Trans-Canada Highway
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Trans-canada Highway is in Canada.
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Understand
Canada is the second largest country in the world, and the largest country that it is easy to travel across. The Trans-canada highway connects all ten provinces and is 7821km long. Most Canadians have some interest in seeing the entire country and driving across Canada is a common way of doing it.
There are alternate ways of crossing Canada:
- Cross Canada by rail VIA rail connects the country by passenger rail.
- Cross Canada by bicycle
- Trans canada Trail - a multi-use trail, is not really intended to be done in a continuous trip, but rather as a symbolic link across Canada.
Prepare
Get in
This trip can be started anywhere in Canada. Technically the Highway runs from Victoria (British Columbia) to St. John's, Newfoundland (or the other way around, both cities declare a "mile 0" for the highway). However, for practical purposes many travellers skip the trip to Newfoundland, and end it in Halifax, others may skip Victoria and end it in Vancouver.
Drive
The trip will be detailed from west to east, obviously it could be done in the reverse direction. There are some locations where multiple routes are called the Trans-Canada highway. Generally the routes that go through the larger cities will be the route taken.
Victoria–Winnipeg
The highway, designated as Highway 1 in the four western provinces goes through the magnificent mountains of British Columbia and western Alberta and the awe inspiring Prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
- Victoria (British Columbia) north on Vancouver Island to
- Nanaimo take the ferry to
- Vancouver drive east on the freeway to
- Hope continues north along the Fraser River to
- Cache Creek turns east to
- Kamloops then continues east through
- Revelstoke before you get to
- Banff in the Alberta portion of the Canadian Rockies. From there continue west to
- Calgary where it goes through the centre of the city and from there continue to Medicine Hat. Continue through the endless Prairies to
- Moosejaw in Saskatchewan before you come to
- Regina and then
- Brandon in Manitoba finishing the western portion in
- Winnipeg
Winnipeg to Ottawa
Make sure you stop at Kakabeka Falls.
Ottawa to Moncton
Moncton to North Sydney
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
Port aux Basques to St. John's
Stay safe
The weather in parts of Canada can be pretty extreme in the winter, so this trip is best done in the spring, summer or early fall.
External links
WikiPedia:Trans-Canada Highway
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