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3 unusual facts about Canadian Prairies


Canadian Prairies

Corner Gas – TV show featuring the sparseness of the plains as a major theme

Cephus cinctus

It is known as a chronic pest in Northern Great Plains of the USA and also an important pest of wheat in the Canadian Prairies.

Royal Hudson

It was damaged in a derailment outside of Vancouver in 1956, but by 1957 it had been refurbished and was transferred to Winnipeg for prairie service.


Chernozem

There are two "Chernozem belts" in the world: from eastern Croatia (Slavonia), along the Danube (northern Serbia, northern Bulgaria (Danubian Plain) and southern Romania (Wallachian Plain)), to northeast Ukraine across the Black Earth Region and southern Russia into Siberia, and the other in the Canadian Prairies.

History of the Franco-Americans

Places where the Canadian immigrants emigrated to the most were places including New England in the US, Ontario and the Canadian Prairies in Canada.

Incident at Hawk's Hill

Incident at Hawk's Hill opens in 1870, on Hawk's Hill, the farm of William and Esther MacDonald, set in the Canadian Prairies about twenty miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Nordicity

Using the VAPO, most of Canada outside the Southern Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, the Prairies, the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, and most of the Maritimes exhibits some degree of nordicity.


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