The Region

These landscapes are all from the rural area to the north and west of the city of Winnipeg. This region is part of the Great Plains region of North America. The land is flat with deep topsoil that is ideally suited for agriculture. The original vegetation was tall grass prairie—open stretches of grassland with scattered clumps of trees.

The Places

• Coulee Bridge—on the north side of the TransCanada Highway, west of Winnipeg
• Field—north of Winnipeg in the northwestern edge of the St Andrew's Bog, (now drained). The Oak Hammock Marsh Wildlife Refuge is at the center of the former bog.
• Covert—just down the road from Field
• Riverbank—the Winnipeg Floodway, the diversion channel that protects Winnipeg from the floodwaters of the Red River
• Prairie near St Laurent—St Laurent is on the shore of Lake Manitoba, northwest of Winnipeg. The prairie is within sight of the lakeshore and two or three miles south of town.
• Island—this clump of poplars is southeast of the site of Prairie near St Laurent.