Update: February 23rd

A representative from Westcliff Developments, the development company behind the currently ongoing transformation of the previous St. Francis school site into housing, will be attending our upcoming community association meeting on March 2nd, at 7:00pm at Queen Elizabeth School. If you are interested in learning more about this soon to be new part of our community, please join us at our next community association meeting.

As you may already know, awâsisak kâ-nîmîhtocik St. Francis School has moved from its location in the Exhibition neighbourhood into a new building on Seventh Street to help address their growing student population. At the start of the 2025-2026 school year, the students and staff transitioned to the new building, with the official opening event being held on October 3, 2025. If you would like to know more about the new awâsisak kâ-nîmîhtocik St. Francis School, you can read this CBC article. At the time of writing, the former school building is being demolished, as the building layout and condition made it too difficult to reuse for other purposes.

Recently, WestCliff Developments, the developers of the land at 2141 McPherson Avenue that awâsisak kâ-nîmîhtocik St. Francis School once occupied, has reached out to QEXCA to provide more information about what is happening with the land. Currently, the developers are aiming to start construction on the land in spring 2026, pending approval of city permits.

The plot of land will be host to a 4-story apartment building with approximately 113 units of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom layouts. This apartment building will include a resident lounge, fitness center, dog wash station along with smart building access and parcel system. On the outside of the building, the landscaping will be updated to allow for green space areas to be enjoyed by the residents of the building. Besides the apartment building, there will be 17, 3-bedroom town homes on the plot of land.

In the future, any more information that QEXCA receives will be added to this page.

To help fund our new snowblower, we are partnering with the Saskatoon Blades!

We are providing tickets to the Wednesday, February 11th game where our Saskatoon Blades will be battling the Regina Pats, which will be a great game! You can use our link below to purchase tickets for the game, as the ticket price you pay through our fundraiser is the same amount that the Blades already charge for tickets it means that you will support community association with no extra cost to you!
It’s a win-win for both you and your community association.

What is better than one set of hockey tickets? Two sets of tickets, of course! As this game is the Blades Winning Wednesday game, it means that if the blades win this game then everyone in attendance will get free tickets to the following game on Friday, February 13 where the Saskatoon Blades will face the Swift Current Broncos.

QEXCA is the proud owner of a new snowblower to help with clearing the rinks of snow! As our last snowblower was too damaged from the long years of usage for us to keep repairing it. To help cover the cost of our replacement we are asking for donations, alongside hosting fundraisers including our Saskatoon Blades Ticket Fundraiser.

You can also donate through Sarcan! When taking in your recyclables, use our organization’s phrase of QEXCA when making a drop of at a Drop & Go station.

If you would like to donate to our snowblower replacement fund, contact us at
president@qexca.ca.

Our cross country ski trail has been groomed at Weaver Park and is ready to use! If you do use this trail, make sure to be considerate to the trail and park, any other skiers and the residents around the park.

We hope that you enjoy the trail!

Thank you to our rink volunteers for helping upgrade our rink at Achs park. These volunteers installed puck board around the rink, this installation was expected to take two days but thanks to the efforts of the volunteers it only took one! If you see any of the Rink Crew at one of our two community rinks this winter, please give them a thanks for helping make sure our rinks are kept in good condition for our community to use.

We are looking for a CPA to conduct a review of QEXCA’s financial statements for the June 30 2025 fiscal year end. Very simple with about 100 transactions annually.

If you are interested, you can send us your quote to treasurer@qexca.ca.

Everyone at the QEXCA thanks you, Dwight, for your commitment to helping every resident of the Queen Elizabeth, Exhibition and Haultain neighbourhoods. Joining the QEXCA in 2022, Dwight Doering became the hidden hero of the association, taking on the role of Treasurer. Through the volunteering of his time, Dwight made sure the bills were settled for all of the association’s offerings, whether that be for the printing and distributing of our newsletters or making sure the lights at our rinks were available for the community to see while they were on the ice. Without his help and dedication of his time, QEXCA would not have been operating at the same capacity we have been since 2022.

Once again, QEXCA thanks you Dwight for all of the effort you contributed to make our community a better place.

If you would like to leave a comment thanking Dwight for helping our community, or to leave a comment for his family, please visit Prairie View Memorial Services website.

Congratulations to Lauren Wakelam for being QEXCA’s Volunteer of the Month for December 2025!

Congratulations to Lauren Wakelam for being the Volunteer of the Month for December 2024! Lauren bought her first house in the Exhibition area earlier this year. Prior to that, she lived in the Queen Elizabeth area for 4 years. She is currently serving as the President of the QEXCA. Lauren sells building materials for a living, and in her spare time she enjoys gardening, and cooking. She is excited to spend her first holiday season in her new house, with her son and their dog.

Thank you for volunteering, Lauren!

Learn about Volunteers from previous years.

If there is someone volunteering for the Association whom you feel deserves recognition, send your nomination by email to volunteers@qexca.ca.

This holiday season we, your community association for the Queen Elizabeth, Exhibition and West Haultain neighborhoods, are conducting a food drive from December 12–20 to help restock the food lockers in our community. To help make this food drive a success, we are asking for community members to donate non-perishable food items. We already have plans in place to pick up and distribute these donations, so all you have to do is decide what you would like to donate.

If you would like to donate to this food drive, please fill out this form so we can make arrangements to pick up your donation. If you would like more information about this food drive, or would like to donate, but there are no pick up times that work with your schedule, feel free to email us at info@qexca.ca.

Congratulations to Cat Woloschuk for being QEXCA’s Volunteer of the Month for November 2024!

Cat has lived in the Haultain neighbourhood for the last 12 years and has enjoyed receiving the QEXCA newsletter in the mailbox each Fall. A recent graduate from the U of S, Cat joined QEXCA this summer as the newsletter coordinator and was recently elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM. Cat is passionate about lifelong learning, safeguarding tangible & intangible heritage for current & future generations, building community connections, and thoroughly enjoys walking around the QEXCA neighbourhoods – feel free to say hi if you see Cat out and about!

Thank you for volunteering, Cat!

Learn about Volunteers from previous years.

If there is someone volunteering for the Association whom you feel deserves recognition, send your nomination by email to volunteers@qexca.ca.

Do you want to dance and boogie the night away in a fun and spooky way, and do you live in Queen Elizabeth, Exhibition or West Haultain? If yes, then plan on stopping by the Halloween Dance at the Queen Elizabeth School gym on Friday, October 25. This free dance is taking place at 7-9pm and includes a live DJ!
We’ll see you there!!

With winter slowly approaching, QEXCA is looking towards offering additional programming for the community for the upcoming year. To help with this task, we are asking you, the community members from the neighbourhoods of Queen Elizabeth, Exhibition, and West Haultain, to let us know what you would like to be offered. All upcoming winter programming is expected to run from January to March 2025.

If there are any programs that you would like to be offered in the community, please fill out the following form, or email us at programs@qexca.ca.