(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2002-02) Arcus, Peter; Parsons, Graham
The three Prairie provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta1 have been in a state of
restructuring and change since settlement by
European immigrants in the latter half of the 19th and
the early part of the 20th centuries. From the 1880s
through to the Second World War, the Prairies
developed a well-earned reputation as “the breadbasket
of the world”. Settlements, road and rail
transportation, government institutions, research and
legislation, were all created around the needs of the
export grain economy.
