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18 Cards in this Set
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Most settlers in the Canadian west got 160 _____ of land
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acres
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western provinces created in 1905
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Alberta and Saskatchewan
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The inventor of Red Fife Wheat
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David Fife
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Religious sect from Russia, they settled in the Canadian west
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Doukhobors
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products sold to buyers outside the country
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exports
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a new railway built during this period was the _____ _____ Pacific
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Grand Trunk
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a person who comes into a country from a foreign country
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immigrant
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the prime minister of Canada during the great wheat boom
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Laurier
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the oldest of Canada's three prairie provinces
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Manitoba
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the promoters of the Canadian Northern Railway were William Mackenzie and Donald _____
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Mann
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Charles Saunders developed _____ wheat
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Marquis
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Pile O' Bones Creek - it became the capital of Saskachewan
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Regina
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Minister of the Interior who did much to promote the west
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Sifton
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what the first prairie homes were often made from
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sod
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wheat growing area of Russia from which many immigrants came
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Ukraine
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country which gave Canada over 1,000,000 new settlers in this period
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the United States
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main crop grown in the Canadian west
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wheat
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gateway city to the Canadian prairies
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Winnipeg
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