Why You Can't Drive to This Canadian Town

There's a town in Canada you cannot drive to. No road of any kind reaches it. The sea it sits on is frozen most of the year, the ground never fully thaws, and one of the largest land predators on Earth walks down its main street. By every rule of geography, it should be an abandoned dot on the map. Instead, nearly 900 people live here — and Canada has spent a century, and hundreds of millions of dollars, refusing to let it die. So why does anybody live in Churchill, Manitoba? This is its incredible geographic story. In this video, we explore the strange geography of Churchill — why no road can reach it, how humans ever settled the edge of Hudson Bay, the billion-dollar port dream that almost failed, and how a town that should be unlivable turned its three biggest curses into the only reasons it survives. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:50 - The Town You Can't Drive To 3:00 - Why Anyone Came Here 5:15 - The Port Dream That Almost Failed 7:30 - The Polar Bear Capital of the World 9:30 - Life at the Edge of the World Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact us.