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City of Regina fonds Wascana Lake (Sask.)
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Aerial view of Regina looking northeast

Aerial view looking northeast over the city. The Legislative Buildings, Wascana Lake and Campion College are seen in foreground. From Thornton Avenue to outer city limits (north), Rae Street to east edge of Wascana Park.

An empty Wascana Lake

A drained and empty Wascana Lake before it was dredged and deepened in the fall of 1931. As part of a government relief project, 2,100 men (only men who were married and had children were allowed to work on the project) widened and dredged the lake bed and created two islands (Willow and Spruce Island) using only hand tools and horse-drawn wagons.

City of Regina fonds

  • COR
  • Fonds
  • 1882 - 2001

Fonds consists of the records of the City of Regina and its predecessors.

Men at Wascana Lake

8 unidentified men and Bert Humphries (posing with folded arms and white-trimmed suit) in bathing trunks at Wascana Lake on the pier.