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Not sure why the Carberry desert doesn't qualify as a desert: https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g1871864-d50114...

I was under the impression it holds the largest piece of "soft desert" in Canada, but maybe that's wrong.

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"There are almost as many definitions of deserts and classification systems as there are deserts in the world. Most classifications rely on some combination of the number of days of rainfall, the total amount of annual rainfall, temperature, humidity, or other factors. In 1953, Peveril Meigs divided desert regions on Earth into three categories according to the amount of precipitation they received. In this now widely accepted system, extremely arid lands have at least 12 consecutive months without rainfall, arid lands have less than 250 millimeters of annual rainfall, and semiarid lands have a mean annual precipitation of between 250 and 500 millimeters. Arid and extremely arid land are deserts, and semiarid grasslands generally are referred to as steppes"

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/what/

As I understand it Carberry gets 300-500 mm of rain per year.

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