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Originally Posted by Bluenote
You know what I like about little Regina is the fact it has all these smaller heritage buildings unlike us in Winnipeg, Bigger doesn't always mean better. The people who created these buildings years ago actually were designers and you can see the pride in their work.
I wish I could dig up the one from the turn of the century though when your city was just a mass of tee pees, it is kinda funny as when you had that we had a real city. But again we are much older. Just weird how a Rail line really made the early west to what it is today. It is also to bad you guys ended up with two cities unlike us, otherwise you would have almost the same as us and probably a lot more competative with your neighbor Calgary.
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The recession is the reason we stopped growing. Saskatchewan was the 3 rd most populous province in the country when it hit, and after that we never really recovered. If it wouldn't have happened we probably would have retained more population and both Regina and Saskatoon would have been much larger today and possibly could have competed on a level basis with both Edmonton and Calgary. But it is what it is and there's no point dwelling on the past and what could have been.
It's also funny that when you were a tent city, cities in Europe had been building palaces, pursuing higher education and churning out priceless artwork for centuries. These places were real cities before Winnipeg was even a thought (I don't mean to start an argument, but that comment of yours came off a little condescending, although I do appreciate the compliment that is sort of in there). Comparing any place in Canada like that is pretty weak as you can point to other places in the world that developed permanent structures/settlements millennia before anything in Canada.
As for the thread topic, with the conversation about the original Leader Building, I have to say I'm quite pleased with how the restoration of the current Leader Building turned out (yes it's been complete for a while, but I thought it deserved a place in this thread).
Source: City of Regina website