Regina — Lewvan, sk

Originally referred to “the place where bones were piled”, because of the stacks of buffalo remains left behind by Indigenous hunters, the area that is now Regina would only begin to be settled by Europeans in the 1880s. They too would refer to the area as “Pile of Bones” and the settlement was called that in early 1882.

Later that year the settlement was renamed Regina (the Latin word for queen) in honour of Queen Victoria -- a suggestion made by Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Louise who was married to the then Governor General.