The flag of Regina, Saskatchewan, is a blue background with a yellow stripe at the bottom, with a large royal crown at the canton.
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The colours come from the shield of Regina’s coat of arms, on which blue represents the endless prairie sky and gold represents the fields of wheat which play an important role in the city’s economy. The crown, also from the arms, honours Regina as the provincial capital, as well as its royal roots and its name (Regina is Latin for “queen”). Originally called “Wascana” by the native people, and then its English equivalent, “Pile-of-Bones”, because of the huge piles of bison (buffalo) bones left in the area by First Nations hunters, the community was renamed Regina in 1882. The name honoured Queen Victoria, then the sovereign, and was chosen by her fourth daughter, Princess Louise, the wife of the Marquess of Lorne, the governor general of Canada. Regina has been known as the “Queen City of the Prairies” ever since.[1]
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