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Regina

city and capital of the Province of Saskatchewan; formerly capital of the Northwest Territories, Canada; on the Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, and Grand Trunk Pacific railroads, 356 miles W. of Winnipeg. Here are the government buildings and the headquarters of the Mounted Police and of the Indian Department. The town contains churches representing the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic bodies. It is ste steadily growing in importance as a manufactur- REGISTRATION ing and trade center. Louis Riel, the half-breed insurgent, was executed here in 1885.

Regina nobly responded to the call for troops in 1914-sending 4 battalions as fighting units to the front and thousands as re-enforcements. Pop. about 40,000.

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