What is the geographical environment and climate like in Saskatchewan, Canada now?

Saskatchewan is the original name of the Indians living on this plain. In their language, it is kisiskatchewan, which means a slow-moving river and refers to the most important river flowing through their territory. Saskatchewan covers an area of over 250,000 square miles. More than half of this province is covered by forests, 1/3 of the land is agricultural land, and 1/8 is lakes. About 1 10,000 people live here, and many of them have European, Russian, Scandinavian and British ancestors.

Saskatchewan, Canada's granary and prairie province

Saskatchewan, one of the three grassland provinces in Canada, has a rectangular terrain and is known as "Canada's granary", with an area of 65 1.900 square kilometers, accounting for 6.5% of the country's total area, of which the forest area is about 352,000 square kilometers and the fresh water area is about 8 1.600 square kilometers. Flat and vast terrain. Rivers, lakes and swamps are all over the vast plains. The annual temperature is between 42℃ and -53℃, and the snowfall reaches 30%. In addition, the terrain is low and there is no mountain coverage. Once the wind blows, especially in cold winter, the temperature will drop by more than ten degrees. The population is about 654.38+00,000, accounting for 3.6% of Canada's population.

Saskatchewan is surrounded by neighboring provinces, with Alberta on the left and Manitoba on the right. The south is Montana and North Dakota in the United States, and the north is a large piece of frozen soil belonging to the northwest. Saskatchewan is a vast plain dotted with hundreds of lakes. Before the arrival of white immigrants, a large number of bison roamed the endless grassland. Nowadays, the grassland in the past has become a large mechanized wheat field. As a province of Canada, Saskatchewan has a short history. Before 1870, only explorers and fur traders went. 1870, the newly established (Canadian) autonomous government purchased this land from Hudson's Bay Company, which operated the leather goods industry, and included it as a part of the northwest region. 1905 became an independent region and was accepted as the eighth province of the Federation. Although the area of Saskatchewan is larger than that of most European countries, it is vast and sparsely populated, with only 6.5438+0.02 million residents in the province. Regina is the capital and Saskatoon is the largest city.

This used to be the headquarters of the Northwest Mounted Police, the predecessor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Northwest Mounted Police, founded in 1874, ensured the public order in the vast western region at that time, which was in sharp contrast with the chaos in the western United States at that time. Today, it is also the Royal Mounted Police Museum of the history of the new Mounted Police.