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Instantly to the north of the main enterprise zone is the old storage facility district, significantly the focus of shopping, bars and property development; as in other western cities of The United States and Canada, the periphery consists of going shopping malls and huge box stores. In 1912, the Regina Cyclone ruined much of the town; in the 1930s, the Regina Riot brought more attention and, in the midst of the 1930s dry spell and Excellent Anxiety, which hit the Canadian Prairies particularly hard with their economic concentrate on dry land grain farming.

In recent years, Saskatchewan's farming and mineral resources have actually entered new demand, and it has actually entered a new period of strong economic development. History [edit] Early history (18821945) [modify] Regina was developed 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 much better established 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 in between 2 lakes).

These areas had adequate access to water and resided on treed rolling parklands. "Pile-of-Bones", as the website for Regina was then called (or, in Cree, Oskana k-asastki), was by contrast situated in arid and featureless grassland.  This Is Cool -Governor Dewdney had actually acquired land adjacent to the path of the future CPR line at Pile-of-Bones, which was differentiated only by collections of bison bones near a small spring run-off creek, some few kilometres downstream from its origin in the middle of what are now wheat fields.

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However up until 1897, when responsible government was achieved in the Territories, the lieutenant-governor and council governed by fiat and there was little legitimate means of challenging such choices outside the federal capital of Ottawa. There, the Territories were remote and of little concern. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, better half of the then Governor General of Canada, named the new community Regina, in honour of her mother, Queen Victoria.