Although the Canadian West is renowned throughout the world for growing the finest wheat, its economy included much more than grain production.

Cattle ranching, mining, oil and gas production, brick- and pottery-making, and lumbering were but a few of the other economic activities associated with Western Canada. Indeed, the cities and towns in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta quickly developed just as broad an industrial base as was found anywhere else in Canada.

Some of the exhibits in the Canada Hall show the breadth of economic development that had taken place across the West between 1890 and 1945.