Largest Possible Saskatchewan population

Or, NO discovery of oil in Alberta. Which would mean a lot more people in Saskatchewan and Manitoba stay put.
 
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Have Boeing's plant at Winnipeg become a lot bigger - maybe they build some 737s or something.

Have wheat and potash prices hit new peaks and stay there.

Have a cheap method for upgrading heavy oil be developed by e.g. the UofS and retool e.g. Saskatoon's former refinery to dealing with heavy oil. Then when you get bottlenecks (e.g. the current Keystone XL fiasco, but earlier), this refinery upgrades again to deal with Tar Sands bitumen. (It's a lot easier to move and export refined products, or even light crude than it is the bitumen product.)

Have SaskTel's early venture into fiber optics make Saskatchewan the world leading producer of fiber cable.

Have Saskatchewan's early lead in nuclear medicine (first calibrated cobalt bomb, betatrons, etc.), coupled with government funding for health care lead to medical tourism to Saskatchewan. So, instead (or in addition to) rich Americans and Arab sheiks flying to Rochester MN to the Mayo clinic, they fly to the RUH (which gets the 'Royal' sooner) in Saskatoon.

Have Morris Rodweeder in Yorkton expand, and get some more agricultural equipment manufacturing in the West (e.g. Massey-Harris/Ferguson)

Have Quebec separate, and all the Francophones who want to stay Canadian move to St. Boniface.... :)

Have SED systems get a major NASA contract, or two, and use that as the basis for space electronics etc.
 

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More upheavals in Ukraine and Eastern Europe leading to more immigrants going to the Prairies.
 
Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg gets into the business of launching civilian satellites. BA builds so many floats, WSPS, airplane sub-components, etc. that they surpass de Havilland and Canadair. BA merges with Bell Helicopter and takes over most of BH's civilian production. BA sub-contracts major components for the BB CV-22 Osprey and dominates the business of supplying off-shore oil rigs.
 
Build a wall around Saskatchewan to keep people from leaving?:p

More seriously, have the proposed Piper move here go ahead.

Going further back on POD, avoid trying to farm the Palliser Triangle.:eek::confused::confused: Then, have the federal Liberals in the '30s follow Keynes instead of
trying to balance the budget, & do more to keep people from fleeing. (I'm not sure if there's a way around the decade's worth of drought, tho; maybe intensive irrigation? TBH, I oppose irrigation; draining aquifers that take centuries to replenish is stupid.)

Finding oil here first would help. Finding potash sooner wouldn't hurt. I'm not sure if finding diamonds is credible. A significant gold strike in Manitoba is, tho (Red Lake, IIRC).
 
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