Once upon an era, like before the late 1940s, when the Leduc no. 1 oil well changed everything, Alberta had an agricultural economy.  How did that go? Sometimes OK, but most times...not.  People think of the Dirty Thirties dust-bowl times on the Canadian prairies.  What most people don't know about is the killer southern Alberta drought that preceded the 30s by ten years.  

How bad? So bad the government paid railroads to load up hundreds of farm families and what was left of their livestock and implements and roll them into the far north Peace area to start all over again...

And we talk about climate change today....