Giants of the Prairies


The Giants of the Prairies are a group of "world's biggest" roadside attractions found in Western Canada, especially in small towns populated mostly by Ukrainian Canadians.

List

AttractionCommunityProvinceImageDate constructed
World's Largest Badminton RacketSt. AlbertAlberta2000
World's Largest BeaverBeaverlodgeAlberta2004
World's Largest BeeFalherAlberta1990
World's Largest Honey BeeTisdaleSaskatchewan1993
Aaron the Blue HeronBarrheadAlberta1984
World's Largest Border MarkersLloydminsterAlberta and Saskatchewan1994
World's Largest Bucking Saddle Bronc and Rider, "The Legacy"PonokaAlberta2004
World's Largest bunnockMacklinSaskatchewan1994
World's Largest Curling RockArborgManitoba2005
World's Largest Coke CanPortage la PrairieManitoba1994
World's Largest ChuckwagonDewberryAlberta1995
World's Largest DinosaurDrumhellerAlberta2001
World's Largest Fire HydrantElm CreekManitoba2001
World's Largest Animated Grizzly BearInnisfailAlberta2013
Goose StatueHannaAlberta
World's Largest Golf TeeTrochuAlberta2009
World's Largest kielbasaMundareAlberta2001
World's Largest Mallard DuckAndrewAlberta1992
World's Largest MosquitoKomarnoManitoba
World's Largest MushroomVilnaAlberta
World's Largest Oil CanRocanvilleSaskatchewan
World's Largest Oil DerrickRedwaterAlberta
World's Largest Oil LampDonaldaAlberta
World's Largest painting on an easel AltonaManitoba1998
World's Largest Piggy BankColemanAlberta
World's Largest PutterBow IslandAlberta
World's Large Pinto Bean, "Pinto Macbean"Bow IslandAlberta-
Giant SunflowerBow IslandAlberta
Giant Prairie CrocusesDayslandAlberta
World's Largest Softball, "Susie"ChauvinAlberta
World's Largest Railroad SpikeHines CreekAlberta
World's Largest SundialLloydminsterAlberta and Saskatchewan
World's Tallest TeepeeMedicine HatAlberta
World's Largest Wagon Wheel and PickFort AssiniboineAlberta
World's Largest Western BootEdmontonAlberta
Giant Baseball BatEdmontonAlberta
Giant HorseIrricanaAlberta
David Thompson MonumentLac La BicheAlberta
Giant PumpkinSmoky LakeAlberta
World's First UFO Landing PadSt. PaulAlberta
Giant perogyGlendonAlberta
Giant Vegreville egg VegrevilleAlberta1975
Giant potatoesVauxhallAlberta[Image:Vauxhall potatoes.JPG|center|92px|Vauxhall potatoes]
Giant replica of the Star Trek starship USS EnterpriseVulcanAlberta
[Image:VulcanAlbertaEnterpriseReplica.jpg|64px|center|Enterprise replica in Vulcan]
Giant gopherTorringtonAlberta
The Happy RockGladstoneManitoba1993
Canada's Largest Baseball BatBattlefordSaskatchewan
Canada's Largest Baseball GloveHeislerAlberta
Canada's Largest BuffaloWainwrightAlberta
Canada's Largest DragonflyWabamunAlberta
World's Largest Moose, "Mac the Moose"Moose JawSaskatchewan
Battle between Bear and SwanSwan HillsAlberta
Giant Skunk, "Squirt"BeisekerAlberta
Alberta's Largest Northern PikeRochon SandsAlberta
Giant CornstalksTaberAlberta
Giant PineconeSt. AlbertAlberta
Giant WalleyeShaw's PointAlberta
Giant CrowBellevueAlberta
Giant Black DiamondTurner ValleyAlberta
World’s Largest Fishing LureLacombeAlberta
Canada's Largest Turtle, "Ernie"TurtlefordSaskatchewan
Canada's Largest coffee pot and cupDavidsonSaskatchewan1983

In popular culture

These attractions are referenced in the Kubasonics song "Giants of the Prairies".
The phenomenon was parodied in the sixth episode of the first season of Corner Gas, "World's Biggest Thing". Wherein one of the characters proposes the construction of the "world's biggest hoe" to draw in tourism to the town of Dog River, leaving some citizens unaware of the double entendre the name elicits.