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Manitoba

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Manitoba is a province in the Prairies of Canada. It is well known for its agriculture, culture and history. Visitors come for the fishing and other outdoor activities, although there are several historical sites worth visiting.

Saskatchewan

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Saskatchewan is a Canadian province on in the Prairies. While the southern third of the province is a prairie known for its flat fields of wheat, the northern two-thirds is covered in the boreal forest of the Canadian Shield, with most of Saskatchewan's 100,000 lakes. The fresh air and open sky are other distinctive features of the prairie. There is little light pollution, and therefore stargazing is wonderful.

Alberta

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Alberta spans great, contrasting sceneries of mountains, forests and prairies. It offers the visitor six UNESCO World Heritage sites, preserving mountain vistas, the Wood Buffalo National Park (the world's largest inland delta and largest protected boreal forest), Dinosaur Provincial Park (one of the world's great dinosaur fossil beds), historic Indigenous rock art (at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park), and buffalo hunting sites (Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump).

Ontario

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Ontario is Canada's second-largest province, and the most populous, with more than 14 million inhabitants. It is home to the Canadian capital city of Ottawa, and Toronto, which is Ontario's capital and Canada's largest city.

Quebec

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Quebec is a province in Canada, the largest in size and second only to Ontario in population. French is the first language of a majority of Quebecois and the sole official language of the province, making it the only Canadian province that is officially monolingual in French. The provincial capital of Quebec is Quebec City, the province's largest city is Montreal, the second largest city in Canada.

While surrounded by English-speaking lands, Quebec is one of the few parts of North America with a preserved French heritage and language.

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