Why is regina called pile of bones

From well-known history to some old stories you may not have heard about. The land where Regina is currently located was temporarily called "Pile O' Bones" for the piles of buffalo bones kept in the area before shipping them East for fertilizer.

Some of the piles of bones were over 6 feet high! The name was chosen to honour Queen Victoria, the reigning monarch at the time. Regina became a city on June 19, , with a population of 3, Two years later, on September 4, , Saskatchewan became a province and on May 23, , Regina became its capital. A fire in gutted the interior of the Holy Rosary Cathedral 13th Ave. The Holy Rosary Cathedral measures x 90 feet and features two towers that flank the impressive front entrance facade.

In , the 13th avenue streetcar line was developed in the Cathedral neighbourhood. The first house was erected in May It is believed to have been located around what is now Cornwall Street.

Connaught Library branch was built in and designed by Joseph Warburton in the Classical Romanesque Revival style, who also designed the Albert Library in the same style. The residential area known today as "Transitional" between Victoria avenue and College avenue was once the city's most prestigious neighbourhood prior to the development of the Crescents and Lakeview areas, and for years accommodated some of Regina's most prominent citizens.

World War I broke out a year later and due to a labor and materials shortage, the project was halted. Grand Trunk would later go bankrupt and the building was left incomplete on the site where the Royal Saskatchewan Museum now sits.

The Canadian Pacific Railway would later savage the "pile of scraps" left behind from the Chateau Qu'Appelle and create the Hotel Saskatchewan on the land they purchased from Francis Darke. The Hotel Saskatchewan housed the official residence and office of the Saskatchewan lieutenant-governor from to The Saskatchewan Museum opened in as the government of Saskatchewan's commemorative project for the province's 50th anniversary.

The museum was dedicated by Governor General Vincent Massey as a monument to the pioneers of the province and a symbol of their appreciation of the natural environment within which they settled. The museum received its royal designation in Darke Hall - This building was constructed by businessman and philanthropist Francis Darke, as a gift to Regina College.

It served as the city's principal performing arts centre for 40 years, until the completion of the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts, renamed the Conexus Arts Centre in Trafalgar Fountain sits just east of the Leg, and was a gift from London, England. It stood in Trafalgar Square from to The Fountain has a twin that sits in Ottawa. The Crescents area has always maintained a prestigious character, based not only on its architectural merits, but also on its elm-shaded streets, the gentle slope of its topography, and its proximity to downtown, Wascana Centre, and the parklands along Wascana Creek.

The interior of the Legislative Building is finished with materials from all over the world, including 34 varieties of marble. Regina was struck hard by the Great Depression, and many people lost their jobs. In an effort to employ more people, Wascana Lake was dammed, widened and deepened all by hand so it would take as long as possible and employ the highest number of people as possible. Regina-born-and-raised Tatiana Maslany won an Emmy for best lead actress in a drama at the awards.

Globe is also notable for being the home of the first professional theatre company in the province and is the only theatre in the round in Western Canada. A man stands in front of a small wooden shack. The door to the shack is open. A wagon and horse stand to the right of the man and the house. The horse is in harness.

A photo of The Leader Company building in about A two-storey brick building with a one-storey attached building with large smokestack is in the centre frame of the image. To the left is an unidentified one-storey wooden building. To the right is an unidentified wooden building.

Two people stand near the front entrance of the Leader Company, to the left of the image. A wooden plank sidewalk and a dirt road lead up to the Leader Company Building.

A photograph of St. A brick cruciform church stands behind a tall tower in the foreground. The church features two large, round stained glass rose windows on both left and right wings.

The tower is topped by a black spire and has multiple Gothic style arched windows throughout. The church still stands at McIntyre Street. A two-storey, white, rectangular, wooden building fronted by multiple windows. A wooden plank sidewalk and dirt road are in front of the building. Several men stand directly in front of the building, while a man driving a team of two horses pulling a wagon is in the foreground.

A photograph of the White School in about A two-storey, wooden building topped with a bell tower cupola to the left. In , anger toward the government among Metis people of the North West Territories turned into what became known as the Riel Resistance, or the Northwest Resistance.

Louis Riel, who had been instrumental in founding the province of Manitoba, returned to Canada from the United States to form a Metis government at Batoche. A photograph of Louis Riel. It is a close-up image of a man with dark, curly hair cut slightly below ear length. He has a large, dark moustache and is wearing a white, collarless shirt under a dark vest and suit jacket. A composite image consisting of two pictures. The top left image shows the militia of the North-West. Two rows of men with rifles pose on the flat, featureless prairie.

To the far left of the rows is a man posed facing the camera. To the far right of the rows are three men posed facing the camera. One man is in the background. In front of him is a man with a snare drum hanging from his neck. To the far right is a man with a bass drum hanging from his neck.

A wagon leads a row of militia fighters toward the right of the image. At the far left of the image is a wagon pulled by horses about to step onto a white wooden bridge. Riel was captured, tried for treason and swiftly — and controversially- executed in Regina on November 16, A composite image of three pictures.

The first image on the left of the screen shows Judge Hugh Richardson, the presiding judge at the Riel trial, in Judge Richardson has white hair and a white handlebar moustache. He sits on a padded wooden chair facing forward. He wears a dark suit, vest and tie. His vest has a pocket watch fob and chain pinned to the front and trailing into the jacket interior. The second image at the top right is the courthouse where Riel was tried.

The image was taken in about A white, two-storey building sits on a featureless flat plain. A horse and several men stand to the right of the building.

Directly in front of the building are three men. In the right foreground of the image is a long row of saddled horses. The third image on the bottom right shows the North West Mounted Police guardroom where Louis Riel was held awaiting trial.

The building is a long wooden building with a porch and several cupolas and chimneys along its roof line. A fence made of wrought iron and brick stands to the left of the building.

A tree is in the left foreground. Regina had a complex and strained relationship with the local Indigenous community at the time of the Riel Rebellion and after. This became the blueprint for John A. A photograph of Nicholas Flood Davin in about His arm rests on the chair back with his thumb and index finger touching the side of his head.

He is bald on top with a small tuft of dark, curly hair above his ear. He has a small moustache and wears a bow tie, white shirt, vest and woolen coat and trousers.

A photograph of graduates of the Regina Indian Industrial School in about Four rows of Indigenous students pose in formal suits for the male students and heavy black dresses with puff-sleeved jackets for the female students.

The image is discoloured because of over-exposure during photo developing and the top left row of students is blurrier than the right side of the image. The top row has eight male students. The second row from the top shows nine male students. The third row from the top shows six male students and two female students. The fourth row shows 10 seated female students. This was a Presbyterian institution, part of the residential schools program that devastated First Nations communities around Canada for decades.

It operated from to , and was demolished in The cemetery for the Regina Indian Industrial School was abandoned and largely forgotten for decades. Photograph of the Regina Indian Industrial School in about A long brick building with many windows top and bottom, and two covered entrances. The roofline has a cupola with a bell and a chimney.

In front of the building are many teams of horses pulling wagons and multiple people. On the top floor, several students look down upon the scene from windows. The City of Regina has just begun grappling with how to put the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee into practice. The City of Regina Archives supplied material to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission during its fact-finding, including this image.

A photograph of a drum with red sides and a yellow and blue painted cruciform image on top. The male drummers sit in a circle on chairs around the drum. No faces are visible. Eight drumsticks strike the drum at the same time. The drumsticks are blurred because the photograph was taken while the drumming was in progress.

In March , City Council unanimously committed to acting on the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Both dancers are blurred as they have been captured while dancing was in progress. The costumes feature feathers and ribbons with a colour palette of reds, yellows, blue, orange and white. Both dancers wear eagle feathers as part of their headdress. Behind the dancers, visitors and members of the media watch while the drum circle accompanies the dancers.

Some of the observers are also dressed in dancing costumes and awaiting their turn to perform. A photograph of Boggy Creek wellspring in about A wooden platform with metal machinery stands to the back and rises above a metal pipe.

The pipe is spurting water. A small boy stands to the left of the spurting pipe out of the range of water. In , Regina became a city, partly because Regina had a pressing need for things like running water,. Several wooden buildings stand on a flat, featureless plain surrounded by water. A wooden plank sidewalk runs above the water in the foreground. A photograph of four men in their best clothing pose with shovels and a wheelbarrow.

The man to the far right stands with a wheelbarrow. The second man stands in a stooped posture, posing with a pickaxe. A third man stands holding a broom and smoking a cigar. The fourth man stands posing, holding a shovel. In the background is a car and several houses. A photograph of a large trench reinforced with metal rebar is surrounded by a metal track apparatus that is being used to transport large, wooden sewer pipes into place within the trench. In the background stands the steam-powered boring machine used to dig the trench.

Two men in suits stand in the background in front of the machine and at the edge of the trench. To the right of the image, three men work near sections of sewer pipe. One section of pipe has been suspended from a metal chain and is being pulled into place in the trench. Wooden houses are in the far background of the image. Four large turbines stand in a massive multi-storey building. The building has high ceilings with large, arched windows and a skylight.

The walls are brick. A man stands next to the front turbine on a wooden platform. A competition was held for the design of the buildings. The winners, the Maxwell Brothers of Montreal, designed the Tyndall stone and marble creation that still adorns Wascana Park.

Video Clip Click Here. Visit the City of Regina Archives Web site. Legislative Buildings Regina followed the railway; the railway did not seek out Regina. Josh serves on the board of Pile O' Bones, where he provides creative input, leadership and strategic and business advice to the company.

By day, Josh advocates for Indigenous governments across Western Canada. While travelling in the U. Upon his return to Regina — which at the time was not the home to the vibrant craft beer scene it is today — he was unable to find the types of beer he now craved. He immediately took the opportunity to volunteer time to the club, and served on the executive alongside Glenn and Josh.