Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina
City
City of Regina
From top, left to right: Downtown Regina skyline, Victoria Park, Saskatchewan Legislative Building, Prince Edward Building, Dr. John Archer Library the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.
From top, left to right: Downtown Regina skyline, Victoria Park, Saskatchewan Legislative Building, Prince Edward Building, Dr. John Archer Library the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.
Flag of Regina
Flag
Coat of arms of Regina
Coat of arms
Official logo of Regina
Logo
Nicknames: 
"The Queen City"[1]
Motto(s): 
Floreat Regina
("May Regina Flourish")[2]
Regina is located in Saskatchewan
Regina
Regina
Location within Saskatchewan
Regina is located in Canada
Regina
Regina
Location within Canada
Coordinates: 50°27′17″N 104°36′24″W / 50.45472°N 104.60667°W / 50.45472; -104.60667[3]
CountryCanada
ProvinceSaskatchewan
Established1882
Named forLatin for "queen", named for Queen Victoria
Government
 • City MayorSandra Masters[4]
 • Governing bodyRegina City Council
List of City Councillors
  • Cheryl Stadnichuk, Ward 1
  • Bob Hawkins, Ward 2
  • Andrew Stevens, Ward 3
  • Lori Bresciani, Ward 4
  • John Findura, Ward 5
  • Daniel LeBlanc, Ward 6
  • Terina Nelson, Ward 7
  • Shanon Zachidniak, Ward 8
  • Jason Mancinelli, Ward 9
  • Landon Mohl, Ward 10
 • MPs
List of MPs
 • MLAs
List of MLAs
Area
 • City178.81 km2 (69.04 sq mi)
 • Metro
4,323.66 km2 (1,669.37 sq mi)
Elevation
577 m (1,893 ft)
Population
 (2021)
 • City226,404 (ranked 24th)
 • Density1,266.2/km2 (3,279.32/sq mi)
 • Metro
249,217 (ranked 18th)
 • Metro density57.6/km2 (149.3/sq mi)
DemonymReginan
Gross Metropolitan Product
 • Regina CMACA$17.5 billion (2020)[6]
Time zoneUTC−06:00 (CST)
Forward sortation area
S4K – S4Z
Area code(s)306, 639, and 474
NTS Map72I7 Regina
GNBC CodeHAIMP[7]
Websiteregina.ca Edit this at Wikidata

Regina (/rɪˈdʒaɪnə/ ri-JEYE-nə) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. As of the 2021 census, Regina had a city population of 226,404, and a metropolitan area population of 249,217.[8][9] It is governed by Regina City Council. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Sherwood No. 159.

Regina was previously the seat of government of the North-West Territories, of which the current provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta originally formed part, and of the District of Assiniboia. The site was previously called Wascana (from Cree: ᐅᐢᑲᓇ, romanized: Oskana "Buffalo Bones"),[10] but was renamed to Regina (Latin for "Queen") in 1882 in honour of Queen Victoria. The name was proposed by Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Louise, who was the wife of the Governor General of Canada, the Marquess of Lorne.[11]

Unlike other planned cities in the Canadian West, on its treeless flat plain Regina has few 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 with a dam a block and a half west of the later elaborate 260 m (850 ft) long Albert Street Bridge[12] across the new lake. Regina's importance was further secured when the new province of Saskatchewan designated the city its capital in 1906.[13] Wascana Centre, created around the focal point of Wascana Lake, remains one of Regina's attractions and contains the Provincial Legislative Building, both campuses of the University of Regina, First Nations University of Canada, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, the Regina Conservatory (in the original Regina College buildings), the Saskatchewan Science Centre,[14] the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts.

Residential neighbourhoods include precincts beyond the historic city centre are historically or socially noteworthy neighbourhoods – namely Lakeview and The Crescents, both of which lie directly south of downtown. Immediately to the north of the central business district is the old warehouse district, increasingly the focus of shopping, nightclubs and residential development;[15] as in other western cities of North America, the periphery contains shopping malls and big box stores.

In 1912, the Regina Cyclone destroyed much of the town;[16] 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.[17] The CCF (now the NDP, a major left-wing political party in Canada), formulated its foundational Regina Manifesto of 1933 in Regina.[18] In 2007 Saskatchewan's agricultural and mineral resources came into new demand, and Saskatchewan was described as entering a new period of strong economic growth.[19]

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  2. ^ "City of Regina". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Regina". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
  4. ^ Office of the Mayor
  5. ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (13 July 2022). "Focus on Geography Series, 2021 Census - Regina (Census subdivision)". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Statistics Canada. Table 36-10-0468-01 Gross domestic product (GDP) at basic prices, by census metropolitan area (CMA) (x 1,000,000)". Statistics Canada.
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  14. ^ "Saskatchewan Science Centre website". Sasksciencecentre.com. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  15. ^ Regina's Old Warehouse District. Archived 17 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  16. ^ Dagmar Skamlová, "Regina Cyclone," Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Archived 26 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  17. ^ Steven J. Shirtliffe, "Agronomy," Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Archived 7 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  18. ^ "The Regina Manifesto (1933) Archived 10 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme, Adopted by the founding convention in Regina, Saskatchewan, July 1933." Socialist History Project. South Branch Publishing. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  19. ^ "Saskatchewan Poised for Strong Economic Growth Says RBC Economics," Royal Bank of Canada Financial Group, March 30, 2007.. Retrieved 11 December 2007. Archived 18 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine