Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
Qu'Appelle (/kwəˈpɛl/) is a town in Saskatchewan, located on Highway 35 approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of the provincial capital of Regina.
Qu'Appelle
Troy, Qu'Appelle Station, South Qu'Appelle | |
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Town | |
Main Street, Qu'Appelle, 2008. | |
Qu'Appelle Qu'Appelle | |
| Coordinates: 50°32′33″N 103°52′25″W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Saskatchewan |
| Census division | 6 |
| Rural Municipality | South Qu'Appelle |
| Post office founded | 1882 |
| Incorporated (village) | N/A |
| Incorporated (town) | February 20, 1903 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ron Heisler |
| • Administrator | Ronda Heisler |
| • Governing body | Qu'Appelle Town Council |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.22 km2 (1.63 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 662.9 m (2,174.9 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 668 |
| • Density | 158.1/km2 (409/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CST |
| Postal code | S0G 4A0 |
| Area code | 306 |
| Highways | Highway 1, Highway 35 |
| Website | |
Qu'Appelle was for a time the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the major distribution centre for what was then the District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories and is now southern Saskatchewan. The town is situated in a lush rolling parkland, with intermittent coulees containing steady-flowing creeks running into the Qu'Appelle Valley, poplar bluffs, and sloughs.
Qu'Appelle had at one stage been credibly anticipated to be the major metropole of the North-West Territories by both the federal Government of Canada and the Church of England (since 1955 the Anglican Church of Canada). It was under serious consideration by the Government of Canada as district headquarters of the District of Assiniboia and territorial headquarters of the North-West Territories. The Church of England had in anticipation of Qu'Appelle's future urban importance designated it the cathedral city for the Diocese of Qu'Appelle, which geographically corresponded precisely to the District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories.
Political events, however, passed Qu'Appelle entirely by when Lieutenant-Governor Edgar Dewdney selected the locale of his own landholdings at Pile-O-Bones (then renamed "Regina" by Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, when her husband John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne was Governor General) as his territorial capital: Qu'Appelle's significance other than in historical terms then largely lapsed.