Title: Territorial Government Building
Date: ca. 1890s
Retrieval Number: CORA-RPL-B-506
Extent: 1 B&W Print; 20.5cm x 25 cm
Scope and Content Note: Man with horse and buggy posing in front of the Territorial Government Building .
Access Restrictions: None
Photographer: Unknown
Parent fonds/collection: RPL Photograph Collection
Historical Note: Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney arranged to have the Territorial Administration Building constructed, along with the North West Mounted Police barracks and Government House, in the area of town we now think of as the west end. Dewdney himself owned land near these locations, so he probably anticipated that there would be a rise in land prices in the area when the government buildings were constructed there. Unfortunately for Dewdney, the CPR did not share his vision - the railroad built its lines and its train station on Section 19, which was half a mile east of the original township sections. It was the section 19 location that would prove most attractive to new settlers, and section 19 became what is still the centre of Regina . The government buildings to the west of the new settlement have always been on the edge of the city.