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The article offers information on the source, distribution, and classification of the vertisolic soils in Canada. It says that Canadian vertisolic soils relate to the fine-textured glaciolacustrine plains of Prairie ecozone and are formed when parent material have over 60% of clay content. It says that vertisolic soil are not recognized in soils in east Manitoba due to lack of clay swelling in central Canada. Meanwhile, versitolic soil subgroups include orthic, gleyed, and gleysolic.