Ontario vs the Prairies

Driving in northern Ontario I saw lots of trees and mines. The roads were hilly and twisting. I saw workers drilling tubes of dynamite to blast the rocks at the side of the road. Then I saw big trucks moving huge boulders.
When we drove across Manitoba, the roads became very flat. I saw lots of trains carrying oil and cargo. One train had over 200 cars. There was a tamping machine on the tracks, too. I saw lots and lots of farms while driving into Saskatchewan. The farms had cows and the fields were golden. We had to drive past lots of slow-moving farm trucks on the highway. They were huge and I had never seen them before.
In Manitoba, we crossed the centremost point in Canada!

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