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Old alignment of Highway 1 north of Mt. Sicker Road. Hwy 1A: 16 10 Hwy 1 in Victoria: Hwy 1 near Langford: Gorge Road, Admirals Road, Old Island Highway, Goldstream Avenue 1956 c. 1990s Former Hwy 1 in Victoria Hwy 1A: 16 10 Former Hwy 1 in Parksville: Port Alberni: Alberni Highway 1942 1953 Replaced by Hwy 4. Hwy 1A: 4 2 Hwy 1 in West Vancouver
The Yellowhead Highway is a 2,859-kilometre (1,777 mi) highway in Western Canada, running from Masset, British Columbia, to where it intersects Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) just west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. It is designated as Highway 16 in all four provinces that it passes through (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and ...
It is the only road that links the province of Manitoba (and thus the entirety of Western Canada) with the province of Ontario, making it a major section of Canada's primary commercial and leisure route for all traffic travelling between Canada's largest cities, from Toronto and Montreal in the east to Calgary and Vancouver in the west.
Prior to the opening of the freeway (and prior to the 1980s and 1990s, expressway) segments of the present Trans-Canada, traffic used the Pattullo Bridge, Kingsway, and Fraser Highway as the Trans-Canada Highway. These roads were a part of the Highway 1 from its designation in 1940 [31] [32] until the redesignation of the B.C.'s 400 series ...
There are many classes of roads in Canada. The only inter-provincial systems are the Trans-Canada Highway and National Highway System. [1] Major roads in Canada.
The National Highway System (French: Réseau routier national) in Canada is a federal designation for a strategic transport network of highways and freeways. [1] The system includes but is not limited to the Trans-Canada Highway, [1] and currently consists of 38,098 kilometres (23,673 mi) of roadway designated under one of three classes: Core Routes, Feeder Routes, and Northern and Remote Routes.
Numbered highways in Canada are split by province, and a majority are maintained by their province or territory transportation department. With few exceptions, all highways in Canada are numbered . Nonetheless, every province has a number of highways that are better known locally by their name rather than their number.
British Columbia Highway 3, officially named the Crowsnest Highway, is an 841-kilometre (523 mi) highway that traverses southern British Columbia, Canada.It runs from the Trans-Canada Highway at Hope to Crowsnest Pass at the Alberta border and forms the western portion of the interprovincial Crowsnest Highway that runs from Hope to Medicine Hat, Alberta.