page_title: Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
section_title: Infrastructure
hierarchical_section_title: Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan / Infrastructure
caption_attribution_description: English: Pacific Avenue, circa 1910
context_page_description: Qu'Appelle is a town in Saskatchewan, located on Highway 35 approximately 50 kilometres east of the provincial capital of Regina.
  Qu'Appelle was for a time the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway 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 and the Church of England. It was under serious consideration by the federal government 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.
caption: Pacific Avenue "highway" from Indian Head to the east to McLean, Balgonie and Regina to the west, passing through Qu'Appelle at the south end of Main Street circa 1910. This was the predecessor of Trans-Canada Highway, whose relocation a quarter of a mile (400 m) south further hastened the end of Qu'Appelle's commercial viabity.
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