As a Saskatchewanian, Manitoba being the one forgotten makes me feel a little vindicated lol. We really do appreciate Manitoba over here though: it means we don't border Ontario.
Manitoba is a dump. If it wasn't for money from the government they wouldn't be able to pay the bills or keep their lights on. They are now woke as f***. Moved from Winnipeg 10 years ago and will never go back. All my friends are now shaved head communists. Manitoba is a socialist s*** hole
Manitoba has far less prairie in comparison to Alberta and Sask though. Alberta and BC have some of the most northern farmland in the world, Manitoba transitions out of prairie much further south.
@@justsam7919 culturally, Manitoba is 100% “prairie”. Is the northern part of the province prairie? No, but neither is Saskatchewan. And the reason Alberta likely has farms far further north isn’t necessarily due to “being a prairie landscape” it’s due to Alberta having significantly more people than Manitoba and Saskatchewan combined meaning that more land was cleared for farming than either Manitoba or Sask. The key point here is culturally there are 3 prairie provinces and considering 90% of manitobas live within the range that would be considered “prairie” it should have been included
@@MrJoeSomebody oh gawd. grow up. its not always a competition. you sound like one of those people who would believe that Canadian cites are actually high on the list of best places in the world to live and brag about it.
I used to live in Moose Jaw briefly for work. One night at the bar, I had a chat with a farmer guy. He said he is a third-generation Italian Canadian. When his grandparents moved to Saskatchewan, they moved with another 26 families, all from Italy. They took some lands near Moose Jaw and cultivated them into farmlands, raised cattle, etc. After three generations, he is the only person still staying on the family farm out of all the offspring from those 26 families. Everybody else, including his children, has moved to other cities or provinces. This dude taught me valuable knowledge about discerning different types of beef. I bought him a drink as a return of favor.
can't survive as a farmer anymore is a large part of it. My uncle after farming for a full year often barely made above minimum wage , hard to sell that to people now.
I’m first generation Italian Canadian from Toronto and didn’t know that about the farmers but it makes sense. My dad’s relatives in Italy have all stopped farming too and moved to bigger cities 😢 Whose going to farm these days?
@@devadii24 People who love it, or more than likely all the centennial farms will get bought out by rather large corporate farms and then they'll sell us our food for whatever they feel like. There's a lot of really messed up stuff going on with farming, like say how all the modern farming equipment can't really be easily serviced by the farmers anymore, the anti repair aspect. And the other part is why John Deere equipment reads the farmers yield data, and keeps that information. Wouldn't be surprised if Deere then turns around and sells that data to "investors" who then speculate on the food market.
Just a few points: -Manitoba is also a prairie province -Saulteaux is pronounced "So Tow" -Métis is "May Tee" -Potash is "Pot Ash" -Tons of Albertans are actually from Saskatchewan. Many moved there for better economic opportunities because of the politics, use of resources, lower taxes, etc. compared to Sask. Thanks for making this.
@@keithng2517 as a current sask resident, i was gonna say what the hell is this comment string about, he pronounced it perfectly. but potash, however, hahaha
Born and raised in Saskatchewan. Back in the socialist days of the NDP rule in Saskatchewan, the joke was ' last one to leave Saskatchewan, turn off the lights '. Many, many Saskatchewanians left for the work and money of the oilpatch in Alberta. At my 10 year highschool reunion in 1994, 170 graduates out of a class of 268 were in Alberta.
@@createone100 so that the next educated generation can leave. Thats what you get with socialism. I graduated B Comm at U of S in 1985. Most of my class left for Alberta, Vancouver, or Toronto.. Staying was not an option if you wanted a decent job and it was 100% the result of socialism.
@@kneedeepinit Well,I have 3 degrees, one of which is a Masters. I stayed and made a good career and life here. I am retired now, with a comfortable pension, although I would love to not have to put up with Moe and the Sask. Party. Saskatchewan is a well-kept secret, and I love that people stay away. However, a great many immigrants seem to be coming here and starting businesses.
When I was living in Washington one of the family friends who was a long haul truck driver would take my brother and then myself on some of his trips. I remember going on one of these long haul trips to North Battleford Saskatchewan. It was during this time that for the first time I saw the Northern Lights the Aurora Borealis. It was an incredible experience. It looked liked ribbons of multi-colored light and it could be heard as the crackling and buzzing you hear next to a power station.
As someone from Saskatchewan, it’s pretty obvious and can be summed up in one word: oil (lol) Edit: to be fair he does mention this in his video. Good video might I add, all pretty accurate
No, it’s because alberta has actual land features besides one big piece of flat land. Have you ever heard of banff? That’s why nobody goes to sask. it’s deadly boring
@@niubi42069I live in Calgary - love Bannf. But Montana has amazing mountains too - how many people live there? Heck - Edmonton has almost same population as Calgary but it’s a long drive from mountains. It’s all about oil.
@@niubi42069 that’s the secondary reason. I love the Banff/Canmore area, if I had enough money I’d probably move there lol. But it’s definitely not the only reason, or as mkyou mentioned Montana and Wyoming would be more populous than Saskatchewan and they aren’t really. Heck, even Edmonton is not near the mountains. Most of Alberta is exactly like Saskatchewan, except for more oil Edit: also PS not all of Sask is flat. Only about the bottom 1/4 of it is. The northern part of the province has a lot of trees.
We Metis arent generally considered First Nations. We're Indigenous but distinct from First Nations. We also have a sizeable population in Saskatchewan with the core of our homeland being the Red River in Manitoba. We also have folks in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, northwestern Ontario, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana.
This has always seemed like a grey area that differs, not just from place to place but person to person as well. I'm half English/Scottish and half gwich'in. I've never been told I'm Metis outside of social studies class and all my family just considers me gwich'in. Same goes for anyone else I know who's part indigenous or First Nations. They never say they're Metis, they say what group they're connected to. It doesn't matter if they're 25% Cree or half Ojibwe. If they're connected, that's what they are.
@canucklhead6230 Lower-case m metis is just somebody who is mixed-race and a lot of Canadian social studies books get this wrong. Capital M Metis (Michif/Red River Metis and the group the video is referring to) is more than just half First Nations and half European, though. You're probably not Metis. It requires connection to the Métis Nation in the Prairies, self ID as Metis, and acceptance as Metis by the Métis Nation. There's a lot of misinformation about who is and isn't Metis, either definitions tend to be far too broad (any mixed First Nations and European) or exclude the Anglo-Metis (First Nations and French ancestry). I'm Metis and have Cree, Saulteaux Ojibwe, and Scottish ancestry.
@canucklhead6230 It's not a grey area. For example, my friends daughter is a recognized member of a Fist Nation Band, but also has Métis ancestry. If she wanted to be a recognized member of the Métis Nation though, she would have to renounce her First Nation Status and choose to Identify as Métis. Even if you can claim membership in either, you only get to pick one.
Good ol' Saskatchewan. As a kid in Canada we had a joke about the province: it's so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days. Kidding aside, I am surprised more was not discussed about the large influx of Ukrainians into the province. A lot of surnames with the suffix of 'chuck' come from there.
Yes, there are a lot of Ukrainians in Saskatchewan that’s for sure lol. I live there and I feel like I’m one of the only people without Ukrainian heritage sometimes lol
Good point, (and not mentioned), the Canadian Shield restricts SK farm lands and population to the lower 35/40% of SK.. Even more so in Manitoba. AB not so much.
The shield doesn't start until the halfway mark up the province. Much of the farmland below the north sask river was cleared by settlers and once you get North of the river the forests become much more dense. 50 km north of the river and the farmland is almost all gone. Farmland does go farther north along the western border of the province but the forests there are more poplar and willow. I think it has more to do with the effort required to clear the land than where the shield starts.
Ya, the population has grown very slowly. In 1931 the population was 921,785. 75 years later in 2006 it was still below a million at 985,386. It's grown a fair bit since then though and is now 1,231,043.
Manitoba is pouting now. Métis = mayTEE. Potash = POTash. Saskatchewan is also the only province that rejects Daylight Savings. Saskatoon is whitespeak from the Cree word 'Mis-sask-quah-too-mina' berry tree, that are similar to blueberries. Hoodies are called bunnyhugs. Alberta has oil but Sask has the One Red Paperclip.
Actually, Saskatchewan set their clocks one hour ahead in April of 1975 and left them there. We have had Permanent Daylight time for the last 49 years. Well, not quite true, the eastern third of SK is in the Central Time zone, so they are on Permanent Central Time. The western 2/3 is in the Mountain Time zone so has been on Permanent Mountain Daylight time since 1975.
@@Rancid-Jane this is false, the entirety of Saskatchewan is on central standard time year round. Which means for half the year they are central and half the year they are mountain time. The entire province (with exceptions to Lloydminister since it’s a border town) is always the same time zone.
Sask has near the same population as its Manitoba neighbor,and more than it''s southern neighbors of Montana,Wyoming and the Dakota States and much more than it's northern NWT neighbor and for the first half of the 20th century higher population than Alberta
I'd also add the political philosophies dictated development. With oil development Alberta has been very conservative & economically oriented while saskatchewan has been unique as a very socialist province up until the mid 2000s. It's also the home of Tommy Douglas who implemented the first single payer universal health care system in North America. Till this day Saskatchewan still has a very large union presence as well as government owned utilities such as saskpower, sask energy, saskwater & other government owned utilities.
Apparently, a referendum was held on whether the main electrical utilities should be nationalized in Alberta back in the 1940's. It was narrowly defeated. This allowed for deregulation 50 years later, which is considered by many to have been a mistake.
@@Sacto1654indeed, one of the reasons we voted in socialist governments in those days was because neither Ottawa nor private investors were interested in serving the province’s needs
@@aidanwotherspoon905 During the Great Depression there were doctors that had to go on welfare. Everybody in their community was too poor to afford a doctor so the doctor could not make money. Today it is hard to believe but some doctors made more money under socialism than capitalism. Try telling that to an American.
I immigrated from Iraq to Saskatchewan in 2018. I’ve chosen SK home since then because in my view, the SK people are the most friendly, hospitable, and respectful people I’ve ever seen. Secondly, the SK Sky is just mesmerizing. I’m in love with the “ Land of Living Skies” province. P.S I’ve travelled to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia but I still returned back to SK 😁
My grandpa was from Saskatchewan but my dad grew up in Red Deer, I was born and raised in Calgary AB. Economic reasons drive people to Alberta, but it’s also considerably warmer. Saskatchewan gets insanely cold. Alberta can, too, but southern Alberta has a more reasonable climate overall. Now I live in southern Vancouver Island so the climate is extremely moderate. The humidity is super refreshing and I feel like I can breathe better at sea level, but I’ll always love the prairies where I was raised.
Manitoba: It's the gateway between west and east, but plane travel made it redundant for passengers. Also multiple large lakes and Hudson's Bay makes it hard to expand northward. It may see a renewal if they open up the bay for shipping, but who knows.
Excellent analysis! I did have to chuckle when the "before Europeans came" section was accompanied by a picture of a native riding a horse to hunt a bison though.
I'm actually driving to Manitoba and Saskatchewan as part of a road trip next month. Trying to get to all 13 Canadian provinces, and they will be #9 and 10.
@niubi42069 already been to those two. Yellowknife was awesome as well, along with Quebec and NS. I know it will be boring as hell. One night in each and then back down.
I’m from Manitoba, moved to Alberta. My mother’s family is from Saskatchewan. Alberta and Saskatchewan both have 2 ‘large’ cities with very similar populations to each other. This would be Calgary and Edmonton, & Saskatoon and Regina. Winnipeg is larger than Saskatoon and Regina combined. Very good video, according to a Canadian who lives in Calgary.
manitoba is MUCH older (1870) than the other two prairies provinces and although it has the largest cut of the aspen parkland region (some of the ritchest soil in the entire world being the same type of soil as ukraine which has for centuries been the bread basket of europe) it is more well known for it's history and for it's bustling transportation center having railroads from almost every major us and canadian city basically making it the transportation hivemind of north america and being directly inbetween the atlantic and pacific oceans giving it a strategic location to connect your railway to as the canadian pacific ran through canada all the way to the west making american railways want to connect coming from an albertan
I am an immigrant coming from Brazil currently living in Canada. Over almost 6 years, I've lived in 5 different cities, including Edmonton, Calgary, and Saskatoon. I recommend any of these cities to live. They are good cities to live and to find options. I really enjoyed my time in each of them, but my favorite city is Calgary.
@billfarley9167 I rather ignore your stupid comment. You obviously haven't even left the borders of your own province to make this kind of comment. First of all, I was not even comparing Brazil to any country. Second, I advise you to apply for your passport to travel to other countries and continents sometime to start seeing different places. Note: FYI, passport it's an international travel document that allows you to leave your home country. Some countries require visa to enter. But that's a conversation for another time. Too much information for your brain. Have a good day.
@billfarley9167 I rather ignore your comment. You obviously haven't even left the borders of your own province to make this type of comment. First, I was not even comparing Brazil to any country. Second, I advise you to apply for your passport to travel internationally sometime and see different places. PS: passport is a travel document fyi. And some countries require visa to enter. But let's leave this topic for another time, it's too much information for your brain. Have a good day! 😉
I grew up Saskatoon, moved to Calgary in 2000 and been here ever since. Saskatoons downtown (and Regina’s) feels unsafe. Alberta government paid for me to go back to school to upgrade my high school with living expenses. I then graduated SAIT as an electrical technologist and now run my own company. Saskatchewan just does not have those opportunities. At least they didn’t 25 years ago.
I’m from saskatoon and been to Calgary a few times and I feel Calgarys downtown feels way more sketchy lmao. Regina too. People say Saskatoon is really dangerous for the size of city that is it but I’ve never really felt unsafe or in danger in my city
I am disappointed there is NO MENTION of Palliser's Triangle. This semi-arid area of both the southern parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta makes for a challenge that most of us from the U.S. don't understand. I am aware of this because I had a great aunt and her husband settle in the middle of it, Golden Prairie, SK. This is 2 hours north of the Montana border and my contact there says they have been in a multi-year drought, not uncommon for that area. Initially it was felt this are should NOT be farmed because it was so dry.
I agree about the triangle. I live there and it is hard to believe we are still trying to act as though it is lush Farm land. The Great Sand hills are here because itt t is so dry and arid. South Saskatchewan has a history of settlement, and then abandonment, as the towns burned down from grass fires, farms were lost to drought, and equipment loans from the bank lost the farm. My family farmed here since 1891, and we’re not able to keep any of the land on all four branches of our family (great grandparents). There is very little wildlife left as well, no longer a natural resource. But the sunsets are very beautiful!
Alberta also has farmland almost to the North West a Territory border and north west into BC around Grand Prairie. North of Prince Albert Saskatchewan begins to turn to dense wetlands and main roads stop shortly.
SK has discovered oil now too, the south east is part of the shale oil deposit with ND, there is oil on the border with AB in Lloydminster, both being active and then there is the huge deposit of oil sands in the north west that are almost entirely untapped And SK has discovered large amounts of natural gas
Also worth mentioning that Saskatchewan's larger population centres are based on supporting extraction of oil, gas, coal, uranium and potash rather than supporting farmers. (Farming centres such as Assiniboia, Kindersley or Maple Creek are all relatively small when compared to other Saskatchewan cities and towns).
Used to live in libau.... Key word there, I have 10 friends all have left for mostly BC, ON, one was crazy ended up in Saskatchewan sooooo apparently anywhere is better then Manitoba XD Manitoba is the literally the middle of Canada it's both western and eastern. Even the USA border crossing is abit of a joke there.
Also The Chinook Belt (Generally Extending To The Red Deer River Valley & The Cypress Hills) Made Winters More Bearable (Albeit More Unpredictable) In Alberta.
Canadians are tough when it comes to winters. (unless you're from Toronto) I don't think it was weather that dictated where Albertans settled. If the jobs are there and the economy is good, they will come.
A good part of the southern part of Alberta is much heavier populated than Saskatchewan, because of access to irrigation water, where it its badly needed. This has spurred feedlots and high value crops and secondary processing. In Sask the irrigation water is further north where it isn't needed as much.
I'm Cree, and my ancestors built a community around the CP rail hundred years ago because it was a resource line which aided my people to grow exponentially but still far behind from modern age
@@iem123ya I think he doesn’t know Canada well, you can tell by the way he says Saskatchewan. And anyone who went to school learns the 3 prairie provinces are MB SK and AB
By the time settlers started arriving to the prairie lands formerly known as Rupert's Land, the American tribes and settlers had already almost exterminated the bison. There were very few non First Nations people living in what is now called Alberta and Saskatchewan -- the Hudson Bay employees kept to their forts and hosted visiting chiefs who arrived with quite a bit of fanfare to trade once or twice a year. (It should also be noted that the Hudson Bay employees were absolutely NOT allowed to trade in whisky, despite this sometimes being desired over metal, fabric, sugar and flour by First Nations leaders). While the killing of the Bison who migrated yearly from the south was obviously detrimental to the peoples living in the prairie area, it was an after effect of both overhunting and a calculated decision to remove these huge roaming herds for the purposes of agriculture and permanent settlement in the USA. Neither the earlier and rather small "Canada" colony that existed in Eastern Canada, far from any Bison, nor the many northern peoples who relied on Bison had very much to do with it.
As a Person who was born, Raised in Saskatchewan, and lived in Alberta, the host on this video is right and wrong. Economic factors is the biggest reason why there is a great difference between provinces in population. but there are other reasons that need to be taken into account. Political Ideology is another reason. Although Saskatchewan in recent years is considered to be a Conservative/Right-Wing province now. In the past, it was considered to be an extremely Socialist/Left-Wing in it's foundation. To some degree, it's still has some Socialist implementation to this day. The O&G matters of Alberta is kind of a myth. Alberta is still a O&G Mecca, it's fully relies on Tar Sands oil projects. Saskatchewan has more accessible O&G industry, many companies do not want to establish roots in Saskatchewan for Prejudicial reasons.
@@matthewbarabas3052 My personal belief is that much of this Anti-Corporation resentment originated from Tommy Douglas being premier of Saskatchewan. Tommy Douglas was very much an Anti-Corporation in his ideology. His belief is that if the province required a corporation, it should be a Crown Corporstion only. The reasonfor this is that he didn't want the Saskatchewan Government to be subordinate to any Major Multinational Corporation. Regina could have been what Calgary is today because many Corporations, including Muilti-National Corporations (MNC) wanted to plant roots in Regina. Douglas wouldn't allow it.
@@crazystewart34i bet he could look at calgary today, see how well off and safe and livable is, and the look at his own shithole small city of regina, and consider his anti corperation policies worth it.
We don't typically use the term "tribes" in Canada. The technical equivalent today is "bands", but in the context it was used in the video, you can just say "nations".
Just a note on pronunciation for the tribes since they're kind of odd, Saulteux sounds like so-toe/so-doe said quickly with a lazy dt sound and metis comes from french and sounds like may-tee, but good attempts and good video!
Suggestion: There are Canadian Provinces where at least half their population live in just one metro area: Metro Vancouver, BC Gtr Winnipeg, Manitoba Gtr Montreal, Quebec Gtr Charlottetown, PEI Halifax Regional District, NS
the only way Saskatchewan will catch up to Alberta, is if more of the world adopts nuclear power, either thorium, or uranium. Alberta grew so much more rapidly due to its oil reserves. If the world adopts nuclear, then that dynamic shifts to Saskatchewan, considering Saskatchewan alone has the 5th largest supply of thorium in the world, and puts Canada at #4 when including the rest of Canada, and over 60% of Canada's Uranium is in Saskatchewan, with an unusually high supply of naturally occurring enriched uranium or U-238.
For years the NDP governement shut out economic development in Saskatchewan. All the kids left the province for careers. It's hard to grow a province when all the youth leave. These days after a decade of political shift to economically supportive government (i.e., not the NDP), Saskatchewan (like Alberta) is a wonderful place to live.
The population of Saskatoon is not 100k larger than Regina. The most recent government census put Regina at around 300K and Saskatoon at 335k. The bedroom communities around Regina are more spread out while the bedroom communities of Saskatoon are closer to the city due to the river valley giving a higher density.
The soil in the plains is not fertile and often requires significant irrigation to grow more than grass. Look up 'Palliser's Triangle' and that this area was determined to be not suitable for habitation. Geographically to me at least the Cypress Hills which straddles the southern border of AB and SK is the most interesting part of Saskatchewan. The Cypress Hills has the highest elevation east of the Rockies and a unique biome
The plains around MJ/Regina are very fertile but are at the mercy of the weather to provide the right amount of rain during the growing season. When I lived there, (5 decades past) the soil was very black and nutrient rich because of millennia of the annual grass growing, dying and decomposing to form compost. Requiring irrigation does not mean the land is not fertile.
The northern part of Sask, like northern Manitoba is made from the exposed bedrock of the Canadian shield with muskeg in the pockets ... THAT is the main geographical difference ... and so has very few ways to profit from that starkness.
Originally Saskatchewan and Alberta was going to be one province called Buffalo. The federal government changed its mind at the last minute because they felt the province would be to big and as a result to powerful and created Saskatchewan and Alberta. Recently there has been talk of the provinces joining forces as both feel they get treated poorly compared to their eastern provinces. Both provinces have their positives and negatives. I’m born and raised Calgarian but my wife was born in Regina so I have a pretty good sense of what makes each province different. Great video!
Saskatchewan & Alberta combine is still smaller than Quebec in size & population. The federal government didn't care much about Quebec until the referendum/separatist movement. BQ also holds a lot of power by having 30+ MPs & during minority government it can work with either main party to have a majority during votes.
@@BananaBlooD9517Funny, considering they made Quebec as big as it is now seven years after splitting the western area literally in half to make sure the West couldn't gain too much power. Since Laurier, at least, the country has always (begrudgingly) given more influence/land/etc to Quebec. The West they hoped would never ask for anything and mostly run itself while simultaneously never wanting independance of any kind. It's a paradox, I know.
@@Colton-el4mp If the federal government didn't care about the west then why did it built the rail road?? Why did they invest time & money to get immigrants to move there. At best the federal government made concessions to Quebec so it wouldn't revolt & break the country
@@BananaBlooD9517 It cared about the west as a way to make money. They wanted settlers there to farm cash crops. They built the railroad because it's hard to become an agricultural powerhouse with no way to get wheat out of the prairies (also to make concrete claims over North America lest the US take what was left).
@@BananaBlooD9517 Hard to become an agricultural powerhouse with no way to move grain (plus it allowed the Brits to have concrete claims over the land as it was afraid the US would just take it). Also hard to farm cash crops if there's no one there to raise them. And it wasn't like the land was a free gift. The settlers would come and essentially gamble $10 (in that time's money) that they could successfully farm the land. Essentially, they had a year to have a certain amount of acres growing or livestock producing and a permanent structure or the feds would kick them off the land and give it to someone else.
Sask is a dustbowl. The water in Regina is red. Don't drink it. It was Flint ted. Manitoba is also a Prairie Province. We survived Hudson Bay smallpox blankets when they tried to kill us. Prairie people are survivors! Life is harsh. Winters are so cold. Survivors. You have no idea.
Half a century head start on Oil & Gas development. Saskatchewan DOES have a significant O&G Sector now, but certainly smaller and newer. Until the Great Depression, Saskatchewan was the third most populated province in the country.
Hi Geoff. I live in the Southern part of Saskatchewan. I am a bit put off by how you compared Alberta to Saskatchewan. Alberta is renowned for 2 major things. The Rocky Mountains and oil. You showed the Rocky Mountains as you were describing Saskatchewan. We have no Mountains. We have very flat prairies and oil too, cattle farms and a large forested region up north. We do have some deep valleys and long rivers. Alberta has cattle farms and ranches. The have some prairies but their mountain foothills extend into them.
I lived in Saskatchewan for forty years. The northern part is all boreal forest and lakes, lakes, lakes, left behind by the last ice age. It's one of the few places in the world you can find true wilderness. You can canoe there for days without seeing anone else, except perhaps the occassional Indian family going to tend their fishing nets. I never heard anyone say "Gee, I wish we had a few million more people here." One other thing not mentioned: the winters. Long stretches of -15C to -30C with a couple of -40C days thrown in. If you're not ready for that, don't go there between October and March.
Alberta produces nearly 4M barrels of oil per day. Texas produces 5.6M with 6x the population. The oil companies saw the landscape of Calgary and put headquarters there so they could look at that when they went home. They saw Edmonton and decided this would be an ok place to make smell bad with the oil processing. Water is extraordinarily limiting for both province's rural development. Especially with climate change on the horizon, water rights are being renegotiated because of long-term droughts.
Climate change lol the climate has been changing for many many years before us. How arrogant us humans are to think that we think the planet needs us to save her. l assure u she will be here for many many moons. I’m sure if she doesn’t want us here we wouldn’t be. Old saying goes” the only thing that stays the same is everything changes.” That includes the climate.
@@icetealover1158 One of the most ignorant takes I have ever read. You have simply highlighted how big an impact we actually have had. Look at actual data instead of just making baseless claims. Of course "the planet," will still be here. Humans may not be, very soon, not because "she doesn't want us here," but because we are too stupid to save ourselves. You said nothing, and you were still wrong.
@@CanCobb anyone who thinks we will go extinct because of climate change hasn't read the data. Wood burns if it's 30° or 32° you'll evacuate if a hurricane comes whether the wind is 300km/h or 320km/h, tip...if the water rises 3 ft over the next 100 years and your still alive take a few steps away from the shore. 😁
As a young Metis landlord from The Battlefords, Saskatchewan, I would say the current mass immigration to Alberta is because most newcomers are coming from countries with megacities so they prefer larger cities. So our small dinky Saskatchewan cities look like villages to them. Historically I would say the mass resettlement of First Nations and Metis people from other provinces to middle and northern Saskatchewan deterred mass European, Lebanese, Japanese, and Chinese immigration to the region, especially being that most towns were raided and burnt to the ground during the rebellion. This is all changing now as my city is being flooded with newcomers. Saskatchewan could have a population close to Alberta's size in a few decades if the housing crisis that hit the GTA and Lower Mainland hits the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor in the next 2 years. We have so many houses sitting empty in rural Saskatchewan cities just waiting to be filled.
On Saskatchewan's licence plates they should put the slogan "Closer to Square than anywhere" for two reasons, the second of which is because of the rectangular shape of the province...you already know the first reason.
I come from Saskatchewan. Born and raised in Saskatoon. I had a young family and desperately searched for a job where I could earn enough to support my family. I was told that Alberta had a booming economy and so I moved my family to Edmonton. I went on a job search in Edmonton. Walked into the first place on my list of places to try. My feet almost literally did not touch the ground until I was hired and in uniform. Alberta has been good to me. Moving out of Saskatoon, on crossing the border into Alberta via Lloyminster there was a sign that said: "Would the last one out of Saskatchewan please turn out the lights." Sadly, that sign really was there. I could not buy a job in Saskatchewan in the early 1970s. That should answer WHY people were leaving Saskatchewan at that time.
I was born and raised in Edmonton, and i really like our province. Earlier this year, i had to do a 3 week shift at in northern sask, 2 hours north of La Loch. I hope i dont have to do that drive again!
I remember watching Bugs Bunny on a Saturday morning, doing a magic trick: "Hocus pocus... Saskatoon, Saskatchewan!"... Haha, as a kid in Saskatoon I was knocked out!
Where’s the O in Saskatchewan? You’re switching the A for O at the end of the name. The way a Regina or Saskatoon resident would pronounce their province is to truncate the end and say “Saskatchewn”
Of all the channels that could possibly make the mistake of omitting Manitoba as a prairie province, it should not have been a geography channel. Inexcusable!
If you’re wanting to save tens of thousands of dollars per year(or more) then do what many other smart Canadians are doing!!! Saskatchewan currently has an influx of people moving here from BC, Ont and Alberta. Lower cost of living here vs those other provinces. Its also said that Sask may have more oil and gas then Alberta has. Much is yet to be discovered and likely wont be untill Alberta nears closer to being tapped out.
Oklahoma and Texas come to mind as well. Saskatchewan has a small rivalry with Manitoba but Alberta is just on a different level and is more concerned with comparing itself to B.C. and being a national presence for 'the West'.
Manitoba is more of a prairie province than Alberta which has mostly a very different landscape so your report is incomplete at best when you consider also that the population of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are quite close.
Liked and previously subscribed. Did you exclude Manitoba as a prairie province on purpose to boost comments to help with the algorithms? I've never before heard that Manitoba is not a prairie province.
Saskatchewan has plenty of beauty, my favorite is all the big lakes that offer great fishing. I'm originally from Flin Flon Manitoba a town on the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border. ❤ Cheers from 2 Canadians 🇨🇦 living in Mexico. 🇲🇽🥰✌🏼
I was born in Saskatchewan, but my family moved to Alberta when I was 10 years old. By the way, I assumed that Manitoba was also considered a prairie province.
Why is Manitoba not considered a Prairie Province? Suggestions for future videos; why western China is empty, and why Russia east of the Urals is so sparsely populated.
As a Saskatchewan person born and raised here I'd say the brutal winters and extremely high taxes in Saskatchewan. And it's only getting worse with government wasteful spending so taxes keep going up.
@@mark72141 I totally agree. I heard a former Sask party member actually say a quote from Scott Moe. She said behind closed doors that Saskatchewan conservative voters have zero choices... It's him (Moe) or nobody. He has conservatives forced to choose between him or a liberal or NDP and that is voters only choices. So yes I agree our provincial premier sucks in a big way... Personally I think he is far more libtard than conservative. Edit: I forgot to mention that another UA-cam video about Saskatchewan politics had a politician in our province mention Scott Moe was running a deficit for Saskatchewan that was larger per capita than Justin Trudeau's insane national debt. Which proves just how bad our Sask Party truely is.
I spent 17 years of my adult life as an immigrant in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I moved to Victoria, Vancouver Island BC in my late 60s because of a milder climate in contrast to Saskatchewan's frigid weather conditions during winter months.
I used to live in Saskatchewan and have recently moved to Alberta. There aren’t many jobs here, and the rent for housing is expensive. There aren’t many job opportunities, and it's also winter, so the roads are not easily passable due to snow.
In the 1941 federal census Saskatchewan counted almost 900,000 residents while Alberta numbered almost 800,000 … after that came the end of WWII & the Oil BOOM for Alberta!!
Technically Manitoba is also considered a prairie province.
Only the bottom third of the province, though.
@@Sacto1654 I mean that’s true but by that logic neither Sask nor Alberta are prairie provinces either lol since they are also only ~1/3 prairie
Came here to say this lol
Actually, not just technically.
You beat me to this fact.
As a Canadian and an Albertan I need to add that Manitoba is considered a prairie province by all the people I've known here.
Yep, this is taught in school.
Thank you
Oh, who the hell is this guy? The very first thing he did was to strike Manitoba of the Canadian prairie province list. Pft.
We would be better off a separate country
Yet not a part of this comparison
Just completely cut Manitoba out of a prairie video, crazy.
Hahaha they have nothing to offer
As a Saskatchewanian, Manitoba being the one forgotten makes me feel a little vindicated lol.
We really do appreciate Manitoba over here though: it means we don't border Ontario.
Manitoba is a dump. If it wasn't for money from the government they wouldn't be able to pay the bills or keep their lights on.
They are now woke as f***.
Moved from Winnipeg 10 years ago and will never go back.
All my friends are now shaved head communists. Manitoba is a socialist s*** hole
Manitoba has far less prairie in comparison to Alberta and Sask though. Alberta and BC have some of the most northern farmland in the world, Manitoba transitions out of prairie much further south.
@@justsam7919 culturally, Manitoba is 100% “prairie”. Is the northern part of the province prairie? No, but neither is Saskatchewan. And the reason Alberta likely has farms far further north isn’t necessarily due to “being a prairie landscape” it’s due to Alberta having significantly more people than Manitoba and Saskatchewan combined meaning that more land was cleared for farming than either Manitoba or Sask. The key point here is culturally there are 3 prairie provinces and considering 90% of manitobas live within the range that would be considered “prairie” it should have been included
as a saskatchwan farmer ...its wheat canola and pulse crops
we dont mind having a low population we like open spaces
Alberta has open spaces while still being a better place to live on average
I agree, I live in Saskatchewan and the space is beautiful.
I'm working in Ontario now on shutdown, I hate it here.
Way too close and congested.
@@MrJoeSomebody
Spoken like a true redneck Albertan.
@@MrJoeSomebody oh gawd. grow up. its not always a competition. you sound like one of those people who would believe that Canadian cites are actually high on the list of best places in the world to live and brag about it.
Actually we’re l live is number five on best places to live in North America, google it, so yes some cities in Canada are great to live in.
I used to live in Moose Jaw briefly for work. One night at the bar, I had a chat with a farmer guy. He said he is a third-generation Italian Canadian. When his grandparents moved to Saskatchewan, they moved with another 26 families, all from Italy. They took some lands near Moose Jaw and cultivated them into farmlands, raised cattle, etc. After three generations, he is the only person still staying on the family farm out of all the offspring from those 26 families. Everybody else, including his children, has moved to other cities or provinces. This dude taught me valuable knowledge about discerning different types of beef. I bought him a drink as a return of favor.
can't survive as a farmer anymore is a large part of it. My uncle after farming for a full year often barely made above minimum wage , hard to sell that to people now.
I’m first generation Italian Canadian from Toronto and didn’t know that about the farmers but it makes sense. My dad’s relatives in Italy have all stopped farming too and moved to bigger cities 😢 Whose going to farm these days?
@@devadii24 People who love it, or more than likely all the centennial farms will get bought out by rather large corporate farms and then they'll sell us our food for whatever they feel like. There's a lot of really messed up stuff going on with farming, like say how all the modern farming equipment can't really be easily serviced by the farmers anymore, the anti repair aspect. And the other part is why John Deere equipment reads the farmers yield data, and keeps that information. Wouldn't be surprised if Deere then turns around and sells that data to "investors" who then speculate on the food market.
sure isn't true of many,
@@BType13X2 ha,ha,ha it depends how much land one has, how much help one has and how hard one wants to work, many are doing very well
Just a few points:
-Manitoba is also a prairie province
-Saulteaux is pronounced "So Tow"
-Métis is "May Tee"
-Potash is "Pot Ash"
-Tons of Albertans are actually from Saskatchewan. Many moved there for better economic opportunities because of the politics, use of resources, lower taxes, etc. compared to Sask.
Thanks for making this.
In "métis" the s is pronounced
In French
@@slamdoozle Métis=lazy welfare collectors
As an Albertan, it's oil... And the politics? The spice must flow...
Saskatchewan used to be a socialist paradise in the Tommy Douglas days, but now it’s probably even more conservative than Alberta is.
Just imagine if the Oilers win a Cup with McDavid.
@@bjdon99they foolishly let the buses die off fools.
@@maxpowr90 nothing will change. Edmontonians will get more arrogant and drunk, Flames fans will drink even more, life will go on.
@@th3oryO That 50/50 raffle though. Just think of it! No surprise why the Oilers arena is attached to a Casino.
As an American, the most disappointing thing I ever learned about Canada is that Saskatchewan's name had nothing to do with Sasquatch.
Sasquatchewan
Bruh 💀💀
Well there are no Sasquatch sightings there
@@TheCanadianBoeing787-10 maybe up north of province
@@draganbuhanovich6411 nope
Ur wrong bc I am an actual western canadian
People from outside western Canada call it SaskatcheWAAAN. We pronounce it Saskatchewin, with very little emphasis on the win.
Totally agree!! Was just about to comment on that
@@shaunae2470 Also little emphasis on the AS at the start. More like Skatchewin.
as a former Sask resident, Geoff pronounced it correctly
@@keithng2517 as a current sask resident, i was gonna say what the hell is this comment string about, he pronounced it perfectly. but potash, however, hahaha
Poe-tash suppose to be paw-tash. Well at least he pronounced Sask capital Regina correctly. I heard New York people pronounce it incorrectly.
0:00 AND Manitoba too
Yeah I was wondering there.
this is Manitoba erasure
Came here to say this
Lol, just typical, I live in a prairie province that doesn’t exist. I should be sooooo used to this, sigh.
To Liberalize to part of the west
Born and raised in Saskatchewan. Back in the socialist days of the NDP rule in Saskatchewan, the joke was ' last one to leave Saskatchewan, turn off the lights '. Many, many Saskatchewanians left for the work and money of the oilpatch in Alberta. At my 10 year highschool reunion in 1994, 170 graduates out of a class of 268 were in Alberta.
That’s because the Métis population has the province booming so well or is it m metis? Lmfao
That was the and this is now. For my money, bring back democratic socialism in Saskatchewan.
Alberta needs to leave Kommunist Kanada. Saskatchewan should leave as well.
@@createone100 so that the next educated generation can leave. Thats what you get with socialism. I graduated B Comm at U of S in 1985. Most of my class left for Alberta, Vancouver, or Toronto.. Staying was not an option if you wanted a decent job and it was 100% the result of socialism.
@@kneedeepinit Well,I have 3 degrees, one of which is a Masters. I stayed and made a good career and life here. I am retired now, with a comfortable pension, although I would love to not have to put up with Moe and the Sask. Party. Saskatchewan is a well-kept secret, and I love that people stay away. However, a great many immigrants seem to be coming here and starting businesses.
When I was living in Washington one of the family friends who was a long haul truck driver would take my brother and then myself on some of his trips. I remember going on one of these long haul trips to North Battleford Saskatchewan. It was during this time that for the first time I saw the Northern Lights the Aurora Borealis. It was an incredible experience. It looked liked ribbons of multi-colored light and it could be heard as the crackling and buzzing you hear next to a power station.
As someone from Saskatchewan, it’s pretty obvious and can be summed up in one word: oil (lol)
Edit: to be fair he does mention this in his video. Good video might I add, all pretty accurate
Yup - Alberta’s population would be like Montana otherwise.
No, it’s because alberta has actual land features besides one big piece of flat land. Have you ever heard of banff? That’s why nobody goes to sask. it’s deadly boring
@@niubi42069I live in Calgary - love Bannf. But Montana has amazing mountains too - how many people live there? Heck - Edmonton has almost same population as Calgary but it’s a long drive from mountains. It’s all about oil.
And Saskatchewan I heard found its own Oil sands as well.
@@niubi42069 that’s the secondary reason. I love the Banff/Canmore area, if I had enough money I’d probably move there lol. But it’s definitely not the only reason, or as mkyou mentioned Montana and Wyoming would be more populous than Saskatchewan and they aren’t really. Heck, even Edmonton is not near the mountains. Most of Alberta is exactly like Saskatchewan, except for more oil
Edit: also PS not all of Sask is flat. Only about the bottom 1/4 of it is. The northern part of the province has a lot of trees.
Shouldn’t Manitoba feel slighted for not also being included as a Prairie Province?
Manitoba doesn’t even exist.
@@JesusFriedChrist What are you talking about, i'm literally stuck here LOL
@@JesusFriedChristwhy would you feel the need to say this? So weird
@@JesusFriedChrist good the less people that come here the better.
Yes
We Metis arent generally considered First Nations. We're Indigenous but distinct from First Nations. We also have a sizeable population in Saskatchewan with the core of our homeland being the Red River in Manitoba. We also have folks in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, northwestern Ontario, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana.
This has always seemed like a grey area that differs, not just from place to place but person to person as well. I'm half English/Scottish and half gwich'in. I've never been told I'm Metis outside of social studies class and all my family just considers me gwich'in. Same goes for anyone else I know who's part indigenous or First Nations. They never say they're Metis, they say what group they're connected to. It doesn't matter if they're 25% Cree or half Ojibwe. If they're connected, that's what they are.
@canucklhead6230 Lower-case m metis is just somebody who is mixed-race and a lot of Canadian social studies books get this wrong. Capital M Metis (Michif/Red River Metis and the group the video is referring to) is more than just half First Nations and half European, though. You're probably not Metis. It requires connection to the Métis Nation in the Prairies, self ID as Metis, and acceptance as Metis by the Métis Nation. There's a lot of misinformation about who is and isn't Metis, either definitions tend to be far too broad (any mixed First Nations and European) or exclude the Anglo-Metis (First Nations and French ancestry).
I'm Metis and have Cree, Saulteaux Ojibwe, and Scottish ancestry.
I asked two guys that I met in Alberta if they were indigenous. Their response was we're Métis.
@canucklhead6230 It's not a grey area. For example, my friends daughter is a recognized member of a Fist Nation Band, but also has Métis ancestry. If she wanted to be a recognized member of the Métis Nation though, she would have to renounce her First Nation Status and choose to Identify as Métis. Even if you can claim membership in either, you only get to pick one.
@@zepher664it's just all to get paid . She can identify how ever she wants off of paper .
Good ol' Saskatchewan. As a kid in Canada we had a joke about the province: it's so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days. Kidding aside, I am surprised more was not discussed about the large influx of Ukrainians into the province. A lot of surnames with the suffix of 'chuck' come from there.
Yes, there are a lot of Ukrainians in Saskatchewan that’s for sure lol. I live there and I feel like I’m one of the only people without Ukrainian heritage sometimes lol
*usually -chuk, not -chuck
I live in Regina. Half the population is Indian (like India Indian, not first nations)
I think the Canadian Shield consuming more of Saskatchewan has an impact as well.
It's mostly that I'd say. Less arable land for homesteading in the early days of settlement
Good point, (and not mentioned), the Canadian Shield restricts SK farm lands and population to the lower 35/40% of SK.. Even more so in Manitoba. AB not so much.
The shield takes even more of Manitoba, yet we have always had more people than SK. And we are less spread out, too. Pretty concentrated in the south.
The shield doesn't start until the halfway mark up the province.
Much of the farmland below the north sask river was cleared by settlers and once you get North of the river the forests become much more dense. 50 km north of the river and the farmland is almost all gone. Farmland does go farther north along the western border of the province but the forests there are more poplar and willow. I think it has more to do with the effort required to clear the land than where the shield starts.
@@DannyyerushalayimManitoba also has way more water than sask.
Saskatchewan had a bigger population than Alberta until the Second World War
Saskatchewan was the third most populous province before the Second World War.
@@gregschell1094 Third ahead of even BC? Dubious.
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_of_Canada_by_province_and_territory#/media/File:Canada_Historical_Population_Bump_Chart_no_signature.svg
Ya, the population has grown very slowly. In 1931 the population was 921,785. 75 years later in 2006 it was still below a million at 985,386. It's grown a fair bit since then though and is now 1,231,043.
Manitoba is pouting now. Métis = mayTEE. Potash = POTash. Saskatchewan is also the only province that rejects Daylight Savings. Saskatoon is whitespeak from the Cree word 'Mis-sask-quah-too-mina' berry tree, that are similar to blueberries. Hoodies are called bunnyhugs. Alberta has oil but Sask has the One Red Paperclip.
Actually, Saskatchewan set their clocks one hour ahead in April of 1975 and left them there. We have had Permanent Daylight time for the last 49 years. Well, not quite true, the eastern third of SK is in the Central Time zone, so they are on Permanent Central Time. The western 2/3 is in the Mountain Time zone so has been on Permanent Mountain Daylight time since 1975.
RED PAPERCLIP MENTIONED
@@Rancid-Jane this is false, the entirety of Saskatchewan is on central standard time year round. Which means for half the year they are central and half the year they are mountain time. The entire province (with exceptions to Lloydminister since it’s a border town) is always the same time zone.
@@Rancid-Jane ah really, I didn't know that! I would like perma-DL in Alberta.
@@lynb1022 It works very well. Unfortunately many people in Sask no longer remember that this happened.
Sask has near the same population as its Manitoba neighbor,and more than it''s southern neighbors of Montana,Wyoming and the Dakota States and much more than it's northern NWT neighbor and for the first half of the 20th century higher population than Alberta
I'd also add the political philosophies dictated development. With oil development Alberta has been very conservative & economically oriented while saskatchewan has been unique as a very socialist province up until the mid 2000s. It's also the home of Tommy Douglas who implemented the first single payer universal health care system in North America. Till this day Saskatchewan still has a very large union presence as well as government owned utilities such as saskpower, sask energy, saskwater & other government owned utilities.
Given its very small population to province size, government-own utilities are actually kind of a must.
Apparently, a referendum was held on whether the main electrical utilities should be nationalized in Alberta back in the 1940's. It was narrowly defeated. This allowed for deregulation 50 years later, which is considered by many to have been a mistake.
@@Sacto1654indeed, one of the reasons we voted in socialist governments in those days was because neither Ottawa nor private investors were interested in serving the province’s needs
You don't have to vote socialist to think public utilities are effective.
@@aidanwotherspoon905 During the Great Depression there were doctors that had to go on welfare. Everybody in their community was too poor to afford a doctor so the doctor could not make money. Today it is hard to believe but some doctors made more money under socialism than capitalism. Try telling that to an American.
I immigrated from Iraq to Saskatchewan in 2018. I’ve chosen SK home since then because in my view, the SK people are the most friendly, hospitable, and respectful people I’ve ever seen. Secondly, the SK Sky is just mesmerizing. I’m in love with the “ Land of Living Skies” province.
P.S I’ve travelled to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia but I still returned back to SK 😁
Manitoba is a Prarie province as well
Could of fooled me they act more like the Eastern Canada
Haha true !
Leave it to the east to take claim of it😢there are useless! (Hand out) looking for a free hand out😂
Noone cares apparently
Manitoba isn't real
My grandpa was from Saskatchewan but my dad grew up in Red Deer, I was born and raised in Calgary AB. Economic reasons drive people to Alberta, but it’s also considerably warmer. Saskatchewan gets insanely cold. Alberta can, too, but southern Alberta has a more reasonable climate overall.
Now I live in southern Vancouver Island so the climate is extremely moderate. The humidity is super refreshing and I feel like I can breathe better at sea level, but I’ll always love the prairies where I was raised.
You live in sooke?
i wouldn’t call calgary the prairies. i’m neighboring 4 farms, and those farms neighbor farms. that’s the prairies
While winters in Alberta are significantly warmer than in Saskatchewan. Summers are way warmer in Saskatchewan.
And it snows in Calgary in June!
Good man.
Hey Geoff, you should do a video on Manitoba as well.
Manitoba: It's the gateway between west and east, but plane travel made it redundant for passengers. Also multiple large lakes and Hudson's Bay makes it hard to expand northward. It may see a renewal if they open up the bay for shipping, but who knows.
Excellent analysis! I did have to chuckle when the "before Europeans came" section was accompanied by a picture of a native riding a horse to hunt a bison though.
Europides were those first humans, brought horses to the American Continent!
I take it you have never read about our lord and savior Joseph Smith
@@maikotter9945Horses were not in the Americas before colonization or the Spanish. All wild horses in the Americas are escaped domestic horses
hahaha ya and he wrote a new version of the bible out of a hat. anyone that belives that, i have some magic beans to sell them
We've always needed to educate Americans.
I'm actually driving to Manitoba and Saskatchewan as part of a road trip next month. Trying to get to all 13 Canadian provinces, and they will be #9 and 10.
Don’t do it, it’s a waste of time, just go straight to the cool parts. BC and AB. The rest are literally useless
@niubi42069 already been to those two. Yellowknife was awesome as well, along with Quebec and NS.
I know it will be boring as hell. One night in each and then back down.
You'll love it!
10 provinces, 3 territories
@jtmachete yeah, thanks, I know. Been to one already (NWT).
For my experience, this part of Canada has the most hard-working, helpful people in all of the country.
I’m from Manitoba, moved to Alberta. My mother’s family is from Saskatchewan. Alberta and Saskatchewan both have 2 ‘large’ cities with very similar populations to each other. This would be Calgary and Edmonton, & Saskatoon and Regina. Winnipeg is larger than Saskatoon and Regina combined. Very good video, according to a Canadian who lives in Calgary.
These provinces have similar population ratios to Texas and Ohio but at obviously lower population rates.
nah i live in saskatoon, this city is tiny compared to calgary or edmonton.
manitoba is MUCH older (1870) than the other two prairies provinces and although it has the largest cut of the aspen parkland region (some of the ritchest soil in the entire world
being the same type of soil as ukraine which has for centuries been the bread basket of europe)
it is more well known for it's history and for it's bustling transportation center
having railroads from almost every major us and canadian city basically making it the transportation hivemind of north america
and being directly inbetween the atlantic and pacific oceans giving it a strategic location to connect your railway to
as the canadian pacific ran through canada all the way to the west making american railways want to connect
coming from an albertan
I am an immigrant coming from Brazil currently living in Canada. Over almost 6 years, I've lived in 5 different cities, including Edmonton, Calgary, and Saskatoon. I recommend any of these cities to live. They are good cities to live and to find options. I really enjoyed my time in each of them, but my favorite city is Calgary.
Anything is better than Brazil. Welcome to Canada.
@billfarley9167 I rather ignore your stupid comment. You obviously haven't even left the borders of your own province to make this kind of comment. First of all, I was not even comparing Brazil to any country. Second, I advise you to apply for your passport to travel to other countries and continents sometime to start seeing different places. Note: FYI, passport it's an international travel document that allows you to leave your home country. Some countries require visa to enter. But that's a conversation for another time. Too much information for your brain. Have a good day.
@billfarley9167 I rather ignore your comment. You obviously haven't even left the borders of your own province to make this type of comment. First, I was not even comparing Brazil to any country. Second, I advise you to apply for your passport to travel internationally sometime and see different places. PS: passport is a travel document fyi. And some countries require visa to enter. But let's leave this topic for another time, it's too much information for your brain. Have a good day! 😉
@@billfarley9167 Brazil is better nice weather
I grew up Saskatoon, moved to Calgary in 2000 and been here ever since. Saskatoons downtown (and Regina’s) feels unsafe. Alberta government paid for me to go back to school to upgrade my high school with living expenses. I then graduated SAIT as an electrical technologist and now run my own company. Saskatchewan just does not have those opportunities. At least they didn’t 25 years ago.
I’m from saskatoon and been to Calgary a few times and I feel Calgarys downtown feels way more sketchy lmao. Regina too. People say Saskatoon is really dangerous for the size of city that is it but I’ve never really felt unsafe or in danger in my city
I am disappointed there is NO MENTION of Palliser's Triangle. This semi-arid area of both the southern parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta makes for a challenge that most of us from the U.S. don't understand. I am aware of this because I had a great aunt and her husband settle in the middle of it, Golden Prairie, SK. This is 2 hours north of the Montana border and my contact there says they have been in a multi-year drought, not uncommon for that area. Initially it was felt this are should NOT be farmed because it was so dry.
You are correct.
@@Rancid-Jane yesterday and today we have gotten almost 4 “ of rain. This is. Rare happening in this semi desert. Medicine Hat, Alberta
@@dweisner9749 Record breaking rainfall for one day I heard.
I agree about the triangle. I live there and it is hard to believe we are still trying to act as though it is lush Farm land. The Great Sand hills are here because itt t is so dry and arid. South Saskatchewan has a history of settlement, and then abandonment, as the towns burned down from grass fires, farms were lost to drought, and equipment loans from the bank lost the farm. My family farmed here since 1891, and we’re not able to keep any of the land on all four branches of our family (great grandparents). There is very little wildlife left as well, no longer a natural resource. But the sunsets are very beautiful!
Gonna get worse as the South Sask River dries up over the next 100 years
Oil. The answer is oil.
@@docjoe86 Saskatchewan has lots of oil.
Oil & The Rockies
also, Alberta is one of the only places in the world that doesn’t have any rats
@@severalwolves trust me, that’s a lie, I’ve seen rats inside homes
Alberta also has farmland almost to the North West a Territory border and north west into BC around Grand Prairie. North of Prince Albert Saskatchewan begins to turn to dense wetlands and main roads stop shortly.
There are a couple roads that go way further to the mines in the north
Manitoba is also a prairie province.
Manitoba isn't real
SK has discovered oil now too, the south east is part of the shale oil deposit with ND, there is oil on the border with AB in Lloydminster, both being active and then there is the huge deposit of oil sands in the north west that are almost entirely untapped
And SK has discovered large amounts of natural gas
Also worth mentioning that Saskatchewan's larger population centres are based on supporting extraction of oil, gas, coal, uranium and potash rather than supporting farmers. (Farming centres such as Assiniboia, Kindersley or Maple Creek are all relatively small when compared to other Saskatchewan cities and towns).
@@canadagood And Saskatoon, where I live for 10 years is the mining center for Potash
Manitoba is a prairie province too.
They should try acting like part of the Western Canada then
@@peterbutz642we are pretencious enough, thanks.
Manitoba isn't real
Fake news
Used to live in libau.... Key word there, I have 10 friends all have left for mostly BC, ON, one was crazy ended up in Saskatchewan sooooo apparently anywhere is better then Manitoba XD Manitoba is the literally the middle of Canada it's both western and eastern. Even the USA border crossing is abit of a joke there.
Also The Chinook Belt (Generally Extending To The Red Deer River Valley & The Cypress Hills) Made Winters More Bearable (Albeit More Unpredictable) In Alberta.
i was never clear as to why winters are considered unbearable, with heated interiors, and you only go outside to go from point A to B anyway.
Canadians are tough when it comes to winters. (unless you're from Toronto) I don't think it was weather that dictated where Albertans settled. If the jobs are there and the economy is good, they will come.
@@billfarley9167 im a wimp in summers, though. stupid heat.
A good part of the southern part of Alberta is much heavier populated than Saskatchewan, because of access to irrigation water, where it its badly needed. This has spurred feedlots and high value crops and secondary processing. In Sask the irrigation water is further north where it isn't needed as much.
You really going to diss Manitoba like that? Manitoba is also a prairie province and to not include it is wrong and misleading.
Watching this video and the montage of Edmonton starts to roll including the office tower that I'm currently sitting in watching this video.
You completely omitted the most beautiful (in my estimation) province, Manitoba. Canada’s best kept secret is Manitoba’s north.
great video. Something I felt missing was a graphic showing the population growth of each province over time.
He also forgot to mention Manitoba who is part of the prairies
I'm Cree, and my ancestors built a community around the CP rail hundred years ago because it was a resource line which aided my people to grow exponentially but still far behind from modern age
I always thought Manitoba was a prairie province. I guess there's too much water there.
It is a prairie province, the video guy either misspoke/forgot or doesn’t know Canada very well
Don't worry your not crazy the guy who made the video is lol
@@iem123ya I think he doesn’t know Canada well, you can tell by the way he says Saskatchewan. And anyone who went to school learns the 3 prairie provinces are MB SK and AB
Manitoba isn't real
@@iem123 Or is not a Cdn !
By the time settlers started arriving to the prairie lands formerly known as Rupert's Land, the American tribes and settlers had already almost exterminated the bison. There were very few non First Nations people living in what is now called Alberta and Saskatchewan -- the Hudson Bay employees kept to their forts and hosted visiting chiefs who arrived with quite a bit of fanfare to trade once or twice a year. (It should also be noted that the Hudson Bay employees were absolutely NOT allowed to trade in whisky, despite this sometimes being desired over metal, fabric, sugar and flour by First Nations leaders). While the killing of the Bison who migrated yearly from the south was obviously detrimental to the peoples living in the prairie area, it was an after effect of both overhunting and a calculated decision to remove these huge roaming herds for the purposes of agriculture and permanent settlement in the USA. Neither the earlier and rather small "Canada" colony that existed in Eastern Canada, far from any Bison, nor the many northern peoples who relied on Bison had very much to do with it.
As a Person who was born, Raised in Saskatchewan, and lived in Alberta, the host on this video is right and wrong. Economic factors is the biggest reason why there is a great difference between provinces in population. but there are other reasons that need to be taken into account. Political Ideology is another reason. Although Saskatchewan in recent years is considered to be a Conservative/Right-Wing province now. In the past, it was considered to be an extremely Socialist/Left-Wing in it's foundation. To some degree, it's still has some Socialist implementation to this day.
The O&G matters of Alberta is kind of a myth. Alberta is still a O&G Mecca, it's fully relies on Tar Sands oil projects. Saskatchewan has more accessible O&G industry, many companies do not want to establish roots in Saskatchewan for Prejudicial reasons.
"Saskatchwanic Socialist Peoples Republic"
there had to be more than just prejudice, though. there had to be another, much more important reason. maybe its too costly.
@@matthewbarabas3052 My personal belief is that much of this Anti-Corporation resentment originated from Tommy Douglas being premier of Saskatchewan. Tommy Douglas was very much an Anti-Corporation in his ideology. His belief is that if the province required a corporation, it should be a Crown Corporstion only. The reasonfor this is that he didn't want the Saskatchewan Government to be subordinate to any Major Multinational Corporation.
Regina could have been what Calgary is today because many Corporations, including Muilti-National Corporations (MNC) wanted to plant roots in Regina. Douglas wouldn't allow it.
@@crazystewart34i bet he could look at calgary today, see how well off and safe and livable is, and the look at his own shithole small city of regina, and consider his anti corperation policies worth it.
@@crazystewart34 And that took guts.
The prairie provinces include Manitoba. If you have ever been to Manitoba you would know why.
Maybe try being part of western Canada then
Explain? Western provinces have ndp and conservative leadership like manitoba. Never liberal. @@ryans413
Manitoba isn't real
We don't typically use the term "tribes" in Canada. The technical equivalent today is "bands", but in the context it was used in the video, you can just say "nations".
you can call them savages
Not much more savage than the Europeans @@AverageCanadianStinky
@@AverageCanadianStinky that's one of the things I call them.
Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba make up Canada's prairie provinces.
Except alberta has mountains
You make Canada sounds interesting. It is such an amazing feat and now I want to learn more about Canada
Just a note on pronunciation for the tribes since they're kind of odd, Saulteux sounds like so-toe/so-doe said quickly with a lazy dt sound and metis comes from french and sounds like may-tee, but good attempts and good video!
Grew up in BC, have lived in Alberta for the past 10 years, enjoyed this video
Great video! I feel badly for Saskatchewan! I would suggest that you do a video on Manitoba and British Columbia!
Suggestion: There are Canadian Provinces where at least half their population live in just one metro area:
Metro Vancouver, BC
Gtr Winnipeg, Manitoba
Gtr Montreal, Quebec
Gtr Charlottetown, PEI
Halifax Regional District, NS
the only way Saskatchewan will catch up to Alberta, is if more of the world adopts nuclear power, either thorium, or uranium. Alberta grew so much more rapidly due to its oil reserves. If the world adopts nuclear, then that dynamic shifts to Saskatchewan, considering Saskatchewan alone has the 5th largest supply of thorium in the world, and puts Canada at #4 when including the rest of Canada, and over 60% of Canada's Uranium is in Saskatchewan, with an unusually high supply of naturally occurring enriched uranium or U-238.
For years the NDP governement shut out economic development in Saskatchewan. All the kids left the province for careers. It's hard to grow a province when all the youth leave. These days after a decade of political shift to economically supportive government (i.e., not the NDP), Saskatchewan (like Alberta) is a wonderful place to live.
Bullseye 🎯
Yes...the province was full of NDPeons. That set them back.
Alberta and Saskatchewan have the largest animals in all of North and South America (Wood Bison)
SK still has natural wetlands and pristine nature. Please don’t ruin it by moving here. Urban sprawl devastates wetlands.
The population of Saskatoon is not 100k larger than Regina. The most recent government census put Regina at around 300K and Saskatoon at 335k. The bedroom communities around Regina are more spread out while the bedroom communities of Saskatoon are closer to the city due to the river valley giving a higher density.
The soil in the plains is not fertile and often requires significant irrigation to grow more than grass. Look up 'Palliser's Triangle' and that this area was determined to be not suitable for habitation. Geographically to me at least the Cypress Hills which straddles the southern border of AB and SK is the most interesting part of Saskatchewan. The Cypress Hills has the highest elevation east of the Rockies and a unique biome
The plains around MJ/Regina are very fertile but are at the mercy of the weather to provide the right amount of rain during the growing season. When I lived there, (5 decades past) the soil was very black and nutrient rich because of millennia of the annual grass growing, dying and decomposing to form compost. Requiring irrigation does not mean the land is not fertile.
The northern part of Sask, like northern Manitoba is made from the exposed bedrock of the Canadian shield with muskeg in the pockets ... THAT is the main geographical difference ... and so has very few ways to profit from that starkness.
Yep. First line of the video is incomplete. Manitoba too.
Manitoba isn't real
@@layers3392thank you
Saskatchewanian here - How dare you forget our Manitoba prairie bros.
Originally Saskatchewan and Alberta was going to be one province called Buffalo. The federal government changed its mind at the last minute because they felt the province would be to big and as a result to powerful and created Saskatchewan and Alberta. Recently there has been talk of the provinces joining forces as both feel they get treated poorly compared to their eastern provinces. Both provinces have their positives and negatives. I’m born and raised Calgarian but my wife was born in Regina so I have a pretty good sense of what makes each province different. Great video!
Saskatchewan & Alberta combine is still smaller than Quebec in size & population. The federal government didn't care much about Quebec until the referendum/separatist movement. BQ also holds a lot of power by having 30+ MPs & during minority government it can work with either main party to have a majority during votes.
@@BananaBlooD9517Funny, considering they made Quebec as big as it is now seven years after splitting the western area literally in half to make sure the West couldn't gain too much power. Since Laurier, at least, the country has always (begrudgingly) given more influence/land/etc to Quebec. The West they hoped would never ask for anything and mostly run itself while simultaneously never wanting independance of any kind. It's a paradox, I know.
@@Colton-el4mp If the federal government didn't care about the west then why did it built the rail road?? Why did they invest time & money to get immigrants to move there.
At best the federal government made concessions to Quebec so it wouldn't revolt & break the country
@@BananaBlooD9517 It cared about the west as a way to make money. They wanted settlers there to farm cash crops. They built the railroad because it's hard to become an agricultural powerhouse with no way to get wheat out of the prairies (also to make concrete claims over North America lest the US take what was left).
@@BananaBlooD9517 Hard to become an agricultural powerhouse with no way to move grain (plus it allowed the Brits to have concrete claims over the land as it was afraid the US would just take it). Also hard to farm cash crops if there's no one there to raise them. And it wasn't like the land was a free gift. The settlers would come and essentially gamble $10 (in that time's money) that they could successfully farm the land. Essentially, they had a year to have a certain amount of acres growing or livestock producing and a permanent structure or the feds would kick them off the land and give it to someone else.
Sask is a dustbowl. The water in Regina is red. Don't drink it. It was Flint ted. Manitoba is also a Prairie Province. We survived Hudson Bay smallpox blankets when they tried to kill us. Prairie people are survivors! Life is harsh. Winters are so cold. Survivors. You have no idea.
Half a century head start on Oil & Gas development. Saskatchewan DOES have a significant O&G Sector now, but certainly smaller and newer. Until the Great Depression, Saskatchewan was the third most populated province in the country.
Hi Geoff. I live in the Southern part of Saskatchewan. I am a bit put off by how you compared Alberta to Saskatchewan. Alberta is renowned for 2 major things. The Rocky Mountains and oil. You showed the Rocky Mountains as you were describing Saskatchewan. We have no Mountains. We have very flat prairies and oil too, cattle farms and a large forested region up north. We do have some deep valleys and long rivers. Alberta has cattle farms and ranches. The have some prairies but their mountain foothills extend into them.
U forgot about the peace river valley
I lived in Saskatchewan for forty years. The northern part is all boreal forest and lakes, lakes, lakes, left behind by the last ice age. It's one of the few places in the world you can find true wilderness. You can canoe there for days without seeing anone else, except perhaps the occassional Indian family going to tend their fishing nets. I never heard anyone say "Gee, I wish we had a few million more people here."
One other thing not mentioned: the winters. Long stretches of -15C to -30C with a couple of -40C days thrown in. If you're not ready for that, don't go there between October and March.
Alberta produces nearly 4M barrels of oil per day. Texas produces 5.6M with 6x the population.
The oil companies saw the landscape of Calgary and put headquarters there so they could look at that when they went home.
They saw Edmonton and decided this would be an ok place to make smell bad with the oil processing.
Water is extraordinarily limiting for both province's rural development. Especially with climate change on the horizon, water rights are being renegotiated because of long-term droughts.
Climate change is BS
Climate change lol the climate has been changing for many many years before us.
How arrogant us humans are to think that we think the planet needs us to save her. l assure u she will be here for many many moons. I’m sure if she doesn’t want us here we wouldn’t be.
Old saying goes” the only thing that stays the same is everything changes.” That includes the climate.
@@icetealover1158 One of the most ignorant takes I have ever read. You have simply highlighted how big an impact we actually have had. Look at actual data instead of just making baseless claims. Of course "the planet," will still be here. Humans may not be, very soon, not because "she doesn't want us here," but because we are too stupid to save ourselves. You said nothing, and you were still wrong.
@@CanCobb anyone who thinks we will go extinct because of climate change hasn't read the data. Wood burns if it's 30° or 32° you'll evacuate if a hurricane comes whether the wind is 300km/h or 320km/h, tip...if the water rises 3 ft over the next 100 years and your still alive take a few steps away from the shore. 😁
@@icetealover1158 Let me know when you finally pull your head out of the Tar Sands.
As a young Metis landlord from The Battlefords, Saskatchewan, I would say the current mass immigration to Alberta is because most newcomers are coming from countries with megacities so they prefer larger cities. So our small dinky Saskatchewan cities look like villages to them. Historically I would say the mass resettlement of First Nations and Metis people from other provinces to middle and northern Saskatchewan deterred mass European, Lebanese, Japanese, and Chinese immigration to the region, especially being that most towns were raided and burnt to the ground during the rebellion. This is all changing now as my city is being flooded with newcomers. Saskatchewan could have a population close to Alberta's size in a few decades if the housing crisis that hit the GTA and Lower Mainland hits the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor in the next 2 years. We have so many houses sitting empty in rural Saskatchewan cities just waiting to be filled.
I lived in Alberta back in 98, we’d visit family in Manitoba.. the drive through Saskatchewan was long and forever.
It’s like sailing through an endless ocean of yellow fields and small towns.
I still prefer it to driving Northern Ontario.
too bad you didn't take a different road 2/3rds of Saskatchewan is forest and they have over 100,000 lakes and so much more.
@@Ithoughtthiswasamerica take a different road, 2/3rds of Saskatchewan is forest and they have over 100,000 lakes.
@@LHLK-f9t I know that, I was just complimenting the canola fields on the TCH
On Saskatchewan's licence plates they should put the slogan "Closer to Square than anywhere" for two reasons, the second of which is because of the rectangular shape of the province...you already know the first reason.
I come from Saskatchewan. Born and raised in Saskatoon. I had a young family and desperately searched for a job where I could earn enough to support my family. I was told that Alberta had a booming economy and so I moved my family to Edmonton. I went on a job search in Edmonton. Walked into the first place on my list of places to try. My feet almost literally did not touch the ground until I was hired and in uniform. Alberta has been good to me.
Moving out of Saskatoon, on crossing the border into Alberta via Lloyminster there was a sign that said: "Would the last one out of Saskatchewan please turn out the lights." Sadly, that sign really was there. I could not buy a job in Saskatchewan in the early 1970s. That should answer WHY people were leaving Saskatchewan at that time.
Why is Saskatchewan so windy?
Because Manitoba sucks and Alberta blows.
I was born and raised in Edmonton, and i really like our province. Earlier this year, i had to do a 3 week shift at in northern sask, 2 hours north of La Loch. I hope i dont have to do that drive again!
Saskatchewan just might be the most fun word ever to say in English. I am from California.
Usually mispronounced by Americans.
I remember watching Bugs Bunny on a Saturday morning, doing a magic trick: "Hocus pocus... Saskatoon, Saskatchewan!"... Haha, as a kid in Saskatoon I was knocked out!
@@ricopedrajrs wholesome 🤣💖
Fascinating as always. Thanks!
Where’s the O in Saskatchewan? You’re switching the A for O at the end of the name. The way a Regina or Saskatoon resident would pronounce their province is to truncate the end and say “Saskatchewn”
Of all the channels that could possibly make the mistake of omitting Manitoba as a prairie province, it should not have been a geography channel. Inexcusable!
I'm from Manitoba and that is the prairie's too so...
If you’re wanting to save tens of thousands of dollars per year(or more) then do what many other smart Canadians are doing!!! Saskatchewan currently has an influx of people moving here from BC, Ont and Alberta. Lower cost of living here vs those other provinces. Its also said that Sask may have more oil and gas then Alberta has. Much is yet to be discovered and likely wont be untill Alberta nears closer to being tapped out.
sounds like the difference between Arizona and New Mexico
Oklahoma and Texas come to mind as well. Saskatchewan has a small rivalry with Manitoba but Alberta is just on a different level and is more concerned with comparing itself to B.C. and being a national presence for 'the West'.
Albertans don't give a rat's zzz about Saskatchewan and pretty much consider BC to be full of leftyst loons to be mocked.
Manitoba is more of a prairie province than Alberta which has mostly a very different landscape so your report is incomplete at best when you consider also that the population of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are quite close.
Liked and previously subscribed. Did you exclude Manitoba as a prairie province on purpose to boost comments to help with the algorithms? I've never before heard that Manitoba is not a prairie province.
My guess, is that because this video was on Saskatchewan and Alberta, he excluded Manitoba for simplicity. I could be wrong.
Saskatchewan has plenty of beauty, my favorite is all the big lakes that offer great fishing. I'm originally from Flin Flon Manitoba a town on the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border. ❤
Cheers from 2 Canadians 🇨🇦 living in Mexico. 🇲🇽🥰✌🏼
Thanks!
Wow! Thank you!!
I was born in Saskatchewan, but my family moved to Alberta when I was 10 years old.
By the way, I assumed that Manitoba was also considered a prairie province.
They don't call it "Oilberta" for nothing.
"Texas North" ... "Howdy?"
Why is Manitoba not considered a Prairie Province? Suggestions for future videos; why western China is empty, and why Russia east of the Urals is so sparsely populated.
I love how you named a bunch of the cities with WHL teams (Go Winterhawks!)
Yes Saskatchewan might not have an NHL team but we have a very high number of WHL teams compared to our overall population.
@@iem123 I've always wanted to drive to each of the cities in the WHL (well, the Canadian teams). Then I realize the cost of gas, and change my mind.
@@This.Here.Channel lol, yah not really all in a line and you’d be going all over the place
Thank you for your informative presentation. A very early discovered oil field was Leduc. The tar sands came later
As a Saskatchewan person born and raised here I'd say the brutal winters and extremely high taxes in Saskatchewan. And it's only getting worse with government wasteful spending so taxes keep going up.
SK Premier sucks !
@@mark72141 I totally agree. I heard a former Sask party member actually say a quote from Scott Moe. She said behind closed doors that Saskatchewan conservative voters have zero choices... It's him (Moe) or nobody. He has conservatives forced to choose between him or a liberal or NDP and that is voters only choices.
So yes I agree our provincial premier sucks in a big way... Personally I think he is far more libtard than conservative.
Edit: I forgot to mention that another UA-cam video about Saskatchewan politics had a politician in our province mention Scott Moe was running a deficit for Saskatchewan that was larger per capita than Justin Trudeau's insane national debt. Which proves just how bad our Sask Party truely is.
I spent 17 years of my adult life as an immigrant in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
I moved to Victoria, Vancouver Island BC in my late 60s because of a milder climate in contrast to Saskatchewan's frigid weather conditions during winter months.
1:39 “Métis” is pronounced “May Tee”.
It’s French, you usually don’t pronounce the last letter.
In the case of métis, we do pronounce the "s" in French.
Ohhhhhhh hurray thanks for that absolute useless tidbit of info hahaha 🙄
But Metis don't speak French. In fact, they hate frogs.
@@mark72141 hahaha can’t hate them to much haha that’s how the Métis were made hahaha
@@Kingfisher276 Blame the European invaders for raping the Natives.
I used to live in Saskatchewan and have recently moved to Alberta. There aren’t many jobs here, and the rent for housing is expensive. There aren’t many job opportunities, and it's also winter, so the roads are not easily passable due to snow.
Oil
In the 1941 federal census Saskatchewan counted almost 900,000 residents while Alberta numbered almost 800,000 … after that came the end of WWII & the Oil BOOM for Alberta!!