Regina, Saskatchewan - Visitor Attractions

Visitor Attractions

Regina is a travel destination for residents of southeastern Saskatchewan and the immediately adjacent regions of the neighbouring US States of North Dakota and Montana, and an intermediate stopping point for travellers on the Trans-Canada Highway. Attractions for visitors in Regina include:

• Wascana Centre, a 9.3 square kilometre park around Wascana Lake bringing together lands and buildings containing contains government, recreational, cultural, educational and environmental facilities.
• the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (a museum of natural history);
• the Saskatchewan Science Centre, housed in the 1914 Powerhouse on east Wascana Lake;
• the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery and numerous smaller galleries and museums;
• the Roman Catholic cathedral on 13th Avenue in the West End, but also perhaps to a somewhat lesser extent the Anglican cathedral in downtown Regina and the Romanian Orthodox cathedral on Victoria Avenue in the East End;
• Knox-Metropolitan United Church on Victoria Park in downtown Regina: the surviving downtown congregation of the United Church (Metropolitan Methodist and the now demolished or closed Knox, Carmichael and St Andrew's United Churches, previously Presbyterian, were its antecedents or now-defunct daughter congregations) with the largest pipe organ in Regina;
• the Mormon Temple, a Mormon conventicle with a beautiful building and lovely grounds;
• the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) national training centre and the museum;
• Government House, where regular tours are available, conducted by guides in "period" costume and the Lieutenant-Governor holds an annual levée on New Year's Day;
• Casino Regina, in the old Union Station;
• the Globe Theatre in the Old Post Office building on the Scarth Street Mall;
• events held at Mosaic Stadium sports stadium and the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts;
• Evraz Place (formerly Ipsco Place, previously Regina Exhibition Park), the venue for the annual Buffalo Days Exhibition summer agricultural fair every August; and
• the Canadian Western Agribition, a winter agricultural show and marketplace.

The former large-scale Children's Day Parade and Travellers' Day Parade during Fair Week in the summer, which were substantially supported by the Masons and Shriners, have been abandoned as (a) other summer civic events have been given a higher profile, (b) the central business district has waned and (c) such service clubs have lost vitality: the Regina Exhibition's travelling midway divides its time among other western Canadian and US cities and is perhaps no longer the attraction it once was in a more parochial community. However, a large Santa Claus parade is now mounted during the lead-up to Christmas.