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It’s 1998.

Google was just born, and dial-up was the primary way to connect to the Internet. New sites were being developed daily on any number of topics, from recipes to shopping.

David Yanciw, however, was thinking big – big things, that is.

That year, the Saskatoon resident created ‘Big Things of Canada’ to catalog the large roadside attractions in towns across the Prairies. A road trip he took from Saskatoon to Edmonton inspired the site.

“A friend who lived in Edmonton mentioned the Glendon perogy on a fork, so we said we’d go take a look at that,” he said, “We also stopped in St. Paul, which has the UFO landing pad.”

The pair took more road trips together in other provinces where they looked for local “big things.”

“We weren’t in any hurry on our road trips,” he said, “So we …

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