, after Saskatoon and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. History tells us that this area was one of the most important places where Indigenous people would hunt the roaming herds of bison. At the convention, the CCF adopted a programme known as the Regina Manifesto, which set out the new party's goals. Regina’s Heritage Tours, City of Regina, 1994. For that reason, these stats may not be as accurate as they should be, however several neighborhoods were used on both websites. Qu'Appelle has recently seen more interest taken in it as a place to live. The service run 7 days a week with access to the city centre from most areas of the city. By this time, Saskatchewan was considered the third province of Canada[25] in both population and economic indicators. Prairie Dog was established in 1993 and is a free alternative newspaper and blog produced by a Saskatchewan worker co-operative. Regina formerly had an extensive streetcar (tramway) network but now has no streetcars, trains or subways. Luther College (affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada) is a historical, independent high school; the Regina Huda School offers Islamic education; Harvest City Christian Academy is a private school (occupying the former Sister McGuigan High School site); and the Regina Christian School (in the former Campion College premises) operates as an Associate school of the Regina Public School Division. Indigenous people called the area Oskana Kasastcki which roughly translates to bone piles. "The Work of Minoru Yamasaki,". Richardson Crescent commemorates the Richardson curling team of the 1950s. A massive fire at the streetcar barns, on 23 January 1949, destroyed much of the rolling stock of streetcars and trolley buses[114] and helped to propel Regina's diesel bus revolution in 1951, although until well into the 1970s the streetcar rails remained in the centre of many major streets, ready to be returned to use should city transit policy change. reports 111 more COVID-19 cases, Sask. Bill Waiser, "On-to-Ottawa Trek and the Regina Riot,". But 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. 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. When the settlement grew in the 1880s, it was largely agricultural, and still is to a large degree. Average annual precipitation is 389.7 mm (15.34 in) and is heaviest from June through August, with June being the wettest month with an average of 75 mm (2.95 in) of precipitation. The site was previously called Wascana ("Buffalo Bones" in Cree), but was renamed to Regina (Latin for "Queen") in 1882 in honour of Queen Victoria. There is an abundance of parks and greenspaces: all of its trees — some 300,000[35] — shrubs and other plants were hand-planted. In 1912, the Regina Cyclone destroyed much of the town;[11] 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 dry land grain farming. The city is situated on a broad, flat, treeless plain. Donald M. Kendrick, Bob Boyer and Joe Fafard, now with significant international reputations, have been other artists from or once in Regina. Retrieved 19 November 2009. There are four private and public television channels broadcasting from Regina: CKCK-TV (CTV), CBKT (CBC), CFRE-TV (Global), and CBKFT (SRC). As far as education goes, for those who are 25 to 64 years old, the highest levels of education are as follows; 61.6% of people have a post-secondary schooling degree, 27.6% have a high school diploma (or equivalent to) and 10.8% have elementary. Recently older 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 Production Studios) and the old Post Office on the Scarth Street Mall. Private aircraft is facilitated at the Regina Flying Club and Western Air hangars near the Regina International Airport. Darrell Romuld Its Regina presence a merger of the former Wascana Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences and Regina Plains Community College: Note: The police reports and the community profiles don't necessarily have the same neighborhoods, so, for some I had to try to determine (by looking at a map), which belonged together. 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. 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. REGINA -- The master plan has been subsequently revised every five to seven years since, most recently in 2016. Medical services are provided through three city hospitals, Regina General, Pasqua (formerly Grey Nuns), and Wascana Rehabilitation Centre and by private medical practitioners, who, like hospitals, remit their bills to the public universal medical insurer, the Saskatchewan Medicare system. The median age is 37.1 years old (48.5 for women and 38.5 for men), which is lower than the median age of Canada at 40.6 years old. Mark Partridge, "The Ebb and Flow of Rural Growth: Spread, Backwash, or Stagnation." How did Regina Saskatchewan get its name? As of the 2016 census, Regina had a city population of 215,106, and a Metropolitan Area population of 236,481. Its facilities include the RPL Film theatre which plays non-mainstream cinema, the Dunlop Art Gallery, special literacy services and a prairie history collection. Lieutenant-Governor 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. In recent years Olympic Gold medal winner Sandra Schmirler and her rink occasioned vast civic pride; the Sandra Schmirler Leisure Centre in east Regina commemorates her. Wascana Centre is a 9.3 km2 (3.6 sq mi) 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 city's public transit agency, Regina Transit, operates a fleet of 110 buses, on 17 routes, and 4 express routes. Pentecostals recorded the second largest decline, their numbers falling 15% to almost 369,500. It began in Regina in 1956 as Prairie Pipe Manufacturing Company Ltd and went through an incarnation as IPSCO Steel. Thomas Chase, "Casavant, Opus 1409, 1930/1993. "A Big Thanks to Indian Head," CBC program website. [40], 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. [70] 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. Its former station in downtown Regina has become a casino.