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This is another of our continuing special series of texts covering the ten provinces and three territories of Canada. Today we’re staying in the prairies but going to the easternmost prairie province of Manitoba. It’s known for its agricultural production of grains, potatoes and sunflower seeds and for Canada’s only Arctic deep-water seaport in Churchill, where world-famous polar bear and beluga whale watching takes place.
We have a few books about the early history of Manitoba including The Red River Colony: A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Canada, First Furrows: A History of the Early Settlement of the Red River Country by Alfred Campbell Garrioch, and a historical fiction account of Lord Selkirk’s Red River Colony in Mine Inheritance by Frederick Niven.
Other eBooks specifically related to Manitoba include Birds of Manitoba by Ernest Thompson Seton, Grain, a novel about life on a grain farm by Robert Stead, and The Real Home-Keeper, a cookbook and home-management guide for Winnipeg brides introducing them to the Winnipeg businesses of 1914.
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