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INDUSTRY
On a lonely stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway, in the heart of what local radio announcers call the "Wheat Belt," a large sign advises motorists that the next turn to the left will take them to the Great Plains Industrial Drive. The sign, on the flat, dusty, and seemingly empty Saskatchewan landscape, looks like a statement of hope rather than of economic developments already realized.
In the popular mind, the Great Plains of North America consists of vast open spaces inhabited by cowboys, wheat farmers, oil-patch wildcatters, and roughnecks. The huge smoke belching factories and blast furnaces of industrial America and the microchip valleys of modern technology are located elsewhere. The perception is that people living on the Plains produce only raw materials, mainly agricultural, that are shipped in a raw or semi processed state to major industrial, manufacturing, and processing centers outside the region.
There is, nonetheless, a great deal of industrial activity in the region if one considers not only the primary and secondary processing and manufacturing, whereby raw materials are converted into finished consumer products, but also the extraction, handling, and marketing of the region's resources and the numerous regional service industries. Developments in the various resource industries are similar in some respects, but there are also important differences, making it necessary to examine them separately.
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