The province has strong cultural and personal ties to the Canadian Prairies and Ontario as well as to the West Coast of the United States and to Alaska and the Yukon.

The northern two-thirds of the province is largely unpopulated and undeveloped, and is mostly mountainous except east of the Rockies, where the Peace River District, in the northeast of the province contains BC's portion of the Canadian Prairies.

Beginning with Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy ( 1879 ) and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( 1875 – 1885 ) through Northern Ontario and the Canadian Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario manufacturing and industry flourished.

By 1920, the University of Manitoba was the largest university in the Canadian Prairies and the fifth largest in Canada.

The Canadian portion of the Plains is known as the Prairies.

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

* Canadian Prairies

The Canadian Prairies occupy vast areas of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

Every spring, storm chasers head to the Great Plains of the United States and the Canadian Prairies to explore the scientific aspects of storms and tornadoes through use of videotaping.

Both of these portray life on the Canadian Prairies where he grew up in the early part of the 20th century.

Baker ( 1999 ) uses the Red River Colony in the " District of Assiniboia " south of Lake Winnipeg, the only non-native settlement on the Canadian Prairies for most of the 19th century, as a site for critical exploration of the meaning of " law and order " on the Canadian frontier and for an investigation of the sources from which legal history might be rewritten as the history of legal culture.

* Cree mythology-A North American tribe most commonly found west of Ontario in the Canadian Prairies, although there are tribes located in the North-West Territories and Quebec.

Category: Films set in the Canadian Prairies

In North America, it is commonly seen in the Western United States and the Canadian Prairies.

The 1975 championship was held in Calgary and was the first Grey Cup played on the Canadian Prairies.

It is located in the Canadian Prairies and the resides in the aspen parkland ecoregion of the prairies.

" Gainer " is an anagram of Regina and the gopher, or more properly, Richardson's Ground Squirrel ( not a Gopher ) is a common animal on the Canadian Prairies.

* Pixelgrain: Mapping Transition in the Canadian Prairies

Category: Native birds of the Canadian Prairies

Their breeding habitat is the northern prairies of western Canada -( Canadian Prairies ), and the north central Great Plains, United States near marshes or ponds.

* Canadian Prairies

Category: Canadian Prairies

Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.

International trade makes up a large part of the Canadian economy, particularly of its natural resources.

In Europe, particularly Britain and Ireland, and then in the young United States and the Canadian colonies, inland canals preceded the development of railroads ( 1780-1840 ) during the earliest phase of the Industrial Revolution.

The CRTC contends that this low level of Canadian content, particularly when compared to the 35 % rule on local radio stations, was necessary because unlicenced U. S. receivers were already flooding into the country, so that enforcing a ban on these receivers would be nearly impossible ( see below ).

Property values are depressed, resulting in a smaller tax base for these three provinces, particularly when compared with the national average which benefits from central and western Canadian economic growth.

Canadian journalist and writer Frederick Arthur McKenzie wrote that in poorer areas, " there was a vast amount of sympathy with the rebels, particularly after the rebels were defeated.

In 1956, using the Constitutional taxation authority of the federal level of government, St-Laurent's government introduced the policy of " Equalization payments " which redistributes taxation revenues between provinces to assist the poorer provinces in delivering government programs and services, a move that has been considered a strong one in solidifying the Canadian federation, particularly with his home province of Québec.

Canadian stock exchanges have a particular focus on mining companies, particularly junior exploration companies through the TSX Venture Exchange ; Canadian companies raise capital on these exchanges and then invest the money in exploration globally.

Despite the absence of any mountainous terrain in the province, there are large areas of uplands, particularly within the Canadian Shield which traverses the province from northwest to southeast and also above the Niagara Escarpment which crosses the south.

Further, officials in the United Kingdom indicated that the British parliament was under no obligation to fulfill any request for legal changes made by Trudeau, particularly if Canadian convention was not being followed.

Canadian Aboriginals are more likely to be charged with crimes, particularly on reserves.

The falls, or more particularly, the tourist-supported complex near the Falls, was the setting of the short-lived Canadian television show Wonderfalls in early 2004.

The Canadian historian Michael H. Kater made a particularly strong case in his earlier writings that Orff collaborated with Nazi German authorities.

Canadian physicians have been heavily involved, particularly in developing appropriateness criteria to ensure timely access for necessary care.

The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.

On the left flank, the Canadian 2nd Division particularly with the efforts of the French Canadian 22nd Battalion ( the ' Van Doos ') and the 25th Battalion ( the Nova Scotia Rifles ) captured the village of Courcelette after heavy fighting, with some assistance from two tanks.

" The most disturbing thing about The Patriot is not just that German director Roland Emmerich ( director of Independence Day ) and his screenwriter Robert Rodat ( who was criticized for excluding British, Canadian ( Juno Beach ) and other Allied soldiers from his script for Saving Private Ryan ) depicted British troops as committing savage atrocities, but that those atrocities bear such a close resemblance to war crimes carried out by German troops — particularly the SS in World War II.

The network ’ s defenders note that the CBC ’ s mandate differs from private media ’ s, particularly in its focus on Canadian content ; that much of the public funding actually goes to the radio networks ; and that the CBC is responsible for the full cost of most of its prime-time programming, while private networks can fill up most of their prime-time schedules with American series acquired for a fraction of their production cost.

In 2004, retired Canadian Senator Jean-Robert Gauthier, a hard-of-hearing person, filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against Radio-Canada concerning captioning, particularly the absence of real-time captioning on newscasts and other live programming.

The southern part of the Canadian Cascades, particularly the Skagit Range, is geologically and topographically similar to the North Cascades, while the northern and northeastern parts are less glaciated and more plateau-like in character, resembling nearby areas of the Thompson Plateau.

The Weather Channel also shares radar and forecasts with The Weather Network, particularly for the Weather Channel's Canadian forecasts.

Rodeo, particularly popular today within the Canadian province of Alberta and throughout the western United States, is the official state sport of Wyoming, South Dakota, and Texas.