Giants of the Prairies is a song by the Canadian polka

Polka

The polka is a Central European dance and also a genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia...

 band, the Kubasonics

Kubasonics

The Kubasonics are a band of Edmontonians honored in Alberta’s Ukrainian Canadian community for recreating traditional Ukrainian melodies, with a twist...

.

It tells the story of the numerous "world's biggest" roadside attraction

Roadside attraction

A roadside attraction is a feature along the side of a road, that is frequently advertised with billboards to attract tourists. In general, these are places one might stop on the way to somewhere else, rather than being a final or primary destination in and of themselves. The modern...

s to be found in Western Canada, especially in small towns populated mostly by Ukrainian Canadians.

Brian Cherwick, the leader of the Kubasonics, has a Ph.D.

Ph.D.

A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

 from the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies

Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies

The Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies was founded in 1981, as a joint creation between the University of Manitoba and St. Andrew's College. The mission of the Centre is to create, preserve and communicate knowledge dealing with Ukrainian Canadian culture and scholarship...

 at the University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba , in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the largest university in the province of Manitoba. It is Manitoba's most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. It was founded in 1877, making it Western Canada’s first university. It placed...

, titled "Polkas on the Prairies: Ukrainian Music and the Construction of Identity".

List of giant roadside attractions in the Prairies

Attraction	Community	Image
World's Largest Blue Heron Blue Heron Blue Heron can refer to:* Little Blue Heron, a small heron* Great Blue Heron, a large wading bird* Blue Heron Lake, Canada* Great Blue Heron Casino, Canada* Blue Heron Estate, Alberta* Blue Heron, Kentucky* Blue Heron Park Preserve, New York City...	Barrhead, Alberta Barrhead, Alberta Barrhead is a town in central Alberta, Canada, within the County of Barrhead No. 11. It is located along the Paddle River and at the intersection of Highway 33 and Highway 18, approximately northwest of the City of Edmonton...
World's Largest Softball	Chauvin, Alberta Chauvin, Alberta Chauvin is a village in east central Alberta, Canada. It is located east of Wainwright, and west of the Saskatchewan border. It is also the home of Susie the Softball, the worlds largest softball.-Demographics:...
World's Largest Oil Lamp	Donalda, Alberta
World's Largest Dinosaur World's Largest Dinosaur The "World's Largest Dinosaur" is the name of a model Tyrannosaurus rex located in the town of Drumheller in the Canadian province of Alberta...	Drumheller, Alberta Drumheller, Alberta Drumheller is a town within the Red Deer River valley in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada. It is located northeast of Calgary...
World's Largest Geese	Hanna, Alberta Hanna, Alberta Hanna is a town in east-central Alberta, Canada.The town's main industries are agriculture, oil production, tourism, and coal mining. It is the centre of a large trading area called Short Grass County and is the home of approximately 200 businesses...
World's Largest Border Markers	Lloydminster Lloydminster Lloydminster is a Canadian city which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan...
Battle between Bear and Swan	Swan Hills, Alberta Swan Hills, Alberta Swan Hills is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located north of Whitecourt at the junction of Highway 32 and Grizzly Trail. Swan Hills is located in Municipal District of Big Lakes within census Division No...
World's largest Badminton Racket	St. Albert, Alberta St. Albert, Alberta St. Albert is a suburban city in Alberta, located northwest of Edmonton, on the Sturgeon River. It was originally settled as a Métis community, and is now the second largest city in the Edmonton area. St...
World's largest Beaver	Beaverlodge, Alberta
World's largest Bucking Saddle Bronc and Rider, The Legacy	Ponoka, Alberta Ponoka, Alberta Ponoka is a town in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is situated in the south/central parkland region of rolling hills. Industries are agriculture , and oil and gas production...
World's largest bunnock Bunnock Bunnock, also known as Glockenspiel and the Game of Bones, is a game that is thought to have been created by Russian soldiers to pass the time while stationed in northern Siberia during the early nineteenth century .The game involves what the soldiers had a surplus of; namely, horse...	Macklin, Saskatchewan
World's largest Chuckwagon	Dewberry, Alberta Dewberry, Alberta - Demographics :The population of the Village of Dewberry according to its 2010 municipal census is 219, a 5.2% decrease from its 2008 municipal census population of 231....
World's largest kubasa	Mundare, Alberta Mundare, Alberta Mundare is a small town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located east of Edmonton and west of Vegreville, at the intersection of Highway 15 and Highway 855, north of the Yellowhead Highway...
World's largest Toque	Morinville, Alberta Morinville, Alberta Morinville is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located north of Edmonton on Highway 2.- History :Morinville was settled by Father Morin, an Oblate missionary, who brought many French settlers in the late 1800s, followed by several German pioneers—hence its many French and German families...
World's largest Mallard Duck	Andrew, Alberta Andrew, Alberta -External links:**...
World's largest Mushroom	Vilna, Alberta Vilna, Alberta Vilna is a historic village in central Alberta, Canada.Vilna is located in Smoky Lake County, on Highway 28, northeast of the city of Edmonton...
World's largest Oil Derrick	Redwater, Alberta Redwater, Alberta Redwater is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located north of Edmonton on Highway 38, in Sturgeon County. Its population, as of 2006, was 2,192.Redwater is placed in the federal riding of Westlock—St...
World's largest Piggy Bank	Coleman, Alberta Coleman, Alberta Coleman is an urban community in the Rocky Mountains within the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in southwest Alberta, Canada. It was formerly incorporated as a town prior to 1979 when it amalgamated with four other municipalities to form Crowsnest Pass....
World's largest Putter	Bow Island, Alberta
World's largest Sundial	Lloydminster Lloydminster Lloydminster is a Canadian city which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan...
World's tallest teepee	Medicine Hat, Alberta Medicine Hat, Alberta Medicine Hat, known to locals as "The Hat", is a city of 61,097 people located in the southeastern part of the province of Alberta, Canada. It is enclaved within Cypress County along with the nearby Town of Redcliff, although neither is part of the county....
World's largest Wagon Wheel and Pick	Fort Assiniboine, Alberta
World's largest Western Boot	Edmonton, Alberta
Giant Horse	Irricana, Alberta Irricana, Alberta Irricana is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located in the wide-open spaces of the Canadian prairies, northeast of Calgary, and west of the Drumheller badlands off Highway 9....
David Thompson Monument	Lac La Biche, Alberta
Giant Pumpkin	Smoky Lake, Alberta Smoky Lake, Alberta Smoky Lake is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located northeast of Edmonton at the junction of Highway 28 and Highway 855. It lies between the North Saskatchewan River, Smoky Creek and White Earth Creek. Long Lake Provincial Park is located north of the town.- Demographics :In 2006,...
World's First UFO Landing Pad	St. Paul, Alberta St. Paul, Alberta St. Paul is a town in east-central Alberta, Canada. It was formerly called St. Paul de Métis and was originally a French-Catholic settlement and mission to the Metis people....
Giant perogy Pierogi Pierogi are dumplings of unleavened dough - first boiled, then they are baked or fried usually in butter with onions - traditionally stuffed with potato filling, sauerkraut, ground meat, cheese, or fruit...	Glendon, Alberta Glendon, Alberta Glendon is a village in northern Alberta north of St. Paul.In 1993, the town unveiled its roadside tribute to the perogy. Their "Giant Perogy," complete with fork, is 25 feet tall. It is one of the Giants of the Prairies. Next to the roadside attraction is the Perogy Cafe, which serves...
Vegreville egg Vegreville egg Vegreville egg is a giant sculpture of a pysanka, a Ukrainian style Easter egg. It is the largest pysanka in the world. The work is built of an intricate set of tiled two-dimensional congruent equilateral triangles and star-shaped hexagons fashioned over an aluminum framework...	Vegreville, Alberta Vegreville, Alberta -Notable Vegrevillans :*Brent Severyn, former NHL defenseman*Cam Cole, Canadian sports writer*Laurence Decore, lawyer, former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, and former leader of the Alberta Liberal Party*Roderick Fraser, former president of the University of Alberta...
Giant potatoes	Vauxhall, Alberta Vauxhall, Alberta Vauxhall is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Municipal District of Taber, in the prairie land between Bow River and Oldman River....
Large replica of the Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise... starship USS Enterprise USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-A is a starship in the fourth, fifth, and sixth Star Trek films.-Origin and design:The Enterprise-A used the same shooting model as the preceding NCC-1701...	Vulcan, Alberta Vulcan, Alberta Vulcan is a town located midway between the cities of Calgary and Lethbridge on Highway 23, in the prairies of southern Alberta, Canada. The population of the town was 1,940 in 2006, and the population of the county, which is also named Vulcan, was 3,718. The town's economy is mainly tourism and...
Giant gopher Gopher (animal) The term gopher as it is commonly used does not relate to any one species, but is a generic term used to describe any of several small burrowing rodents endemic to North America, including the pocket gopher , also called true gophers, and the ground squirrel , including Richardson's ground squirrel...	Torrington, Alberta
World's largest mosquito	Komarno, Manitoba
The Happy Rock Happy Rock Happy Rock is a roadside attraction in Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada. It is on the Northeast side of Highway 16. The large statue also serves as the visitor information centre for the town.-History:...	Gladstone, Manitoba Gladstone, Manitoba Gladstone is a town in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is located on the Yellowhead Highway at the intersection with Highway 34 within the boundaries of the Rural Municipality of Westbourne...
World's largest painting on an easel (reproduction of Van Gogh's Sunflowers)	Altona, Manitoba Altona, Manitoba Altona is a predominantly Mennonite town in southern Manitoba about 100 km south-west of Winnipeg and 133 km north of Grand Forks, North Dakota. It is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Rhineland. Much of the surrounding area is devoted to farming and agriculture-based business. Its...
Canada's Largest Baseball Bat	Edmonton, Alberta
Canada's Largest Buffalo	Wainwright, Alberta Wainwright, Alberta Wainwright is a town on the prairies of east-central Alberta, Canada.It is located on the north side of the Canadian National Railway, with CFB Wainwright located on the southwest side. The town lies south of Vermilion, in the Battle River valley, along Highway 41, called the Buffalo Trail....
World's Largest Coke Can	Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Portage la Prairie, Manitoba -Transportation:Portage la Prairie railway station is served by Via Rail with both The Canadian and Winnipeg – Churchill trains calling at the station....