Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province, after Saskatoon, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. As of the 2021 census, Regina had a city population of 226,404, and a Metropolitan Area population of 249,217. It is governed by Regina City Council. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Sherwood No. 159.
Joseph Thauberger was a Canadian politician. Born in Bessarabia, he emigrated to Canada from Russia with his parents, Andreas Thauberger and Maria Eva in 1911.
Morris Cyril "Shumi" Shumiatcher was a Canadian lawyer, human rights activist, philanthropist, arts patron, art collector, author, and lecturer. As senior legal counsel in the provincial government of Tommy Douglas, he drafted the 1947 Saskatchewan Bill of Rights, the first such bill in the British Commonwealth. He established a successful private law practice in Regina in 1949 and argued numerous cases of constitutional law before the Supreme Court of Canada. He and his wife Jacqui contributed millions of dollars to support the arts, universities, and other charities in Regina, and also amassed a significant private collection of Inuit art in Canada. He was the recipient of many awards and honours, including the Order of Canada in 1981 and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 1997.
Regina City is a former provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Evatt Francis Anthony "Tony" Merchant, is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and former politician. His law firm Merchant Law Group LLP, which he founded in 1986, is best known for representing former students of Indian residential schools in the $1.9 billion Indian Residential School Settlement in 2006, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history. Prior to founding his law firm, Merchant represented Regina Wascana in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal member. Merchant was named a Queen's Counsel in 1995.
Edward Cyril "Ted" Malone is a retired Saskatchewan lawyer, politician and judge. He represented Regina Lakeview in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1973 to 1978 and was leader of the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan from 1976 to 1981.
James Balfour, was an educator, lawyer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He served as mayor of Regina, Saskatchewan in 1915 and 1931.
James McAra was a Scottish-born businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He served as mayor of Regina from 1927 to 1930 and from 1932 to 1933.
Peter McAra Jr. was a businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was mayor of Regina in 1906 and from 1911 to 1912.
Cornelius Rink was a Dutch-born businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He served as mayor of Regina from 1934 to 1935.
Richard Henry Williams was a Canadian lumber merchant and political figure in the province of Saskatchewan. He was mayor of Regina, the province's capital and second-largest city, from 1891 to 1892 and from 1909 to 1910.
Thomas George McNall (1874–1953) was a merchant and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was mayor of Regina from 1945 to 1946.
Jacob W. Smith was a businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was mayor of Regina in 1899, from 1902 to 1903 and from 1907 to 1908. He ran for the Territorial Legislature three times between 1894 and 1902, in the riding of South Regina. He lost each time, once to Daniel Mowat and twice to James Hawkes.
William Ethelbert Mason was a businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was mayor of Regina from 1925 to 1926.
Stewart Coulter Burton was a wholesale grocer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was mayor of Regina from 1923 to 1924.
Alban Cedric Ellison was an English-born lawyer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was mayor of Regina from 1936 to 1939.
John Kenneth McInnis was an educator, journalist, farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was mayor of Regina in 1899.
James Franklin Bole was a businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Regina City in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1905 to 1915 as a Liberal.
Clair Joseph Warner was an American-born Canadian football player and executive. He played seven seasons with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, before starting an executive career that spanned 37 seasons until his death in 1970. He was a 1965 inductee to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Dave Dryburgh was a Scotland-born Canadian sports journalist. A native of Kirkcaldy and an immigrant to Regina, he reported on the soccer games in which he played for The Leader-Post. As the newspaper's sports editor from 1932 to 1948, he primarily covered Canadian football and the Regina Roughriders, and ice hockey in Western Canada. His columns "Sport Byways" and "Dryburgh" give a first-hand account of sporting events, and were read widely in Western Canada. As the secretary of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association during the 1930s and 1940s, he established its registration system including the history of each player. He also served as the official statistician for baseball, softball and hockey leagues in Saskatchewan.
