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City of Regina Archives
Photograph Collection,
CORA-B-546 |
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Title: Bird's-eye View of Downtown
Regina
Date: 1911
Retrieval Number: CORA-B-546
Extent: 1 B&W Print: 20.5 cm x 25 cm
Scope and Content Note: Bird's-eye view of downtown Regina
, looking east down 11 th Avenue . McCallum Hill Building is under construction.
Old Post Office is visible in far right of frame.
Access Restrictions: None
Photographer: Unknown
Parent fonds/collection: CORA Photograph Collection
Historical Note: It is fair to say that Regina would look a
lot different if Walter A. Hill and E.A. McCallum had never formed a partnership.
Hill was a schoolteacher and McCallum was a notary public. In 1903 the two men
created the McCallum Hill Company. The corporation's first purchase was some
land south of Wascana Creek. This was a very fortunate purchase - some of that
land was purchased by the provincial government to serve as the site of the
new legislative building. The firm began to develop the land to the west of
the Legislative Building into a new subdivision called Lakeview. From these
humble beginnings, an empire was born. In 1912, McCallum Hill opened Regina
's first high-rise building, the McCallum Hill Building . It was ten stories
high and had three elevators. It even had its own well and power plant. The
McCallum Hill building was imploded in 1982 to make way for the latest venture
of the Hill family, Tower 1 of the Twin Towers . (The McCallum family had long
since been bought out by the Hill family, and the company formerly known as
McCallum Hill is now known as Harvard Developments Inc.) The destruction of
the McCallum Hill Building took six seconds thanks to 200 pounds of explosives. |
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