Anatomy of a Boomtown/Railway Town (Canada/Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba)

2 hours as walking tour

Boomtowns, railway towns and cities are settlements whose economies depend on the local railway, but this definition only skims the surface of how life unfolds in and around these communities. Come and experience on the ground, with an archaeologist, the undiscovered aspects of life in a city designed as a machine to distribute people across the southern Saskatchewan landscape.

Back Alley Safari for Students in the Great Plains: archaeology in Western Canada

2-3 hours

Social Studies teachers are often looking for activities they can do outdoors with their students. This is the perfect opportunity for them to learn about achaeology and the significance of the built environment in Great Plains towns and cities, along themes such as urban morphology, settlement and the study of disasters.

Back Alley Tour in Canada: tracking human mobility, landscape perception

2 hours

Regina's lanes and back alley buildings merge to create back alleys, an untapped resource of the urban tourism potential. Our city has the good fortune of possessing an elaborate network of back alleys. To most city dwellers, back alleys are for garbage disposal, but for many they guarantee anonymity. One Regina artist has built an international career on scenes from our city's back alleys. They hold life, simplicity, even bits and pieces of wilderness for those who, like our excursionists, choose to ignore the negative stigmas associated with this rich and peaceful network of urban trails.

Core Neighbourhood Revitalization Project Tour in Regina

2 hours as walking tour

Regina's ethnic neighboorhood is on the verge of becoming a social laboratory. The original Eastern European settlers are gradually being replaced by people in need of affordable housing. The Core harbours both beauty and ugliness. Beauty may have an edge from now on. The city built a new park in an area that most people had given up for lost. Witness the rebirth of an inner-city neighborhood.

Experience Regina's Night Life Walking Tours

1 to 2 hours

Looking for an off-the-wall festive outing? Unusual night life? Book us up for your work team or celebrate family gatherings during the holidays in a most meaningful way. Our nocturnal urban journeys can be staged just about anywhere. These are archaeological explorations that take guests behind the scenes and allow them to explore undiscovered aspects of the landscape.

First-Class Hotels and Early Places to Stay in Boomtowns like Regina

2 hours as walking tour

Before 1914, the best houses in town were not only those with the finest selection of liquors and cigars, but also those that would avoid being destroyed by fire the longest. This is your invitation to explore some of the more colourful events surrounding Regina's early hospitality industry: liquor sold after hours, daring escapes from fire on the upper floors of some of Regina's  "First-Class" hotels; lodgings in livery stables and in tents were all regular occurrence in Regina at a time of considerable pressure on the city's guests accommodations.

Regina's Wascana Centre Tour

2 hours as walking tour

Wascana Centre is one of North America's largest urban parks and a critical living space for humans and animals. Initially a typical Northern Plains creek flowing Westward through Regina, Wascana Creek turns into a magnificent waterfowl sanctuary and into a full-fledged - albeit artificial - lake, before exiting the city. Through this tour, you will experience the dynamics of this prairie oasis 1900 feet above sea level.