Talk:Canadian Prairies

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wrong map

The article currently has a political map of the three prairie provinces. But this article is on the geological area, not the political area. And the map should reflect that. -- Geo Swan 23:21, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

True, this needs some careful disambiguation. Kevlar67 03:42, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References

There do not appear to be any references credited for the production of this article. Is this an oversight? (Stormbay 03:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC))[reply]

It's likely an oversight, but I will add refs for some germane points shortly. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 04:02, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Geological history

I think adding the geological history of the plains would be beneficial. I don't know it at all, just thought it would add something to the article that most other canadian geographical areas' articles have. Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.92.179 (talk) 03:39, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History section

I'm going to start a history section here to combine some of the duplication that has shown up on History of Alberta, History of Saskatchewan, and History of Manitoba. I want to cover everything that happened before those provinces cam into being (in a general sense) and leave the specifics up to those individial artcles, as well as Rupert's Land, North-Western Territory, and History of Northwest Territories. Hopefully we will cover the topic well enough that it can eventually be split off into its own article called History of the Canadian Northwest or something similar. Kevlar67 (talk) 23:15, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photo please

As a European, I am unfamiliar with what a Canadian Prairie looks like. This article would benefit greatly from a photo of a prairie that typifies the subject please, if such a thing is possible. Thanks. Andrew Oakley (talk) 15:08, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"think flat" e.g. Ukraine, Byelorussia, though the land allotments look different; there are various public domain aerial shots out there, I'll see what I can dig up.Skookum1 (talk) 18:22, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Farming

"The region known as Palliser's Triangle, also classified as the Prairies ecozone, is so arid that farming has never been successful there without government help and irrigation."

What's all this about? No Citation either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.161.213.7 (talk) 07:46, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Wpg & s'toon skylines to population chart

The census metropolitan areas in the Canadian Prairies chart has a picture of both Edmonton & Calgary but not of Winnipeg nor Saskatoon. I have added Winnipeg and Saskatoon skyline pictures but they should probably be in the chart as Edmonton and Calgary already are. I don't know how to so if someone who knows how to add them then that would be great.

--74.216.19.16 (talk) 20:46, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The template also does not have a photo of Regina yet one of Regina was not added.

Notwithstanding, looking at the template, it doesn't appear there is much room to add more photos beyond the existing two. I also notice this article is the only location in which this template is in use. Makes me think that a table embedded within the article would better than having a separate template for use only on this article.

I'm going to experiment with the template for now by removing the Calgary and Edmonton photos. Afterwards, I may create a table within this article to replace the template and then nominate the template for deletion. Hwy43 (talk) 04:33, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Growing Season

Added Grand Prairie for data about the Peace River Country and, have added the average Growing season from 1981-2010 Canadian Climate Normals.To easily access them View Data Graph>Display all data.Kyle 1278 01:05, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

British Columbia

Unless there is a source that can be added with regard to prairie in British Columbia I will remove this from the lead as it is misrepresenting boreal plains as a prairie biome. I could be wrong but unless a source is added I do not believe the statement to be true. Krazytea(talk) 05:46, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Don't quite understand the issue. A quick gander using Google Earth reveals that the prairie landscape in northwest Alberta's Peace Country doesn't end at the provincial border. It extends into northeast British Columbia from south of Dawson Creek to north of Fort St. John with farmland reaching west to the vicinities of Chetwynd and Hudson's Hope. It should be easy to find a source that acknowledges these realities.

This map shows how the Prairie Region extends into northeast BC generally covering the area I just described above. From a slightly different perspective there is what is called the Central Plains ecozone.

So what I am seeing, from the natural definition perspective, is the Canadian Prairies generally comprises the boreal plains in addition to the parkland prairies and grassland prairies. Hwy43 (talk) 07:08, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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References

Added in many citations, reworded the Main climates section and edited the first intro paragraph for better fluency — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sidneysmiith (talk • contribs) 18:07, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

added in citations into second intro paragraph, rewrote the economy section and edited the physical geography section to provide clarity. Schneidl12 (talk) 04:14, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization of "prairie provinces"?

This article in some places writes "prairie provinces" with lower-case initials and in some others, "Prairie Provinces" with capitals. Shouldn't something be decided? 2601:449:8302:1080:0:0:0:AB7C (talk) 21:34, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]