If you're willing to forego working with your brain in favor of physical labor, western Canada is probably one of the few places in the world that you can make a 6 digit income right out of high school.
Oil, natural resources in general, driving construction like you said. Saskatchewan (to the east of Alberta) has some oil, but also has the world's largest supply of potash, the price of which has tripled over the last few years. And British Columbia to the west has the 2010 Winter Olympics driving construction.
