The Canadian Prairies Are Hiding Things Most Canadians Never See

#Canada #HiddenCanada #CanadianGeography Most people cross the Canadian Prairies as fast as the speed limit allows. Flat, they say. Empty. Nothing to see. But out there lies a boulder the size of a house that the ice carried hundreds of kilometres, a lake where you cannot sink, and a hillside where you can put your hand on the day the dinosaurs died. Here are 30 things the prairies are hiding: the land that climbs 800 metres without a mountain, the first bird sanctuary in North America, the Regina Cyclone of 1912, the tunnels under Moose Jaw, a desert with kangaroo rats, the buffalo jump used for 6,000 years, the darkest sky in Canada, and Scotty, the heaviest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. 00:00 Intro 00:53 No. 30 The flat land that climbs 01:45 No. 29 The duck factory 02:56 No. 28 The first bird sanctuary 03:45 No. 27 The rock that travelled 04:44 No. 26 The valley too big for its river 05:35 No. 25 The lake where you cannot sink 06:27 No. 24 The floor that floats 07:09 No. 23 The land declared useless 07:54 No. 22 The wrong summer 08:40 No. 21 The years the soil blew away 09:32 No. 20 The prairie sentinels 10:28 No. 19 The cyclone that hit a capital 11:28 No. 18 The tunnels under Moose Jaw 12:29 No. 17 The desert in the wheat fields 13:20 No. 16 The hills above the ice 14:06 No. 15 The massacre that called the Mounties 15:05 No. 14 The outlaw trail 16:00 No. 13 The cliff of the buffalo 17:04 No. 12 The writing on the stone 17:57 No. 11 The hail alley 19:03 No. 10 The darkest sky 19:52 No. 9 The ferret that came back 20:46 No. 8 The prairie dog towns 21:36 No. 7 The animal running from a ghost 22:26 No. 6 The red stones of the coulee 23:29 No. 5 Hell for a basement 24:13 No. 4 The skull in the coal 25:01 No. 3 The graveyard of the dinosaurs 26:10 No. 2 The line of the last day 26:59 No. 1 The biggest T. rex ever found #CanadaHistory #Geology #Documentary #ExploreCanada #CanadianHistory #NatureDocumentary #Geography #TrueNorth Map imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (CC BY 4.0, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016). Boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors.