HISTORY
1882 was a very eventful year for the site called Pile O' Bones.
- - the first train arrived
- site renamed Regina
- N.W.M.P. headquarters moved to Regina
- first wooden shack was built
- post office and bank opened
- a church was built
- 1883 - Regina became a town; school and newpaper office (Leader) opened; St. Paul's Church built; Court House opened in a downtown building; a well was dug; school was set up in a private home
- 1884 - a fair was held; first public school established
- 1885 - North West Rebellion & trial of Louis Riel; Knox Presbyterian Church built
- 1886 - Town Hall built (also used as a school, fire hall, jail)
- 1887 - Telephone service arrived
- 1889 - school built (Hamilton and 11th); hospital set up in a home
- 1890 - first electric lights
- 1892 - police officer hired
- 1894 - larger Court House built
- 1895 - Anglican Church opened (St.Paul's); first Territorial Exhibition was held
- 1898 - Government House and Cottage Hospital opened (Hamilton and 13th)
- 1899 - first Roman Catholic Separate School is established
- 1901 - Victoria Hospital built
- 1903 - Regina had 3000 people, became a city
- 1905 - Regina became the capital city of the Province of Saskatchewan.
- 1906 - A street is paved, concrete sidewalks; Knox Church built (Lorne & 12th);
CNR (railway) arrived in Regina; first movie was shown in a tent - 1907 - Fire Station built on Hamilton Street; General Hospital opened (100 beds)
- 1908 - Began construction of the Legislative Building; City Hall opened (Rose and Hamilton St.)
- 1909 - A high school (Regina Collegiate Institute) built; library opened; curling rink made with nine sheets of ice; Post Office completed on Scarth and 11th Ave. (photo)
- 1910 - Grey Nuns Hospital built; first department store; Regina Theatre built with over 800 seats
- 1911 - Four streetcars were in use; Fire Hall #2 opened (Scarth St. & 8th Ave.); Regina College established as a residential high school
- 1912 - Legislative Building (photo) officially opened; Union Station (railroad) opened; cyclone (tornado) hit Regina
- 1913 - Sherwood Dept. Store opened; Holy Rosary Cathedral finished
- 1914 - Fire Hall #3 (Robinson & 14th) and Fire Hall #4 (Winnipeg and Victoria) opened
- 1916 - Oil refinery built
- 1918 - Flu epidemic swept the city (350 died)
- 1920 - Airport built
- 1921 - Central Fire Hall opened (1600 block 11th Ave.); Capital Theatre built
- 1922 - CKCK Radio broadcasted; Wascana flooded - 75 homes underwater.
- 1927 - Hotel Saskatchewan built
- 1928 - General Motors Assembly Plant opened
- 1929 - Darke Hall (performing arts centre) opened
- 1935 - Regina Riot
- 1930 - Albert Street Memorial Bridge built (photo)
- 1939 - King George and Queen Elizabeth visited
- 1947 - First trolleys - electrical cars with rubber tires
- 1950 - Oil pipeline reached Regina; Queen City drive-in theatre opened with speakers for 500 cars
- 1954 - CKCK TV station broadcasted (first tv station in western Canada)
- 1955 - Museum opened (photo); first diesel buses
- 1956 - Prairie Pipe Manufacturing Co. opened a steel pipe plant
- 1959 - Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited
- 1961 - present-day Court House officially opened
- 1962 - IPSCO steel mill opened
- 1963 - laying of cornerstone for the University, Regina Campus
- 1965 - Northgate Mall Shopping Centre opened
- 1970 - Centre of the Arts opened
- 1971 - first Canadian Western Agribition was held
- 1973 - Plains Hospital opened; Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited
- 1975 - Southland Mall opened
- 1976 - Regina had a new city hall (photo); Saskatchewan Indian Federated College established (SIFC became First Nations University of Canada in 2003)
- 1977 - Agridome opened on the Exhibition Grounds
- 1978 - Western Canada Farm Progress Show began
- 1979 - Candy Cane Park built
- 1983 - Construction of Tower 1 (McCallum Hill Centre) , 22 storey building with reflective glass
- 1986 - Co-op Upgrader began operation
- 1989 - Saskatchewan Science Centre opened
- 1992 - Tower 2 built next to Tower 1; now called Twin Towers
- 2002 - Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios is constructed.
- 2003 - Regina turned 100 years old; hosted the CFL Grey Cup game;
- 2004 - Corner Gas first epsidode aired in January; project to deepen Wascana Lake
- 2005 - Jeux de Canada Summer Games hosted by U. of Regina; Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip helped celebrate the Saskatchewan Centennial
- 2007 - RCMP Heritage Centre opened
- 2008 - New Bus Depot opened downtown
- 2011 - Regina Transit 100th anniversary
- 2012 - Legislative Building 100th anniversary
