Prairie Provinces

Brief History

• Early 19th century- colonize the Prairie Provinces and northern Canada
• 1820- the colony's seed grain was destroyed
• 1868- Red Fire wheat debuted in Manitoba
• 1870- Manitoba joins the Confederation
• 1884- Canadian Pacific Railway finished
• 1905- Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Confederation
• 1906- census
• 1916- census
• July 1st, 1982- Independence Day!

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National Parks:

Prairie Provinces

*along with national

parks, each province

has its own several

provincial parks and

forestlands.

Manitoba:

• Riding Mt. Nat'n Park

Saskatchewan:

• Prince Albert Nat'n Park
• Grasslands Nat'n Park

Alberta:

• Jasper Nat'n Park
• Banff Nat'n Park
• Waterton Lakes Nat'n Park
• Mt. Revelstoke Nat'n Park

Famous People

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Natural Resources

Endangered Animals:

• Baird's Sparrow
• Burrowing Owl
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Canada Warbler
• Gold-edged gem
• Dusky Dune moth
• Chestnut-collared longspur
• Ivory Gull
• Perigrine Falcon

and many more...

Alberta, Manitoba,Saskatchewan

• fishing
• forestry
• hydroelectricity
• gypsum
• salt
• limestone
• fresh water
• wheat
• dairy
• vegetables
• natural gas

• petroleum
• natural gas
• coal
• crude oil
• uranium
• copper
• zinc
• gold
• silver
• potash

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Attractions:

Alberta-

• Dinosaur Provincial Park
• West Edmonton Mall!

Saskatchewan-

• Cypress Hills
• Moose Jaw, home to Canada's largest military jet-training base and the Canadian Snowbirds
• Regina, Canadian Mounties training school
• Little Manitou Lake

Manitoba-

• Royal Canadian Mint
• the windiest corner in Canada
• Longitudinal Centre of Canada

By: Jessica EBE

Physical Characteristics

These three provinces all have the Great Plains and the Canadian Shield in them. Other physical characteristics are...

This area, or the Prairie Provinces, have clear, cool lakes, lazy rivers, and eroded sand and rock formations in the badlands that they have. Sand dunes are also found along the broad and semiarid plains.

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Manitoba:

• huge and deep lakes

Saskatchewan:

• rolling fields of wheat

Alberta:

• Rocky Mountains

Alberta:

Michael J. Fox- Alberta

Bachman-Turner Overdrive- Manitoba

Oliva Gerula "The Predator"- Manitoba

Evangeline Lilly- Saskatchewan

Art Linkletter- Saskatchewan

Leslie Nielson- Saskatchewan

William Shatner-Vancouver- I just wanted to put that in there

• Alberta is nicknamed the Princess Province after a daughter of Queen Victoria(Britain), princess Louise Caroline Alberta
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a high cliff in the foothills of the Rockies that Indian used to drive buffalo off of and collect their carcasses below. Now it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• In 1967, to celebrate Canada's 100th anniversary, the residents of St. Paul built the world's first UFO landing pad
• Banff Nat'n Park was Canada's first national park

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Economic Activities

Manitoba:

• Manitoba gets its name from the cree indian words "manitou bou" meaning the narrows of the Great Spirits. It refers to a place in Lake Manitou where the waves make a crashing sound thought to come from the Great Spirit.
• Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a real black bear named Winnie after the city Winnipeg.
• The Winnipeg falcolns won the first ever Olympic gold medal in hockey in 1920
• Manitoba is home to one of the largest wolf populations in the world

• The Prairie Provinces provides most of Canada's grain and cattle
• The major agricultural crop is wheat
• The grain is transported to the Pacific Ocean, the Great Lakes, or Hudson Bay by railway
• Tourism is important to the region's parks
• The Rockies in western Alberta has a beautiful view- tourism
• The discovery of oil in the region led to great wealth
• The oil industry had a big affect on the growth of cities like Calgary and Edmonton

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Saskatchewan:

• Saskatchewan gets its name from the cree indian word "kisiskatchewan" meaning the river that flows swiftly
• curling was named the province's official sport in 2001
• Saskatchewan has more miles of road than any other province in Canada
• it has more golf courses per capita than any other place in the world

Land Area

Alberta: 661,000 square km

Manitoba: 649,947 square km

Saskatchewan: 651,036 square km

All: 1,961,983 square km

Iowa's land area fits into this place's area about 13.5 times

Population

Major Cities

Alberta:

• Edmonton - capital
• Calgary

Manitoba:

• Winnipeg- capital

Saskatchewan:

• Regina- capital
• Saskatoon

Alberta: 3,645,257 people

Manitoba: 1,208,268 people

Saskatchewan: 1,033,381 people

All: 5,886,906 people

Iowa's population fits into this area about 2 times