The basics about the City of Regina

• Regina is the provincial capital of Saskatchewan, Canada. The city, located at the middle of the flat prairie, is 577 metres (1875 feet) above sea level. The city is located at 50 degrees (north) and 30 minutes of latitude and 104 degrees (west) and 30 minutes of longitude.
• The city uses Central Standard Time (CST), the same time zone as Chicago and Houston, but Regina does not move to Daylight Savings Time in the summer.
• The prairie area was originally pretty featureless. Beautification efforts over time have included the construction of a lake and 350,000 trees have been planted, making the city the greenest on the prairies.
• The Wascana Creek, which runs through Regina, was a Cree hunting area. The Cree called the area Oscana or "pile of bones" probably because they cleaned Buffalo carcasses near the creek. When the Canadian Pacific Railroad extended westwards in 1882, they put a terminal at Pile-O-Bones.
• A few years later when the seat of government of the Northwest Territories was moved here, Princess Louise, the wife of Canada's Governor General, named the city Regina (Latin for Queen), in honor of her mother -- Queen Victoria.
• In 1905, when Saskatchewan became a province, Regina became the capitol city.
• From 1892 to 1920, Regina was the headquarters of the Northwest Mounted Police, and it is now western headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which maintains its crime detection laboratory there.
• The University of Regina is located in the city, which is also home to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, a Canadian Football League team.
• The population of Regina is approximately 202,000 persons.
• Saskatchewan has more than 990,000 residents in a 652,000 square kilometres (251,000 sq miles) area.
• The major industries in Regina reflect the area's agricultural and potash resources, as well as its position as the administrative capital of the province. The city is the distribution and service center for one of the world's largest wheat-growing areas. Industries include agricultural processing, meatpacking, printing, oil refining, and the manufacture of communications equipment and building materials.