پاسخ : همه سوالات شما درباره پذیرش از دانشگاه Regina
Regina began as an agricultural community, providing a distribution point for farm materials and produce for a wide area. In the early 1880s, there was little here – just fertile land, a smallcreek and a great deal of potential.
Originally called Pile of Bones because of the huge piles of buffalo bones left in the area by First Nations hunters, the community was renamed Regina (Latin for queen) after Queen Victoria, who was the monarch at the time. It has been the “Queen City” ever since.
The arrival of the railroad in 1882 led to rapid growth of the small village. Immigrants from Europe and the United States bought fertile homesteads for just $10. Regina became the capital of the Northwest Territories – a 2.5-million sq. mile land mass larger than present-day Europe. In 1883, the North West Mounted Police moved their headquarters to Regina. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police training facility is still in the city and Regina is proud to be the “home of the RCMP.”
Regina grew quickly during its first few years, becoming a city in 1903. When Saskatchewan became a province in 1905, Regina was chosen as its capital. Construction of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building began in 1908. The creek passing in front of the Legislature was dammed and the lake became the focus for a large park. It later became Wascana Centre, one of North America’s largest urban parks.
Regina’s rapid growth was slowed by drought and poor crops in the settlement’s early years. A tornado in 1912 devastated parts of the residential area south of downtown, the downtown, and the warehouse district north of the railway. Twenty-eight people were killed and thousands lost their homes.
The economy of Regina and region is now strong and diversified. Though farming remains a core industry, oil, potash, finance, telecommunications, natural gas, filmmaking, steel pipe production, and technology are very important. An oil upgrader and refinery takes Saskatchewan’s heavy crude and turns it into gasoline and other products. Potash and nitrogen-based fertilizers are produced in plants west of the city. A steel pipe manufacturing plant has been located here since the 1950s. Regina Research Park, located adjacent to the university, is working on technologies vital to our future, such as greenhouse gases and their effect on global warming. As provincial capital, Regina is also home to head offices of most Crown-owned corporations, as well as many federal regional offices.
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