Saskatchewan
Grasslands
- Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/sk/grasslands/index_e.asp
- Location: In the southwestern part of the province near the Saskatchewan-Montana border, part in the Frenchman River Valley and part in the Rock Creek area
- Area: Expanding to 900 km2 347( mi2)
- Proclaimed: 2001
- Historical:
- Prime buffalo hunting-grounds for the ancestors of the Assiniboine, the Cree, and the Blackfoot
- First national park of Canada to preserve a portion of the mixed prairie grasslands
- Features:
Prince Albert
- Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/sk/princealbert/index_e.asp
- Location: 60 km (37 mi) north of the city of Prince Albert, near the geographic centre of the province.
- Area: 3,875 km2 (1,496 mi2)
- Proclaimed: 1927
- Historical:
- Native settlements from 4,000 to 7,500 years ago, according to archaeological findings
- Hudson’s Bay Company trading post built on Lake Waskesiu in 1886
- Features:
- The only fully protected white pelican nesting colony in Canada,
- Lakeside cabin of conservationist Grey Owl
- A free-ranging herd of plains bison.
- See also: http://www.innvista.com/science/ecology/parks/princeal.htm
