The last best West

A historical promotional name for the Canadian Prairie West. Historical; survives in Prairie heritage references Regional use: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and federal Canadian promotional usage.

A Canadian settlement slogan tied to the transfer of Rupert's Land, the 1872 Dominion Lands Act, and the federal campaign to attract homesteaders to Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. It is visible on promotional material by 1907. The wording cast the Prairies as the last major western farmland after easier U.S. land had been claimed; that promotional frame also obscured Indigenous presence, treaty obligations, and dispossession.