Mandate

The Canadian Plains Research Center (CPRC) was established in 1973 as an interdisciplinary regional research centre. Its mandate is to initiate, undertake, encourage, support, and publish scholarly research on all aspects of prairie life, including its history, resources, land, and people.

To foster an understanding and appreciation of the Canadian Plains region.
To develop a community of people studying the region.
To study and help solve problems of the region, its people and its resources.
To provide services to prairie institutions and researchers.
To publish scholarly work which examines life in the prairie region of Canada.