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Walter Scott to Levi Thomson 23 July 1907 [page 2 of 2]
23 July 1907



Credits:
SAB. Walter Scott Papers. Microfilm R-7.1. file IV.27.

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The decision to place the university in Saskatoon, however dismal it may have seemed for Regina, led to a decades-long fight for its own university. Raymond Blake, writing on the University of Saskatchewan's loss of university autonomy with the establishment of the University of Regina in 1974, notes that "[w]hat best serves the real or perceived needs of a single institution may not, in consequence, best serve the needs of the province". Though it may have been best for the institution of the university to remain autonomous and singular, it was best for the province to have two universities.

Though Thomson was unsuccessful in obtaining court for Wolseley, the loss of the court and the judicial system did not lead to the slow degradation of the community; in fact, the closure of the courthouse in 1909 established space for new institutions. Thus, the literal and tangible foundation laid by the judicial system allowed the community stability and sustainability not previously offered by the courthouse.