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Wet Prairie

People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba

By: Shannon Stunden Bower

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Wet Prairie

People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba

By: Shannon Stunden Bower

The Canadian prairies are often envisioned as dry, windswept fields; however, much of southern Manitoba is not arid plain but wet prairie, poorly drained land subject to frequent flooding. Shannon Stunden Bower brings to light the complexities of surface-water management in Manitoba, from early artificial drainage efforts to late-twentieth-century attempts at watershed management. She engages scholarship on the state, liberalism, and bioregionalism in order to probe the connections between human and environmental change in the wet prairie. This account of an overlooked aspect of the region’s environmental history reveals how the biophysical nature of southern Manitoba has been an important factor in the formation of Manitoba society and the provincial state.

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077485992X

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Transforming the Prairies

Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada

By: Shannon Stunden Bower

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Transforming the Prairies

Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada

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Transforming the Prairies proposes a new understanding of Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), complicating common views of the agency as a model of effective government environmental management. Between 1935 and 2009, the PFRA promoted agricultural rehabilitation in and beyond the Canadian Prairies with mixed and equivocal results. The promotion of strip farming as a soil conservation technique, for example, left crops susceptible to sawfly infestations. The PFRA’s involvement in irrigation development in Ghana increased the local population’s vulnerability to various illnesses. And PFRA infrastructure construction intended to serve the public good failed to account for the interests of affected Indigenous peoples. The PFRA is revealed as being a high modernist state agency that produced varied environmental outcomes and that contributed to consolidating colonialism and racism. This investigation affirms the importance of engaging historical perspectives to help ensure that contemporary environmental management efforts support more just and sustainable futures.

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Transforming the Prairies

Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada

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Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada

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Wet Prairie

People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba

By: Shannon Stunden Bower

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People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba

By: Shannon Stunden Bower

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