Pemmican

From the North American Great Plains, the Aboriginal and Metis created Bison Pemmican.

Peter Pond is credited with introducing this vital food to the trade in 1779, having obtained it from the Chipewyans in the Athabasca region. Later, posts along the Red, Assiniboine and North Saskatchewan Rivers were devoted to acquiring pemmican from Aboriginal peoples living in the region as well as the Metis.

Pemmican is dried meat, traditionally bison, pounded into coarse powder and mixed with an equal amount of melted fat, and sometimes Saskatoon Berries, cranberries or blueberries.

Cooled and sewn into bison-hide bags in 41kg lots, pemmican was a dense, high-protein and high-energy food that could be stored and shipped with ease to provision voyageurs in the fur trade travelling in the prairie regions where, especially in winter, food could be scarce.

Canadian Prairie Bison is a Western Canadian Bison Producer based co-operative with approximately 150 bison producers over the four Western provinces, raising top quality, naturally fed bison. Bison meat is very healthy, naturally high in iron, and lower in fat, calories and cholesterol.

Our Bison Pemmican and Jerky is made with locally raised bison, locally grown Saskatoon berries, high quality “WILD” blueberries, and made locally at The Food Centre in the University of Saskatchewan.

Each flavour is available in a master case of 12 boxes, containing 12 pieces per box. Please contact for pricing.

Canadian Prairie Bison                                                  
Box 74, Canwood, SK S0J 0K0
Ph: (306) 468-2316
Email: orders@cdnbison.com

We ship personal orders out from our office as well!

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SASKATCHEWAN

Sobeys Stonebridge – 3100 Preston Ave S, Saskatoon

Safeway Lawson Heights – 134 Primrose Dr., Saskatoon

SaskMade Marketplace – Saskatoon

The Berry Barn – Saskatoon

Lake Country Co-op – Shellbrook gas station

Prairie Unique Gifts – Saskatoon Airport

Western Developement Museum – North Battleford

Grotto Gardens – Maple Creek

Ferster’s Fruit Trucks

ONTARIO

Made In Canada Gifts, Rideau Centre, 50 Rideau Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 9J7 (613) 729-6378

Made In Canada Gifts, Bayshore Shopping Centre, 100 Bayshore Drive, Nepean, ON K2B 8C1 (613) 514-0196

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Bearspaw Kananaskis Travel Centre – Kananaskis AB

Jasper Sky Tram – Jasper AB

Rocky Bear Gifts & More – Jasper AB

The Great Canadian Adventure  – Arrowwood AB

Glacier Park – Waterton AB

Heritage Park – Calgary AB

British Columbia

Provisions Market & Gifts – Langley BC

Bannok Queen Bakery – Delta BC

Manitoba

Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum – Winnipeg MB