The Canadian Prairies Are Hiding Something Nobody Talks About

There is a piece of Canada bigger than all of Great Britain — and the explorer who mapped it told the British Empire it was worthless. In 1857 John Palliser crossed the southern prairies, declared them a barren desert unfit for farming, and stamped his name on a triangle across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. He was wrong in almost every way. In this video we count down 22 things hiding inside the Palliser Triangle — from the Dirty Thirties dust bowl and the Great Sand Hills, to the Cypress Hills standing above the Ice Age glaciers, the darkest night skies in the country, Sitting Bull's years in hiding, and at number one, Scotty — the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found anywhere on Earth, pulled straight out of the land Palliser called useless. This is the side of Canada that never made it into the school books. Drop the fact that surprised you most in the comments — I read every one. Subscribe to The Hidden Provinces. #PalliserTriangle #Canada #CanadianHistory #Saskatchewan #Geography