History Matters: Access to water was major concern for new Regina capital

It didn’t make any sense.
One critic called the site “one of the worst spots in the territories.” Another decried the choice as “lunacy.”
Still another could not resist poking fun at town life on the flat, windblown prairie: “It would be almost absurd to go out for a ride as it is never possible to get out of sight of one’s front door.”
What they were talking about was the 1882 selection of Regina as the capital of the North-West Territories.
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