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Transforming the Prairies proposes a new understanding of Canada's Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), complicating common views of the agency as a model of effective government environmental management. Between 1935 and 2009, the PFRA promoted agricultural rehabilitation in and beyond the Canadian Prairies with mixed and equivocal results. The promotion of strip farming as a soil conservation technique, for example, left crops susceptible to sawfly infestations. The PFRA's involvement in irrigation development in Ghana increased the local population's vulnerability to various illnesses. And PFRA infrastructure construction intended to serve the public good failed to account for the interests of affected Indigenous peoples. The PFRA is revealed as being a high modernist state agency that produced varied environmental outcomes and that contributed to consolidating colonialism and racism. This investigation affirms the importance of engaging historical perspectives to help ensure that contemporary environmental management efforts support more just and sustainable futures.

Au cours de la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle, un foisonnement remarquable d'oeuvres textiles novatrices s'est produit dans les Prairies canadiennes. Mêlant traditions artisanales, mouvements de l'art moderne et moderniste et approches théoriques, un groupe de créateurs d'origines diverses ouvrent alors un magnifique chapitre de l'art du textile. Prairies entrelacées, qui réunit certains des chercheurs les plus importants dans le domaine de l'artisanat au Canada, étudie les oeuvres créées par quarante-huit artistes entre les années 1960 et 2000. Ayant retrouvé et catalogué cette histoire oubliée, cet ouvrage s'intéresse tant aux artistes de la fibre qu'aux divers centres d'études et de production textile, s'attardant en particulier aux contextes de création de ces oeuvres. Chercheurs autochtones, experts des techniques textiles et des Prairies canadiennes proposent une plongée fascinante dans un mouvement artistique insuffisamment documenté jusqu'à présent. Avec plus de cent cinquante magnifiques illustrations couleurs d'oeuvres textiles, dont un grand nombre d'entre elles n'ayant jamais été photographié, Prairies entrelacées ouvre une fenêtre sur un mouvement fascinant qui, n'ayant jamais reçu l'attention qu'il mérite, encourage la recherche dans cette riche période de l'histoire de l'art au Canada. Poursuivant le succès de l'exposition itinérante du même nom, l'ouvrage Prairies entrelacées est une collaboration entre les Nickle Galleries de l'Université de Calgary (Alberta) et la MacKenzie Art Gallery de Regina (Saskatchewan).

Grasslands are among the richest, most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet, and they are crucial in the fight against climate change. Unfortunately, since 1970 Canada has lost more than 40 percent of its grasslands, and less than 15 percent of Saskatchewan's grasslands exist today. The province has some of the highest CO2 and methane emissions per capita and virtually no environmental regulations. How did we allow the grasslands to become one of the most endangered ecosystems on Earth? In some sense, the story of Saskatchewan fits rather neatly into the larger story of Western Canada, where politicians often care more about extraction and growing the economy while destroying the very things the economy depends on. But that isn't the whole story. Much like Canada's universal health care, Saskatchewan is also the birthplace of some of the first provincial and national conservation laws, and home to an unsung and unlikely champion for the environment: a farmer with a twelfth-grade education and a really old van… In Protecting the Prairies, Andrea Olive provides a history of wildlife and land conservation in Saskatchewan told through the life story of environmentalist, naturalist, farmer, and former Minister of Environment and Resource Management Lorne Scott. This is a book that challenges and inspires us to be stewards of the environment in our own backyards and communities, and above all, to never be complacent when it comes to protecting the natural world.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

The United States was once abundant with prairies. Some have been converted to farmland, but other prairies still thrive. Students will learn how a prairie changes through the seasons, what animals live on prairies, and how people are working to restore prairie land.

The Canadian Prairie teems with life - not all of it of this world. Get acquainted with baby dragons, killer insects, faery kings, infernal entities and more, as 19 authors let the Manitoban landscape inspire weird and wondrous tales.You thought the Prairies were flat, plain, and boring.You were wrong.

This book is a comprehensive volume that brings together vast knowledge about agricultural prairies in one place, providing concise information and providing concise descriptions of natural resources and their influence on crop productivity. It provides detailed descriptions about natural settings as well as lucid discussions on soil fertility and

To Midwesterners tucked into small towns or farms early in the twentieth century, the landscape of the American heartland reached the horizon—and then imagination had to provide what lay beyond. But when aviation took off and scenes of the Midwest were no longer earthbound, the Midwestern landscape was transformed and with it, Jason Weems suggests in this book, the very idea of the Midwest itself.Barnstorming the Prairies offers a panoramic vista of the transformative nature and power of the aerial vision that remade the Midwest in the wake of the airplane. This new perspective from above enabled Americans to conceptualize the region as something other than isolated and unchanging, and to see it instead as a dynamic space where people worked to harmonize the core traditions of America's agrarian character with the more abstract forms of twentieth-century modernity. In the maps and aerial survey photography of the Midwest, as well as the painting, cinema, animation, and suburban landscapes that arose through flight, Weems also finds a different and provocative view of modernity in the making. In representations of the Midwest, from Grant Wood's iconic images to the Prairie style of Frank Lloyd Wright to the design of greenbelt suburbs, Weems reveals aerial vision's fundamental contribution to regional identity—to Midwesternness as we understand it.Reading comparatively across these images, Weems explores how the cognitive and perceptual practices of aerial vision helped to resymbolize the Midwestern landscape amid the technological change and social uncertainty of the early twentieth century.

This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman's wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of a dangerous voyage out from France, a famous children's writer writes home about the fun of canoeing, and a German general's wife describes habitant customs. All demonstrate how women's experiences not only shared, but helped shape this new country.

Au cours de la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle, un foisonnement remarquable d’oeuvres textiles novatrices s’est produit dans les Prairies canadiennes. Mêlant traditions artisanales, mouvements de l’art moderne et moderniste et approches théoriques, un groupe de créateurs d’origines diverses ouvrent alors un magnifique chapitre de l’art du textile. Prairies entrelacées, qui réunit certains des chercheurs les plus importants dans le domaine de l’artisanat au Canada, étudie les oeuvres créées par quarante-huit artistes entre les années 1960 et 2000. Ayant retrouvé et catalogué cette histoire oubliée, cet ouvrage s’intéresse tant aux artistes de la fibre qu’aux divers centres d’études et de production textile, s’attardant en particulier aux contextes de création de ces oeuvres. Chercheurs autochtones, experts des techniques textiles et des Prairies canadiennes proposent une plongée fascinante dans un mouvement artistique insuffisamment documenté jusqu’à présent. Avec plus de cent cinquante magnifiques illustrations couleurs d’oeuvres textiles, dont un grand nombre d’entre elles n’ayant jamais été photographié, Prairies entrelacées ouvre une fenêtre sur un mouvement fascinant qui, n’ayant jamais reçu l’attention qu’il mérite, encourage la recherche dans cette riche période de l’histoire de l’art au Canada. Poursuivant le succès de l’exposition itinérante du même nom, l’ouvrage Prairies entrelacées est une collaboration entre les Nickle Galleries de l’Université de Calgary (Alberta) et la MacKenzie Art Gallery de Regina (Saskatchewan).

In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the scene. In Rediscovering the Prairies, Norman Henderson, a leading scholar of the world's great temperate grasslands, revives the earlier modes of prairie travel. He journeys along 325 kilometres of Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley by dog and travois (the wooden rack pulled by dogs and horses used by First Nations to transport belongings), then by canoe, and finally by horse and travois. Henderson's often humourous descriptions of his attempts to find and train a dog and a horse highlight the difficulties involved in recreating traditional travel methods. Henderson interweaves his own adventures with the exploits of earlier travellers, such as La Vérendrye, Alexander Henry and Peter Fidler, and the experiences of fur traders and others who struggled across this strange and forbidding landscape. His captivating account will foster a better appreciation for, and a deeper understanding of, the natural and human history of the Canadian prairies.

Prairies and Plains is an analysis of the reference sources-encyclopedias, bibliographies, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries-that readers and researchers will need to prepare class papers, resolve queries, build collections and develop strategies for investigating questions regarding the history and culture of the Prairies and Plains region.

L'adolescence n'est facile pour personne. On se cherche une identité à travers les nouvelles expériences, les jobines et les premières amours. Mais Mariana a un avantage sur les autres, elle sait déjà quoi faire de sa vie : si elle ne meurt pas - d'ennui dans un trop long trajet d'autobus ou d'un coup de couteau dans une bagarre -, avec son talent naturel, elle sera joueuse de soccer professionnelle! Rivière-des-Prairies, c'est l'intensité de l'adolescence combinée à celle de Mariana. Tenez-vous bien : ça va chauffer.

While Canada is home to one of the largest Ukrainian diasporas in the world, little is known about the life and culture of Ukrainians living in the country's rural areas and their impact on Canadian traditions.Drawing on more than ten years of interviews and fieldwork, Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies describes the culture of Ukrainian Canadians living in the Prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Despite powerful pressure to assimilate, these Ukrainians have managed both to preserve their sense of themselves as Ukrainian and to develop a culture sensitive to the realities of Prairie life, creating their own uniquely Ukrainian Canadian traditions. The Ukrainian church, an iconic though now rapidly disappearing feature of the Prairie landscape, takes centre stage as an instrument for the retention of Ukrainian identity and the development of a new culture. Natalie Kononenko explores the cultural elements of Ukrainian Canadian ritual practice, with an emphasis on family traditions surrounding marriage, birth, death, and religious holidays.Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies gives voice to a group of everyday people who are too often overlooked, highlighting their accomplishments and their contributions to Canadian life.

Comment se reconstruire après la mort de l'être aimé?Un banal accident de la route, et Carole, si jeune, si fraîche, voit sa vie dévastée. Après sa longue convalescence, elle décide de retourner vivre dans la maison qu'ils venaient d'acheter, Simon et elle, dans un village perdu du Condroz. La jeune femme va alors arpenter le paysage jusqu'à s'y fondre et y retrouver d'infimes traces de sens. Et, entourée de la sollicitude de la communauté villageoise, laisser le temps opérer son œuvre d'alchimiste.Cet ouvrage est un hymne à la vie, une célébration de l'absent, un chant d'amour et de renaissance au sein d'une nature extraordinairement ordinaire.EXTRAITIl neigeait et les flocons tourbillonnaient dans la bise. Il neigeait comme un jour d'enterrement, un jour d'ensevelissement, et la neige mangeait tout, le paysage, la petite route, les toits des maisons du village qui n'apparaissait que vaguement dans la tourmente. Il neigeait, et la neige engloutissait le cœur de Carole, l'enserrait, le glaçait. La légèreté des flocons immaculés n'arrivait pas à adoucir les arêtes de sa croix. Était-ce un bon jour pour revenir ici, était-ce un bon jour pour prendre la route, monter le chemin de terre, revoir la maison?Il faut s'occuper des chevaux… C'est la première chose qu'elle avait dite en sortant des brumes de l'inconscience. Pourquoi avait-elle d'abord pensé aux chevaux, et pas à lui?Parce qu'elle savait déjà, sans doute, parce qu'une part obscure d'elle-même savait ce que sa raison ne connaissait pas encore, et que cette vérité était impossible à entendre résonner dans la chambre blanche. Plus tard, oui, plus tard, il serait bien temps de mettre des mots sur les choses, de dire tout haut l'indicible, d'en parler. Peut-être.À PROPOS DE L'AUTEURIsabelle Kerstenne est née à Liège et vit actuellement dans un petit village du Condroz belge. Depuis de nombreuses années, elle parcourt les chemins de l'écriture (notamment l'animationd'ateliers d'écriture).

Follow the evolution of the rail legacy of the Canadian Prairies from the arrival of the first engine on a barge to today's realities. Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book looks at the arrival of European settlers before the railway and examines how they coped by using ferry services on the Assiniboine and North Saskatchewan Rivers. The work then follows the building of the railways, the rivalries of their owners, and the unusual irrigation works of Canadian Pacific Railway. The towns were nearly all the creation of the railways from their layout to their often unusual names.Eventually, the rail lines declined, though many are experiencing a limited revival. Learn what the heritage lover can still see of the Prairies'railway legacy, including existing rail operations and the stories the railways brought with them. Many landmarks lie vacant, including ghost towns and elevators, while many others survive as museums or interpretative sites.

Tout est prêt pour la tournée. On est en 1972, et la troupe des Poules des prairies est sur son départ : deux semaines de danse en Europe, festivals et événements culturels autochtones au menu. Mais voilà que l'ensemble des danseurs est victime d'une indigestion. Et c'est John Greyeyes, un cowboy solitaire qui n'a pas dansé depuis des lustres, qu'on catapulte à la direction d'une toute nouvelle bande de danseurs substituts. Un groupe expérimenté? Malheureusement non. Il y a d'abord cette femme d'âge moyen à l'arthrite prononcée; il y a également sa nièce de dix-neuf ans, bien plus intéressée par le flirt que par les pow-wow; et que dire de cet homme mystérieux, venu droit des États-Unis, avec son nom bizarre et son attitude arrogante? Tandis que la troupe saute d'une destination à l'autre, rien ne se déroule comme prévu, et la tournée se transforme vite en un délirant vaudeville où chacun et chacune en prendra pour son rhume. Dans Les Poules des prairies partent en tournée, Dawn Dumont nous revient avec son humour décapant et son incroyable sens du punch et de la critique sociale pour nous offrir un roman aussi hilarant qu'émouvant.

Dans un contexte mondial qui fragilise les productions d'herbivores des pays européens, cet ouvrage interdisciplinaire, coordonné par l'Académie d'Agriculture de France, montre la réalité et l'importance de la multifonctionnalité des prairies et en soulève les enjeux politiques. Ainsi les prairies contribuent-elles très fortement à la préservation des sols, de la biodiversité, de la qualité des eaux et des paysages, à la régulation des régimes hydriques mais aussi aux qualités des produits laitiers et carnés des herbivores. Dans cet ouvrage, destiné à un large public de décideurs, d'acteurs du développement territorial et agricole, d'étudiants et enseignants, les auteurs mettent en évidence les performances écologiques et économiques des systèmes herbagers et plaident pour une démarcation de la qualité des produits par des signes officiels. Ils soulignent l'importance des politiques publiques territoriales de soutien pour assurer la viabilité économique des exploitations d'élevage d'herbivores ; celles-ci doivent reconnaître et rémunérer les services sociétaux rendus par ces systèmes de production.

A full-colour field guide for the curious amateur naturalist, traveller, or hiker who wishes to learn to identify the flowering plants that may be encountered while in the outdoors on the Canadian Prairies during the usual blooming season.Neil Jennings's new series of colourful and easy-to-use wildflower guides introduces amateur naturalists to some of the more commonly found wildflowers in the Canadian Prairies. Along with hundreds of colour photos and informative descriptions containing both common and scientific flower names, the blossoms profiled are arranged by their predominant colour, and the books themselves are designed to be small and lightweight enough to encourage the user to take them into the field.Whether for hiking, walking, camping, or adventuring in the great outdoors, these charming books are packed with useful information for anyone interested in enhancing their enjoyment of the natural world by learning about the flora encountered. Indeed, the ability to make an accurate identification of various wild plants is satisfying in and of itself, and the user will also be better equipped to avoid certain plants that should not be tampered with owing to their toxicity, scarcity, or sharp spines or edges.

Enfin, un livre sur les papillons des prairies spécialement conçu pour les enfants! Agrémenté de photographies et d'illustrations humoristiques en pleine couleur, ce livre présente aux jeunes dix-huit espèces de papillons que l'on retrouve au Manitoba et en Saskatchewan. Cette œuvre bien documentée décrit les faits biologiques, les modes de vie et les particularités les plus captivantes de chaque papillon, et témoigne d'une grande sensibilité envers la fragilité et l'importance de ces espèces régionales.

The Dog Crusoe and His Master A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies by R. M. Ballantyne Who doesn't like a story that involves a great dog and his young master and friends? In this book you will share their action packed journey and adventures as they wander through the Western prairies with a mission to bring peace between the white population and the assorted Indian tribes. They face many perils and become heroes many times over. (Goodreads)

What's the Difference Between Forests and Prairies? is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.1 and Literacy.L.3.1d. Full-page color photographs paired with narrative nonfiction text explain differences between forests and prairies. This book should be paired with “Mountains and Valleys: What's the Difference?'(9781477724637) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Three local experts reveal their favorite places to watch birds in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. In Best Places to Bird in the Prairies, three of Canada's top birders reveal their favorite destinations for spotting local birds in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. They highlight thirty-six highly recommended sites, each of which has been expertly selected for the unique species that reside there. With exclusive lists of specialty birds, splendid color photography, and plenty of insider tips for finding and identifying birdlife year-round, the book is accessible and easy-to-use—an indispensable resource that will inspire both novice and seasoned birders to put on their walking shoes, grab their binoculars, and start exploring. The destinations they feature are as varied as the birds that are found there, ranging from rural to urban, easily accessible to remote. The authors provide clear maps, detailed directions, and alternative routes wherever possible to ensure the experience is satisfying for first-time visitors and experienced birders alike.

Always go for more. Russ doesn't want more. He has the perfect life planned. Even though he's called a dummy most days, he knows he'll go to college, marry Isabelle, and farm with his father and brothers. Yup, perfect. All that changes in June 1928, the night his brother is kicked out of the house and Isabelle is snatched by a bunch of men dressed like ghosts. Russ swore to protect Sacred Land but promises made to his pa when life was great are not so easy to keep after he finds himself plagued by a curse. Who are the men terrorising the Cursed Lands and trying to burn his gal for being a witch? His father thinks they're acting out to scare them off the land, a hate group perhaps? His brother wonders if they're wanting a sacred plant that grows in the tunnels. His ma knows of other secrets haunting them... While those things might be true, his ghostly grandpa, Silver, shows Russ something he can't ignore; a curse summoned years ago that will suck them all into the earth. With lingering spirits, a troubled girl shadowing his destiny, dark rituals, a love potion, cursed men plaguing their lands, a prison break that takes him away from home when his wife needs him the most, and the earth itself trying to suck them in, Cursed on the Prairies is a Sacred Land Story that shows that the prairies are a place full of secrets that even a ghost can't bury. An emotional journey into an alternate history with paranormal and romantic elements that proves we can't escape our destinies, Cursed on the Prairies is the third of Tanya's Sacred Land Stories, the culmination of a trans-generational timeline that started in Legends on the Prairies and continued in Ghosts on the Prairies.

Guide pédagogique disponible Prix Manuelas-Dias, Finaliste 2005 Prix Margaret-McWilliams, Lauréat 2005 Louis, fils des Prairies raconte l'histoire de l'enfance de Louis Riel à la Rivière- rouge, jusqu'à l'arrivée de l'adolescent à Montréal. À travers les yeux de Louis nous découvrons les rigueurs de la vie à la colonie, sommes témoins de l'inondation de 1852, participons aux grandes chasses aux bisons, devenons espiègles et faisons le long voyage vers Montréal. Ce roman, plein d'entrain, donne beaucoup d'informations sur la vie des Prairies au 19e siècle.

What if someone believed that you were a hero from a legend? “Don't you believe in legends?” Such a simple question, yet what Sacri really wants Alex to believe is that he is the hero from her legends. A hero meant to save land sacred to her tribe. Alex is a lot of things. He's a painter, a sculptor, and a dreamer. He was just fired from a good job, grieves for a woman he hoped to marry, and is known as the local drunk. He's terrified of fire, of losing his friend, and of being alone. He is a lot of things, but hero isn't one of them. Travelling across the country in 1892 to settle land on an unexplored part of the prairies, he hopes to find himself, to find a reason for his pitiful existence, and to have one last adventure with his dying friend. What he actually finds in the heart of the lonesome prairies is Sacri, defending land with her very soul. She believes he is the Man of Legends sent to save Sacred Land. Her determination entrances him. Despite everything, Alex finds himself praying to a God that he thought had abandoned him, in the hope that, just maybe, there is some truth to Sacri's stories. To add to Alex's unease is the certainty that Sacri's brother, often merely glimpsed as a silver shadow riding his horse across the horizon, will happily kill Alex if he turns out not to be the man that Sacri thinks he is. Legends on the Prairies, a Sacred Land Story is the prequel to Ghosts on the Prairies. Alternate history with paranormal and romantic elements, it is a story about growth, friendship, love, and the importance of believing in ourselves.