The Prairie City That SHOULD Have RULED the West

Winnipeg was going to rule the West. By 1911 it was Canada's third-largest city, the railway gateway to the Prairies, and one decision ended that. This is the history of Winnipeg, Manitoba: the grain money, the banks that crowded the Exchange District, the 1919 General Strike, and a city that planned for a million people and never got them. True North Unseen tells the stories of the towns, companies and icons that built Canada and then left it. Subscribe to help keep a light on in the places Canada forgot.