The Prairie Sea

The Prairie Sea
Author: Leslie Yaremko
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2018-09-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1525509772

Today is Grandmother’s birthday, but there’s no time to waste! Hanna is planning a very special birthday present for her grandmother. They are going to the sea! But how is that possible? The ocean is so far away. Hanna can’t wait to share her special surprise but she must hurry. The magical sea will soon disappear! In this enchanting story, Hanna helps Grandmother remember her long ago home, the beauty of the sea and the creatures in it. And as they dance and play together in the rolling waves, they experience the wonders and magic of their very own Prairie Sea.

The Prairie Short Season Yard

The Prairie Short Season Yard
Author: Lyndon Penner
Publisher: Brush Education
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1550595431

Everything you need to know for a quick and beautiful yard on the Canadian prairies. Creating and maintaining the perfect yard on the prairies isn’t as hard as you might think, but the short growing season doesn’t give you much time to transform your winter-weary yard into a glorious garden. To help homeowners in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba get the jump on the short season, popular gardening expert Lyndon Penner has created the essential guide to a quick and beautiful yard in the prairie provinces. With gardening smarts, style and wit, Lyndon covers everything both novice and expert gardeners need to know, along with tips you won’t find anywhere else. Contains more than 200 beautiful, colour photos. Quickly find what you need to know about climate zones, soil, colour, texture and shade. Understand your yard’s potential. Pick the best bulbs, perennials, trees and shrubs for your yard. Deal with insects and plant diseases in environmentally friendly ways. Shop smarter at garden centres. Attract animals you want to your garden, and keep away the ones you don’t. Another version of this book, The Chinook Short Season Yard, is available for gardeners who live in the southern Alberta chinook zone. Get a free ebook through the Shelfie app with the purchase of a print copy.

The Prairie

The Prairie
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2014-02-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0674728432

In The Prairie (1827), Cooper's most celebrated literary work, Natty Bumppo, now aged, is reduced to making a living by trapping. As his journey from Atlantic to Pacific nears its end in a vast uninhabited grassland that Cooper consistently imagines as an ocean of the interior, nothing less than the future identity of America is at stake.

The Prairie World

The Prairie World
Author: David Francis Costello
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 1980
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0816609381

Reveals the grassland's history, climate, landscape, ever-changing moods, and survival battles waged by plant and animal inhabitants

The Little Prairie Book of Berries

The Little Prairie Book of Berries
Author: Sheryl Normandeau
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781771513425

A celebration of some of the lesser-known berries local to the prairie region, including sea buckthorn, haskap, saskatoons, currants, sour cherries, and chokecherries. This little cookbook is all about the berries and small fruits grown in prairie gardens, gathered from U-pick farms, and foraged in the wild. Home cook and accomplished gardener Sheryl Normandeau presents 65 recipes for everything from meat, poultry, and fish dishes, vegetable and grain dishes, to desserts, baked goods, beverages, and preserves (including fruit leather). If you've ever gathered some of these favourite prairie berries and then wondered what to make, with Normandeau's help you'll soon have no trouble putting them to use in easy, fun, and flavourful recipes like: Sea Buckthorn Berry and Earl Grey Tea Cocktail Pan-Fried Salmon with Sea Buckthorn Berry Sauce Saskatoon Berry Cream Puffs Currant Meringue Cookies Haskap Beet Dark Chocolate Brownies Baked Brie with Chokecherry Drizzle Chokecherry Rosewater Jelly Beautifully illustrated, the book also includes instructions for how to make and process jams and jellies, tips for storing and drying berries, and guidelines for successful foraging. Whether you're new to the prairie region's flora or have a stockpile of fond roadside berry-picking memories, it's the perfect go-to and gift.

Vikings on a Prairie Ocean

Vikings on a Prairie Ocean
Author: Glenn Sigurdson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781926531939

Well-known mediator and lawyer, Glenn Sigurdson blends personal memoir, family history and Icelandic lore in a unique and wide-ranging autobiography. Vikings on a Prairie Ocean brings to life the people and places of Lake Winnipeg since the arrival of the Icelandic settlers to its shores in 1875 through the engaging lens of a family legacy of fishing on those waters. The perils of summer and winter fishing on an unpredictable and unforgiving lake are interwoven with accounts of Aboriginal partnerships, colourful characters, and a proud, resilient family.

Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea

Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea
Author: Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1443113344

Ivy Weatherall is just 11 years old when her family leaves England for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West. They've come to join her uncle for the available land, the lush harvests, and the opportunity for success. But in Milorie, Saskatchewan, their dreams crumble into dust when they reach Uncle Alf's small sod hut and discover that jobs are scarce, and that they can barely make ends meet. Ivy's relatives pack up and head back to England, but to Ivy, Canada is full of wonder and beginning to feel like home. There are challenges in her new life, but Ivy's feisty character and her sense of wonder for a prairie as wide as the sea make her adventure one that readers won't easily forget. Vetted by a historical expert, this book contains maps, period illustrations/documents, and an extensive historical note.