Beginnings And Landmarks

Saskatchewan Cities At A Glance

Regina Morning Leader
January 3, 1911. p.4

In its annual review of the growth of the cities of Western Canada during the year just ended, the Winnipeg Free Press publishes interesting statistics, a study of which go to show that Saskatchewan and Alberta cities are developing with amazing rapidity, and are year by year carrying out those public improvements which are giving them a permanence and solidarity that will in a very few years more rank them with the best cities of Eastern Canada. In the course of a few introductory remarks on the building record, the Free Press said:

Although none of the Saskatchewan cities have as yet reached the same population as that of Edmonton, nevertheless Regina and Saskatoon are making rapid progress in that direction, and in both cases their building permits exceed those issued by the Alberta capital. It might be added that although the Saskatchewan cities have not yet reached the twenty thousand mark in population, they are showing remarkable activity in so far as building is concerned. Saskatoon increased 218 per cent., Regina 212, and Prince Albert 386. Moose Jaw permits are slightly below those of the previous years, but, what that city has lost in buildings it has made up in municipal improvements. On the whole, it might be said that Saskatchewan cities have shown the fastest gait of any of the prairie provinces in so far as new buildings are concerned.”

In many instances the figures given by the Free Press are estimates based on actual returns for the greater part of the year, and a conservative compilation for the balance of the year. The statistics given by the Free Press under different heads for the four Saskatchewan cities are as follows:

Population: