Dave Parry sang a wonderful song called "The Young British Rancher" on his cassette The Wind That Tramps the World that is a parody of Kipling's Young British Soldier, and describes the toils and travails of ranching in BC (I think it was BC and not the prairie provinces...)

I Googled for the words, but the Canadian folklore site that has them isn't responding collections.ic.gc.ca/folklore/worksong/rancher.htm