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Qu'Appelle is a town in Saskatchewan, located on Highway 35 approximately 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 (since 1955 the Anglican Church of Canada). 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.〔The Diocese of Qu'Appelle geographically remains largely coterminus with the old District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories, though a strip of the diocese which fell over the 1905 boundary between the new provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta was ceded to the Diocese of Calgary in the 1970s.〕 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. ==Name== The CPR arrived in 1882-83,〔David McLennon, "Qu'Appelle," (Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan ) Retrieved 29 November 2008.〕 and the post office was founded at what was originally called Troy on August 1, 1882. For a time Qu'Appelle appeared likely to be the administrative headquarters for the District of Assiniboia, which corresponded to the southern portion of the present day province of Saskatchewan. Two versions of the origin of the name "Troy" are proposed: That (1) it was named after Troy, Ontario by Wellington Mulholland, a land surveyor and land agent and (2) the name was chosen by the brothers Stephen and James Caswell who were merchants in the area and managed the post office. Original settlers hung onto the old name of "Troy" well into the 20th century. When the Canadian Pacific Railway arrived in 1884 the new town was renamed Qu'Appelle Station in reference to the nearby Qu'Appelle Valley, which was the location of a long-established Hudson's Bay Company factory.〔David McLennon, ("Qu'Appelle," ''Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan'' ), retrieved 30 September 2008.〕 The name "Qu'Appelle," a corruption of ''qui appelle'', French for "Who calls?" refers to the once-popular legend of the Qu'Appelle Valley versified by E. Pauline Johnson: In 1902 the name was changed to South Qu'Appelle〔 and in 1911 the longstanding confusion as to the name "Qu'Appelle," which also referred to the former Hudson's Bay Company fort town in the Qu'Appelle Valley, to the northeast of Qu'Appelle, was resolved when the two communities agreed to deem the then-CPR station site as Qu'Appelle and the town in the valley as Fort Qu'Appelle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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