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  1. Cree Kis-is-ska-tche-wan `swift flowing'
  2. province of W Canada. area 652,300 sq
  3. km/251,788 sq mi capital Regina towns
  4. Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, Prince Albert physical
  5. prairies in the S; to the N, forests, lakes,
  6. and subarctic tundra; Prince Albert National
  7. Park products more than 60% of Canada's
  8. wheat; oil, natural gas, uranium, zinc,
  9. potash (world's largest reserves), copper,
  10. helium (the only western reserves outside the
  11. USA) population (1986) 1,010,000 history
  12. French trading posts established about 1750;
  13. owned by Hudson's Bay Company, first
  14. permanent settlement 1774; ceded to Canadian
  15. government 1870 as part of Northwest
  16. Territories; became a province 1905
  17.