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Chapters: Red Coat Trail, Northern Woods and Water Route, Fauna of Saskatchewan, Aspen Parkland, Canadian Prairies, Taiga Shield Ecozone, Boreal Plains Ecozone, Prairie Pothole Region, Methye Portage, Carlton Trail, Prairies Ecozone, Palliser's Triangle, Nisbet Provincial Forest, Carlton Trail Region, Saskatchewan River Forks, East Central, Saskatchewan, Fort à La Corne Provincial Forest. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 102. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Red Coat Trail is a 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) route that approximates the path taken in 1874 by the North-West Mounted Police in their quest to bring law and order to the Canadian West. A number of highways in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta roughly follow the original route. In Alberta, the trail follows Highways 3, 4, 61, 889, and 501. In Saskatchewan, Highway 13 is designated as Red Coat Trail. The travel corridor from the ManitobaSaskatchewan border to Winnipeg follows Manitoba PTH 2. Near Fort MacLeod, the traffic volume is between 4,200 and 7,900 vehicles per day (vpd) according to the 2007 Average Annual Daily Traffic report which is quite consistent for the decade. The area is a short grass prairie ecosystem with black soils and is conducive to grain growing. Located at the junction of Hwy 2 and the Red Coat Trail, Fort Macleod currently has a population of over 3,000 residents Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a major attraction 20 miles (32 km) northwest of town. Between Fort Macleod, and Lethbridge, the Red Coat Trail runs concurrent with the Crowsnest Highway traveling through the Porcupine Hills, the Coyote Flats, and a ghost town named Pearce only marked by a railway crossing and a few farms. D.M. Wilson says it best, "beneath the Highway's pavement is perhaps 50 meters (164 ft) of glacial till ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12618367 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Geographer, published by Canadian Association of Geographers on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 8461 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Durant les dernieres vingt annees, les cultures speciales ont passd d'etre peu significatives a devenir importantes dans l'agriculture du Saskatchewan. Beaucoup de facteurs en correlation ont contribue a ce changement. Ces facteurs sont analyses en utilisant un modele de systme d'approvisionnement qui implique les intrants, les facteurs de production au niveau de la ferme, la recherche et la liaison de cette recherche aux fermiers, les engagements par contrat, le transport et le traitement, et l'exploitation des marches en cultures speciales. La production des cultures speciales, particulierement les trois plantes a gousses les plus dominantes, soit les pois secs, les lentilles et les pois chiches, resulte en des reductions des couts des intrants. Les cultures speciales se sont montrees adaptees pour des besoins agronomiques, de facon qu'elles peuvent couvrir une grande partie des champs qui sont devenus disponibles par le declin de la culture du ble de printemps et de la terrejachere en Saskatchewan, sont transportes aux traiteurs locaux ou regionaux, et ont egalement tire benefice du developpement des marches domestiques et etrangers. Des benefices par rapport aux cultures speciales ont aussi ete tires de la recherche et de son transfert aux agriculteurs et des regroupements de producteurs agricoles. La categorie de cultures speciales a ete plus importante en 2001 dans les zones de sol brun et brun lonches que les zones de sol noir et gris, bien que chaque culture speciale ait montre une distribution geographique unique.

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Title: The rise of specialty crops in Saskatchewan, 1981-2001.
Author: William J. Carlyle
Publication: The Canadian Geographer (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Canadian Association of Geographers
Volume: 48Issue: 2Page: 137(15)

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This Saskatchewan Recreation map is easy to read and produced by Canada's leading map publisher, Map Art. Map Art's style of cartography, dedication to their craft since 1974, and local expertise, makes them Canada's leading map publisher. What makes this map so great is it's comprehensive information regarding skiing, camping, hiking and golf. Designed for the outdoor enthusiast heading to the great white north!

This attractive and information-rich map covers the entire province of Saskatchewan in splendid detail. Useful information such as elevation, major transportation routes, and national parks is clearly displayed. Of particular use to travelers is the tremendous attention paid to road designation and the extensive labeling of physical features such as mountain ranges, valleys and peaks. Completing this map are inset maps of the major metropolitan areas and it's fully indexed. ... Read more

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"Saskatchewan: Geographic Perspectives" is Saskatchewan's first comprehensive geography textbook. Its major sections cover these themes: Physical Geography, Historical and Cultural Geography, Population and Settlement, and Economic Geography. Eighteen chapters provide an excellent overview of the province from a variety of geographic perspectives, while twenty-nine focus studies explore specific topics in depth. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Saskatchewan," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Saskatchewan in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Saskatchewan when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Saskatchewan, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Saskatchewan," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Saskatchewan in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Saskatchewan when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Saskatchewan, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Saskatchewan," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Saskatchewan in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Saskatchewan when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Saskatchewan, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 1998. The length of the article is 840 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620. (book reviews)
Author: Robert Hiffe
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1998
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 33Issue: 3Page: 450

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1245 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science From Cassini to Humboldt. (Reviews: general and international). (book review)
Author: Rob Iliffe
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 36Issue: 3Page: 637(3)

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In her triumphant debut novel, Charlotte Bacon explores the transitions that sixty years visit upon the members of an unforgettable family—a Saskatchewan woman and her Scottish husband; their independent daughter who moves to Toronto; and her daughter, who lives in France with her Turkish-English husband. In settings both rural and urban, these stalwart, resilient people respond not only to new environments and experiences but to the eruption of sudden loss. Taking the complexity of migration as its central subject, Lost Geography invites us to witness how habits of survival translate from one generation to another.
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A beautiful tale of many generations
I loved this book. It was eloquent, intersting and grabbed my attention. A very smooth read. When I read books like this I marvel at those who have the gift of telling a story.

Excited/nervous!
I have'nt read this book as of yet but looked up reviews for it because I will be taking a form and theory fiction writing class in the spring taught by Charlotte Bacon.I wanted to see reviews of her book and what her writing style is like.I am excited that it seems to be a generally well liked book, but nervous because I don't usually write in a depressing manner.Well, I'm sure I will learn a lot!! I will let everyone know how her class is!

Some geographies were lost, but new ones were found
The common thread in this book is the transcontinental distances that characters put between themselves and their families.It all starts with Davis leaving Scotland for Canada, not so much to find a living, but to escape the stifling constraints of tradition.Then Hilda, his daughter, left her past in Regina and moved to Toronto.Hilda's daughter, Danielle, needs to escape her mother, who is larger than life without even trying, and in order to find hr own identity, moves to Paris.There she falls in love with Osman, who has also abandoned his native England escaping a sad childhood.And so it goes...

The first chapters of the book are definitively for the impatient reader, as the author does not spend too much time recreating scenes or circumstances.There is a certain economy of language, and the flow hassles through.Once we get to Paris, the pace slows down, and we get to savor the intricacies of the characters.I enjoyed this book, and identified especially with Danielle's character.I did not appreciate the common use of archetypes that the author used, though, above all when it came to define French or Canadian people. Still, this is well worth a read.

deeper than it seems
Lost Geography is a story about the search for each character's place in the world.Each character is uprooted from the familiar and must find a place that 'fits' in a new and strange landscape in which they are in many ways an outsider.And as they find a place in which they 'fit', they find that each choice closes off channels of possibility, of adventure, and that in settling into their place, they must face up to the joy and pain of real (though sometimes mundane) life.These common threads of exploration, adaptation, choice, these tie four very different generations together.Margaret and Davis find on their wedding night that they really do fit.Hilda finds Armand, then devotes herself to her daughter.Danielle is both the light and the anchor for Osman's roving soul.And Death is, inevitably, part of life.In this story the separation of children from their parents severs them from familiar modes of understanding, from their history, and this forces them, with varying degrees of success, to forge new ways of understanding their place in the world.

I found the last scene quite moving.Osman's carpets, thick with dust from their previous owners, are a piece of history that he cannot let go of, just as he cannot let go of his memories of Danielle.Lost Geography is an easy read, but I believe the 'morals' may be deeper than it seems at first glance.Osman's story as he tells it to his children during Danielle's illness may be much like Bacon's intention for her novel.Sasha and Sophie are disappointed with the story because they did not expect such an abrupt ending."What's the moral?" they ask.And avoiding cliche, Bacon also seems to answer casually, "I don't know," leaving the pondering to the reader.

Bacon has a talent for carving out unique characters in simple, spare terms.With love stories that resonate with deep romance, subtle shades of understanding, sharp observations about people's intentions, Lost Geography is a very moving account of four generations of 'migrants', in the literal and metaphorical sense of the word.

Strange and Depressing
I thought this book was a little strange--not necessarily in how it was written, but that the lives of the women in this book seem so SILENT. Margaret & Davis don't talk to each other, Hilda goes through live pushing everyone away, and not saying the things that are important, Danielle & Osman drift along until Danielle gets sick, and then no one talks about her being sick.Sophie has to struggle through live without a mother and trying to bring her father back to life.

It's depressing because just when you think life is turning around for the characters, someone dies.Some of the deaths are romanticized, but it doesn't quite erase the fact that the person is dead.

THe writing on the book jacket sounded interesting--maybe they were trying to relate the title to the novel itself.I can understand why some people are drawn to stay in one place and others aren't, but that really only affects the first part of the book.Davis stays in Regina because he falls in love with Margaret, Hilda moves to Toronto to escape after her parents' death, Danielle is forced by her mom to move to Paris to protect her from men, and Sophie is forced to move to New York with her family to escape memories of her mom.

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