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Canadian Prairies

The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces, namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.[2] These provinces are partially covered by grasslands, plains, and lowlands, mostly in the southern regions. The northernmost reaches of the Canadian Prairies are less dense in population, marked by forests and more variable topography.[3] If the region is defined to include areas only covered by prairie land, the corresponding region is known as the Interior Plains.[4] Physical or ecological aspects of the Canadian Prairies extend to northeastern British Columbia, but that area is not included in political use of the term.[5]

"The Prairies" redirects here. For other uses, see Prairie (disambiguation).

Canadian Prairies
Prairies canadiennes (French)

1,780,650.6 km2 (687,513.0 sq mi)[1]

3,747 m (12,293 ft)

The prairies in Canada are a temperate grassland and shrubland biome within the prairie ecoregion of Canada that consists of northern mixed grasslands in Alberta, Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, as well as northern short grasslands in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan.[6] The Prairies Ecozone of Canada includes the northern tall grasslands in southern Manitoba and Aspen parkland, which covers central Alberta, central Saskatchewan, and southern Manitoba.[7] The Prairie starts from north of Edmonton and it covers the three provinces in a southward-slanting line east to the Manitoba–Minnesota border.[8] Alberta has the most land classified as prairie, while Manitoba has the least, as the boreal forest begins more southerly in Manitoba than in Alberta.[9]

Dominion Land Survey

High Plains (United States)

List of regions of Canada

Llano Estacado

Natural Resources Acts

Shortgrass prairie

Ecozones of Canada

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Danysk, Cecilia. Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880–1930. (1995). 231 pp.

Emery, George. The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896–1914. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 2001. 259 pp.

Archived 2017-01-31 at the Wayback Machine 1071 pp in print edition

The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan: A Living Legacy. U. of Regina Canadian Plains Research Center, 2005. online

Fairbanks, C. and S.B. Sundberg. Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier. (1983)

Friesen, Gerald (1987), , University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-0-8020-6648-0

The Canadian prairies: a history

Hodgson, Heather, ed. Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004. 247 pp.

Jones, David C. Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt. (1987) 316 pp.

Keahey, Deborah. Making It Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature. (1998). 178 pp.

Canadian Slavonic Papers 60, no. 1-2 (2018)

Kononenko, Natalie "Vernacular religion on the prairies: negotiating a place for the unquiet dead,"

Langford, N. "Childbirth on the Canadian Prairies 1880-1930." Journal of Historical Sociology, 1995. Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 278–302.

Langford, Nanci Louise. "First Generation and Lasting Impressions: The Gendered Identities of Prairie Homestead Women." PhD dissertation U. of Alberta 1994. 229 pp. DAI 1995 56(4): 1544-A. DANN95214 Fulltext:

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Laycock, David. Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies, 1910 to 1945. (1990). 369 pp.

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online edition

Norrie, K. H. "The Rate of Settlement of the Canadian Prairies, 1870–1911", Journal of Economic History, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 410–427 ; statistical models

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Rollings-Magnusson, Sandra. "Canada's Most Wanted: Pioneer Women on the Western Prairies". Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 2000 37(2): 223–238.  0008-4948 Fulltext: Ebsco

ISSN

Swyripa, Frances. Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies (University of Manitoba Press, 2010) 296 pp.  978-0-88755-720-0.

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Thompson, John Herd. Forging the Prairie West (1998).

Wardhaugh, Robert A. Mackenzie King and the Prairie West (2000). 328 pp.

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