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Trevor Redmond walked from Stanley Park, BC to the east coast of Canada and back, between 2006 and 2007, for cancer prevention, research and awareness. He covered 11,421 kilometers. [13] [14] In 2009, he completed a 14,632 kilometer [15] bicycle ride across Canada and Back over a 3-month period.
Since 2018, Quebec has been working on upgrading the 40-kilometre-long (25 mi) two-lane section of Trans-Canada Highway along Route 185 to an Autoroute, with 21.5 km (13.4 mi) of new freeway commissioned during 2021–22, another 10 km in 2024 and the remaining 8.5 km (5.3 mi) of freeway under construction, with final completion targeted for 2026.
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.
The Trans Canada Trail is a cross-Canada system of greenways, waterways, and roadways that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic oceans. The trail extends over 28,000 km (17,000 mi); it is now the longest recreational, multi-use trail network in the world.
Toronto has a major program in place to dramatically expand the network through on-road separate bike lanes, with the goal of having any cyclist in the city proper within a five-minute ride of a designated bike route. The network includes a planned 500 km of on-street bike lanes, and another 250 km of off-road paved trails.
Canada has the longest coastline in the world, with a total length of 243,042 kilometres (151,019 mi); [6] additionally, its border with the United States is the world's longest land border, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi). [7] Three of Canada's Arctic islands, Baffin Island, Victoria Island and Ellesmere Island, are among the ten ...
But how many actually cross the U.S.—Canada border illegally? ... Similarly, across the whole of the northern border, agents recorded nearly 199,000 encounters in fiscal year 2024, ...
For the 4.5- to 15-tonne trucks, 88.9% of vehicle-kilometres were intra-province trips, 4.9% were inter-province, 2.8% were between Canada and the US and 3.4% made outside of Canada. For the trucks over 15 tonnes, 59.1% of vehicle-kilometres were intra-province trips, 20% inter-province trips, 13.8% Canada-US trips and 7.1% trips made outside ...