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Example sentences for: prairies

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The company kept upper Canadian farmers from migrating to the Prairies by depicting a sub-Arctic wasteland, but British surveyors found the valleys of the Saskatchewan, Assiniboine, and Red rivers to be fertile and ideal for agriculture.
Monuments and museums show how the buffalo-hunting Métis, the descendants of Indians and French fur traders, struggled in vain against Anglo farmers from Ontario, themselves subsequently relayed by waves of Eastern European immigrants brought in to exploit the grain wealth of the prairies.
Against all the experts’ advice, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s general manager, William Cornelius Van Horne, built tracks around Lake Superior and west across the Prairies to meet Andrew Onderdonk’s Chinese laborers working their way east through Kicking Horse Pass in the Rockies.
When I grew up, on the Canadian Prairies, my teachers were mostly WASP and had a hard time spelling or pronouncing my name.
Driving east from Vancouver on the Trans-Canada Highway and following the Fraser River north to its tributary, the Thompson, you are backtracking along the great exploration route traced by intrepid fur traders from the prairies to the Pacific.