Manitoba Travel Guide
The provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan , a vast tract
bounded by the Ontario border to the east and the Rocky Mountains in Alberta to the west,
together comprise a region commonly called "the prairies". In fact, flat
treeless plains are confined to the southern part of central Canada and even then
they are broken up by the occasional river valley and range of low-lying hills, which
gradually raise the elevation from sea level at Hudson Bay to nearly 1200m near the
Rockies. Furthermore, the plains themselves are divided into two broad geographical areas:
the semi-arid short grasslands that border the United States in Alberta and
Saskatchewan, and the wheat-growing belt , a crescent-shaped expanse to the north
of the grasslands. In turn, this wheat belt borders the low hills, mixed farms and
sporadic forests of the aspen parkland , a transitional zone between the plains and
the boreal forest , whose trees, rocky outcrops, rivers and myriad lakes cover well
over half of the entire central region, stretching to the Northwest Territories in
Saskatchewan and Alberta and as far as the treeless tundra beside Hudson Bay in
Manitoba, and in the new territory of Nunavut.
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