I am from Prince Albert Saskatchawan and we may even have a lowwer population density than alaska. There is only a million people and it is pretty big.
I live in the northern part of the province where it is more like siberia and alaska(but no mountains) than the wheat fields most people think of.

I lived in east vancouver for quite a while and that was a strange place. It is a very canadian big city with big city problems like drug addicts and homeless people but they are very nonviolent and polite junkies. I saw some tourists ask a crack whore for directons and get really good directons. Very surreal.