Saskatchewan
Treasuries for Saskatchewan gold, grain elevators dominate the Canadian wheat belt. The trans-Canadian railroad first linked the region to 1882. Branch lines soon threaded the prairie, carrying farmers to some of the world’s richest cropland. Towns grew, and elevators appeared. Few communities today lack these wheat filled monuments to productivity in the province that provides more than 60 percent of Canada’s yield. A rising demand for Canadian wheat and the land hunger of crowded city people peasants helped loose a flood of newcomers that by 1910 had deposited nearly half a million inhabitants in Saskatchewan. Though many immigrant families have diversified, farming remains the leading occupation. Settlers concentrated in the territory’s southern half. The Northern half remains a forbidding expanse of rock and water, but the promise of riches from mineral-bearing ores begins to intrude on its emptiness. Millions of years ago, Saskachewan's vast prairie was covered by a large inland sea. Today, those dried sea beds - now buried one kilometre underground - are the source of the world's largest potash deposits.
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