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Downtown cinemas included the Regina, the Grand and, both on Broad Street, the 1000-seat Metropolitan and the Broadway Theatres. The Broadway was Regina's first "all-talkie" movie theatre, built by theatre owner and manager Harry Bercovich. Styled in the "Spanish villa" theme inside and outside, it opened on January 1, 1930.
This article is a list of historic places in Regina, Saskatchewan entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal. List of historic places [ edit ]
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Regina, Saskatchewan" ... Regina's historic buildings and precincts; A. Albert Memorial Bridge (Regina, Saskatchewan)
(6) the Warehouse District, formerly — obviously, as its name suggests — the reception zone for freight arriving from eastern Canada and the USA for sale by Regina wholesalers, and latterly, with the eclipse of rail shipping, being redeveloped as desirable residential accommodation, upscale restaurants and fashionable shopping precincts; and
Regina 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 (the latter some 48 km (30 mi) to the east, one on rolling plains and the other in the Qu'Appelle Valley between two lakes).
The Regina Court House during Louis Riel's trial. He was brought to Regina after his troops were defeated by government forces in the North-West Rebellion.. Regina was founded in 1882, when the Canadian Pacific Railway, then being built across western Canada, reached the site: by the time of the North-West Rebellion in 1885 the CPR had reached only Qu'Appelle (then called Troy), some 30 miles ...
Regina's historic buildings and precincts; S. Statement of Principles (NDP) This page was last edited on 31 May 2024, at 20:19 (UTC). Text is available under ...
Of historical significance, the table that was used during the meeting of the Fathers of Confederation in Quebec City in 1864 resides in the building's library, albeit with six feet of it removed. Lieutenant-Governor Edgar Dewdney of the North-West Territories brought the table to Regina, which was the capital of the territory at the time. It ...