Sacred Heart College - Stella Oriens Yearbook (Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)

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I. Four As guaranteed in this subject (Bridge). — 2. Phyllis, high on a snowy hill. ■ 3. Fran. 4. Margaret finally outgrew the doghouse. — 5. Fran hasn ' t hung up yet. 6. Peggy (Sonja Henie) O ' Flanagan. - 7. Margie, Helen and Vivian (The Normalites). 8. N.B. A Set Up . — 9. Peggy, Helen Margie. A skating we will go. — 10. Phyll on her way home. Seven P.M. no doubt. — II. Senorita O ' Flanagan. — 12. School is just one r round of pleasj

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wandering foot. He had pioneered on the West Coast of British Columbia and then when the building of the C.P.R. began, he was first in the crowd. He would build a good home and then send for me and the rest of the family. Do you know, she continued, it is difficult for me to think of him as dead. I think he has gone to some new, far country where there ' s no more travelling, and 1 think he ' s waiting for us there. In 1882 a French-Canadian named Pascal Bonneau had a sub-contract on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and found himself camped on the site of the new capital. At the request of Mr. Bonneau, Father Hugonard came from the Ou ' Ap- pelle Mission to celebrate Mass for him and his workmen, who were for the most part of the same nationality as their chief. This Mass was celebrated in a tent and was the first ever said on the very spot where Regina now stands. One matter here connected with Regina ' s first season of ' 82 deserves perhaps more than a passing interest. All our early settlers agree that the adequate moisture of our soil, the abundance of water in the sloughs, and the luxuriant grasses and herbage which everywhere met the eye in 1882, could only have been produced by a succession of moist seasons. The Wascana, south of the town was then a creek expansion of fair volume, which exceeded a stone ' s throw in width. Early prices in Regina may be of interest. Wood fetched $12 a load; creek water sold at 50c a barrel; bread sold for 25c a loaf; teamsters got $16 a day, or $1.50 a half hour; carpenters got $5 a day, and tinsmiths made little fortunes. Money circulated freely, and everybody rode the horse of high hopes and great expectation. Carpenters and tinsmiths did not come in for the lion ' s share of circula¬ tion capital in those pioneer days. The hotel keeper was around and pegged his tent wherever a good opening occurred for the disposal of bacon, beef, bunks and beer. At 9 o ' clock on 23 of Aug., 1882, the C.P.R. reached banks of Wascana. A large party assembled in Mr. Van Horne ' s special car with much enthusiasm. Among those present Lieut.-Gov. and Mrs. Dewdney, Hon. Judge Johnson, Mr. D. McIntyre, Vice President of Railway, Hon. A. Smith and Miss Smith, General Manager Van Horne. The christening took place that day and Regina, Queen City of the Plains came into being. The name was chosen by Princess Louise, Great- Aunt of His Majesty King George VI, who was at that time in Canada with her husband, the Marquis of Lome, then Governor-General. Princess Louise died December 1939. D. L. Scott, Q.C. was the first mayor. TWENTY-EIGHT

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The winter of 1882-3 passed off pleasantly, all drawbocks considered. The town was yet on odd-looking jumble, the streets were neither laid out, nor graded, a sort of diluvian confusion characterizing everything. But materials were at hand for the building of the city, the surveyor and architect had not been idle and cheerful industry merely awaited the breath of spring- tide to lay the solid foundations of a handsome prairie town. Early in ' 83 new buildings began to loom up along Broad Street; the railway traffic increased; arrangements were made for digging a public well; a citizen, Regina Mary Rowell, had been born to the town in December, 1882. Lawyers by the dozens had hung out their shingles and hotels were full, and the lands around Regina for twenty miles were taken up. The Canadian North West Land Company opened their office on Broad Street and the town boasted a school with Miss Laidlaw as teacher. Buildings went up on all sides, and the sound of the hammer was heard far and near. In the middle of April there were fifteen buildings used as stores, two banks, four large feed stables, two carriage shops and four good hotels. Early in May Mr. W. B. Scarth, able and popular managing director of N. W. Land C ompany wired Mr. Lunan to grade the streets, a work immediately begun under contractor Bonneau. Mr. Scarth also intimated his willingness to give $500 towards the building of a bridge across Wascana. In 1883, Father St. Germain said Mass for a group of Metis, and during the course of the same year efforts were made to establish a regular parish by a secular priest. Father L. N. Larche. The first visit of Archbishop Tache was in 1884, when he came to consecrate the little church that had been built on the corner of Twelfth Avenue and Cornwall Street. Bishop Grandin assisted the Archbishop who performed the ceremony in the presence of the elite of Regina. Among the first parishioners were P. Bonneau and Family, Dan Mur¬ phy, Ed. McCarthy, Miss McCarthy, Mrs. Hayes, organist, Mr. and Mrs. Forget, (the first lieut. gov. of the Province of Saskatchewan), Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bour- get, Mr. and Mrs. Waldron whose daughter was the first child baptized in the new church. In the evening a concert was held at which His Honor Lieuten¬ ant-Governor Dewdney and Mrs. Dewdney, together with the notables of the town were present. A large sum was realized which went towards the liquid¬ ation of the church debt. In 1885 Father Larche was succeeded by Father McCarthy and Father Graton arrived from Montreal in May of the following year. First annual exhibition was held on the 2nd and 3rd of Oct. 1884. Money prizes valued at $1500 and entries numbered 986. Showground for horses and cattle was Victoria Square, while the courtroom and vacant store-room in Scarth ' s Building were utilized for exhibits of grain, roots and vegetables. In 1885 an event took place which made Regina, for the time being, the centre of the world, for on May 23 of that year, Louis David Riel was taken THIRTY