Saskatchewan Legislative Building and Grounds · Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0
7historic places on the registers
History of Regina · Canada’s heritage registers
Regina has 7 historic places on the registers, 2 in the top tier
The record has 4 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station. Of the dated places, Government House is the oldest, from 1889. Local registers add 10 more places, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds their numbers and little else.
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1889
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
20%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
7 photos and 15 old pictures of heritage Regina
First come Government House and Saskatchewan Legislative Building and Grounds. The photos cover every place on Regina’s registers. 5 of Regina’s places also have old views on their own pages.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Through time
Regina from 1884 to 1934
10 old photographs of the town, then the oldest views of 5 of its historic places, set out by date. Tap any picture to see it full screen.
1875190019251950Confederation to 1900Boom yearsThe wars and betweenAfter the war
Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
How it began
Regina’s early dates, from 1882
By 1912 the place had a station: Casino Regina. As a municipality, Regina carries the date 1882 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation. Regina takes its name from Victoria.
The municipality of Regina was incorporated as a city in 1903.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsOther federal designationsProvincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 7, by tier
2 Highest designations1 Other federal designations4 Provincial and local listings
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
2 places in Regina with the highest designation
The oldest, Government House, dates from 1889; the newest from 1908. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. They were designated between 1968 and 2005. Each one opens its own page.
Two groups top Regina’s list: stations, lighthouses and bridges and public buildings, 2 each
The list spans 5 kinds of place. At the head of the list: Government House and Saskatchewan Legislative Building and Grounds.
Stations, lighthouses and bridges2
Public buildings2
Mills, shops and works1
Churches and religious buildings1
Other places1
Kinds read from each place’s name and the functions its register gives; a building keeps the kind it was built as.
Provincial and local listings
4 more places Regina or its province protects
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. The oldest, Knox-Metropolitan United Church, dates from 1907; the newest from 1930. Each one opens its own page.
For Regina, most dated places belong to the decades after Confederation
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
British North America 1760–18660
After Confederation 1867–19135
Wars and Depression 1914–19451
Since 1946 1946 on0
Homes by age
7% of Regina’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Like the typical town (18%), Regina has 20% of its homes from before 1961. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 35% of Regina’s homes. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 20% of Regina’s, against 15% in the typical town.
20%
Before 1961
35%
1961–80
19%
1981–2000
20%
2001–15
7%
2016–21
ReginaTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
15 Regina births on record from before 1914
The widest known is Harmon Jones: 10 Wikipedia editions. In 1886 came the earliest, Arthur LeRoy Smith. Of them all, Claire Lovett lived longest: 95 years, until 2005. George Chiga closes the list, born in 1913.
Arthur LeRoy Smith
Norman R. Walker
Red McCusker
Earl Miller
Leonard Grieve Robinson
Spence Caldwell
Claire Lovett
Gordon Burton Grant
Harmon Jones
Muriel Kerr
Max Bell
Arthur Covington
Don Deacon
Emil Mazey
George Chiga
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Harmon Jones1911–1972 · Canadian film director and film editor
Earl Miller1905–1936 · Canadian ice hockey player
CL
Claire Lovett1910–2005 · Canadian badminton player
Arthur Covington1913–2001 · Canadian physicist
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Don Deacon1913–1943 · Canadian ice hockey player
Arthur LeRoy Smith1886–1951 · Canadian politician
MK
Muriel Kerr1911–1963 · Canadian pianist and music educator
NW
Norman R. Walker1889–1949 · American politician
Everyone born in Regina → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Housing in Regina includes 20% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 7 historic places, 2 with the highest designation. Of the 6 with a date, 5 come from the decades after Confederation. Harmon Jones (1911), Earl Miller (1905) and Claire Lovett (1910) are the best known of its historic lives. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1968 and 2005.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
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The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
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Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
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The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
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People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
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The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
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Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
Questions about Regina’s history
Which places in Regina have the highest designation?
Government House and Saskatchewan Legislative Building and Grounds.
What is the oldest building in Regina?
Government House, a National Historic Site, begun in 1889.
Why might a heritage building in Regina be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 10 more listings in Regina are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
How old are the homes in Regina?
20% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
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