Regina, Saskatchewan

===University of Regina===
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[[File:John Archer Library, University of Regina.jpg|thumb|John Archer Library at the [[University of Regina]]. Established in 1911, the institution is the oldest university located in the city.]]
In the years prior to the establishment of the [[University of Saskatchewan]], there was continued debate as to which Saskatchewan city would be awarded the provincial university: ultimately Saskatoon won out over Regina and in immediate reaction the [[Methodist Church of Canada]] established Regina College in 1911. Regina College was initially a denominational high school and junior college affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan – the later-established [[Campion College, Regina|Campion]] and [[Luther College (Saskatchewan)|Luther]] Colleges, operated by the Roman Catholic [[Jesuit Order]] and [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada|Lutheran Church]] respectively, operated on the same basis. The [[Anglican Church of Canada|Church of England]] concurrently established St Chad's College, an Anglican theological training facility, and the Qu'Appelle Diocesan School on the Anglican diocesan property immediately to the east of Regina College on College Avenue. All were quasi-tertiary institutions.

Ultimately, the financially hard-pressed [[United Church of Canada]] (the successor to the Methodist Church), which in any case had ideological difficulties with the concept of fee-paying private schooling given its longstanding espousal of universal free education from the time of its early father [[Egerton Ryerson]], could no longer maintain Regina College during the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s, and Regina College was disaffiliated from the Church and surrendered to the University of Saskatchewan; it became the Regina Campus of the [[University of Saskatchewan]] in 1961. After a protracted contretemps over the siting of several faculties in Saskatoon which had been promised to the Regina campus, Regina Campus sought and obtained a separate charter as the [[University of Regina]] in 1974.

[[Campion College, Regina|Campion College]] and [[Luther College (Saskatchewan)|Luther College]] now have [[federated college]] status in the University of Regina, as does the [[First Nations University of Canada]];<ref>*[http://www.firstnationsuniversity.ca/ First Nations University of Canada] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829224800/http://www.firstnationsuniversity.ca/ |date=29 August 2008 }}. Retrieved 17 July 2007.</ref> The United Church's Regina College has entirely consolidated with the University of Saskatchewan and identified with St Andrew's College there: despite the considerable historical involvement by the Methodist, Presbyterian and Anglican churches in antecedent institutions of the University of Regina. The [[Regina Research Park]] is located immediately adjacent to the main campus and many of its initiatives in information technology, petroleum and environmental sciences are conducted in conjunction with university departments. A member in the research park is Canada's Petroleum Technology Research facility, a world leader in [[Petroleum extraction|oil recovery]] and geological storage of CO<sub >2</sub>.