Showcase your province's varied landscapes - Page 73

csbvan · #**1441** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 3:38 PM**

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Top-drawer photography, csbvan. The first two pics are especially stunning in their saturation and contrast.

Thanks! I always find it difficult to capture a stunning sunset in any way that does it justice.

Calgarian · #**1442** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 4:12 PM**

Great shots, love both those parts of BC, will be in the south Kootenays in 2 weeks, and was just in the Okanagan.

EndoftheBeginning · #**1443** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 5:53 PM**

Not my province, but happened to be in rural SK south of Cadillac / north of Val Marie and took a few scenic shots in between work duties. Really a beautiful part of the province.

Laceoflight · #**1444** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 6:09 PM**

Gorgeous pictures, EndoftheBeginning!
What strikes me the most is the similarity between those SK landscapes and the ones we find on the Massif Central, southern France.
What are those hilly prairies used for ? Pastures ? Forage crops ? Transhumance, maybe ? If you know, I would be more than interested to learn about the land use.

For example, here are the high plateaus of Aubrac (alt. ~1000 m.), where I'm currently working.

EndoftheBeginning · #**1445** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 6:19 PM**

The areas in the pictures are used as pasture to graze cattle - the land basically hasn't been broken up for planting crops, so the cattle graze on the natural prairie vegetation. There are areas of planted crops (grains mostly) around this part of the province as well.

Laceoflight · #**1446** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 6:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by EndoftheBeginning

The areas in the pictures are used as pasture to graze cattle - the land basically hasn't been broken up for planting crops, so the cattle graze on the natural prairie vegetation. There are areas of planted crops (grains mostly) around this part of the province as well.

Ok thanks! Very similar to the Aubrac, then. It's nice to see the parallels between 2 totally different places, with a different bedrock geology. I'll sure read more about cattle and grazing in SK, if I find litterature about it.

EndoftheBeginning · #**1447** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 6:28 PM**

What is kind of funny is that just a few km from where I took those pictures is a place called Frenchville, and quite a few people from the area have French surnames. I haven't researched the history to know if the settlers were from Quebec or France though.

Laceoflight · #**1448** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by EndoftheBeginning

What is kind of funny is that just a few km from where I took those pictures is a place called Frenchville, and quite a few people from the area have French surnames. I haven't researched the history to know if the settlers were from Quebec or France though.

Funny!
They probably were métis from the Prairies though. So people from QC and Acadia that migrated there and then mixed with the First Nations.

Rico Rommheim · #**1449** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 6:50 PM**

There's nothing funny or particularly surprising about it, It is quite common knowledge that tens of thousands of french-canadians migrated west throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Hell, french and french-canadian explorers were the first europeans to reach the Mississippi and beyond, to the canadian rockies.

Laceoflight · #**1450** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 6:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

There's nothing funny or particularly surprising about it, It is quite common knowledge that tens of thousands of french-canadians migrated west throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Hell, french and french-canadian explorers were the first europeans to reach the Mississippi and beyond, to the canadian rockies.

I know all of this, I am a French Canadian. What was funny was the parallel made with the landscape and the inhabitants. One shouldn't read more than that.

TownGuy · #**1451** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 8:01 PM**

I'm really drawn to wide open spaces like that. Probably because it's all trees here. It's either forests or farm fields bordered with trees.

1ajs · #**1452** Posted **Aug 2, 2017, 1:21 AM**

last nights sunset lynn lake mb area

TownGuy · #**1453** Posted **Aug 8, 2017, 12:11 AM**

Wow gorgeous colours there!

The Thousand Islands. Actually shared between Ontario and NY State.

1000 Island Bridge-4020 by Robert Rutkay, on Flickr

1000 Islands, Onterio by ianonedge, on Flickr

The St. Lawrence River by Oram24, on Flickr

Some Of The 1000 by Oram24, on Flickr

SaskScraper · #**1454** Posted **Aug 9, 2017, 8:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by EndoftheBeginning

What is kind of funny is that just a few km from where I took those pictures is a place called Frenchville, and quite a few people from the area have French surnames. I haven't researched the history to know if the settlers were from Quebec or France though.

Some of the towns in this area of Saskatchewan were indeed first settled by the French. Missionaries and convents and schools set up to support the newly arrived francophone residents over a hundred years ago.

for history of some of the founding of towns in the area check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRKzcd_i3Uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3a86mm1I4U&t=86s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLWlmOr_msc&t=252s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beXswuocbac&t=70s

SaskScraper · #**1455** Posted **Aug 9, 2017, 8:52 PM**

USA Today opinion poll rated Grasslands National Park as Top 5 National Park in Canada.

http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/...ark-in-canada/

• Video Link

Interestingly, Saskatchewan & Alberta were the only two provinces to have more than one National Park rated in Top Ten.

Prince Albert National Park is Saskatchewan's other Top Ten rated National Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQznH8avj6I

Acajack · #**1456** Posted **Aug 10, 2017, 1:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by SaskScraper

Some of the towns in this area of Saskatchewan were indeed first settled by the French. Missionaries and convents and schools set up to support the newly arrived francophone residents over a hundred years ago.

for history of some of the founding of towns in the area check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRKzcd_i3Uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3a86mm1I4U&t=86s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLWlmOr_msc&t=252s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beXswuocbac&t=70s

Not sure if it's the case for those towns, but in many parts of the West the European ''French'' settlers were actually Belgian francophones and Swiss francophones. I've met a number of Western Canadian francophones who are of Swiss or Belgian origins.