Paleoclimate research suggests the 'normal' long-term weather of the: prairies is much more drought-prone than the past century was.

by the agency of COLBY COSH

The last thing anybody who lives upon the broad North Saskatchewan River worries about is waking up individual morning and having the river not be there. Edmontonians worry more about flooding, if anything; in 1915 the water horizontal rose so high that a heavy trainload of coal had to be parked upon the deck of the depressed Level Bridge to prevent it from being swept away. on the other hand what if our historical memory was plane longer than that? Deep in the archives of the Hudson's Bay Company there are reports of dryness around Fort Edmonton that practically dare the imagination. At one point