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Southern Alberta is renowned for its [[cowboy]] culture, which developed when real [[Ranch#The Open Range|open range ranching]] was practiced in the 1880s.<ref name=atlas /> Canada's first rodeo, the [[Raymond Stampede]], was established in 1902. These influences are also evident in the [[music of Canada's Prairie Provinces]]. This can be attributed partially to the massive influx of American settlers who began to migrate to Alberta (and to a lesser extent, Saskatchewan) in the late 1880s because of the lack of available land in the United States.
The Prairie Provinces have given rise to the "prairie protest" movements. Radical solutions are sometimes considered sound in the more open western culture. Organized Farmer groups and politicized labour grops were a feature of the inter-war years. The One Big Union was founded on the Prairies; the [[Winnipeg General Strike of 1919]] was the biggest [[general strike]] in Canadian history. The United Farmers of Alberta was the longest-lasting post-WWI Farmer government in Canada. Monetary reform (Social Credit) elected its first government in the world in Alberta in 1932. Preston Manning's Reform Party, 1987 to 2000, had its strongest support among Prairie voters.
These political movements (both of the left and right) tend to feed off of well established feelings of [[Western alienation]], and each one represents a distinct challenge to the perceived [[Central Canada|Central Canadian]] elite.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Peterson |first1=Larry |title=Revolutionary Socialism and Industrial Unrest in the Era of the Winnipeg General Strike: The Origins of Communist Labour Unionism in Europe and North America |journal=Labour / Le Travail |date=1 January 1984 |volume=13 |pages=115–131 |doi=10.2307/25140403 |jstor=25140403 |s2cid=73518869 |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/LLT/article/view/2604 |issn=1911-4842}}</ref>
The Prairies continue to have a wide range of political representation. While the [[Conservative Party of Canada]] has widespread support throughout the region at both
== See also ==
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