the expanse of treeless grassland in the southern third of the Prairie Provinces, lying roughly between Winnipeg and Calgary.
See also: bald-headed
- 1903  Every mark of the handiwork of man on the bald prairie had been made by himself.
- 1958  This [the North West] was a vague wilderness near a place called Winnipeg, where you could file on a homestead of 160 acres of bald prairie for free.