In a letter to the Truro newspaper, dated November 12, 1899, Karl wrote: “I came through the wheat fields of Minnesota, North Dakota, Manitoba and Assiniboia, and it is so lonely around there one would go crazy in a short time”.

The Canadian Prairies stretch from Ontario west to the foot of the Rockies in British Columbia. But t’s the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta that we associate the term “Prairies”.