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142-623: The bridge carries Highway 6 (formerly Highway 68 ) across a narrow channel separating Manitoulin Island from the much smaller Goat Island , forming the only land access. It consists of two 21 m (70 ft) deck plate girder approaches on the north end (Goat Island) and a single 18 m (60 ft) deck plate girder approach on the south end (Manitoulin Island), with a 112 m (368 ft) through swing bridge span. The swing bridge sits 5.3 m (17.5 ft) above mean water level, and provides

284-512: A concurrency with Highway   24. This brought the length of the route to 114.3 kilometres (71.0 mi), including the approximately 16.1 kilometres (10.0 mi) of Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue between Jane Street and Sibley Avenue, within the Toronto city limits. Below the escarpment, the highway followed what is now the Old Guelph Road, meandering into Hamilton. South of Hamilton,

426-543: A 20-year effort to convert its entire 516 km (321 mi) section of the Trans-Canada Highway into a four-lane limited-access divided highway. The highway has a speed limit of 110 km/h (68 mph) on most of its sections in New Brunswick. New Brunswick was the first province where the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway was made entirely into a four-lane limited-access divided highway. From Moncton,

568-565: A 48 m (160 ft) opening on either side of the central pier for water passage. The width of the bridge is 15’1” for loads. Construction of the bridge was started by the Algoma Eastern Railway with the abutments and piers being built in 1912 and the bridge structure being erected in 1913. The Algoma Eastern Railway began operating trains across the bridge to the community of Little Current in October 1913. The Algoma Eastern Railway

710-455: A 75-kilometre (47 mi) section from Whitbourne to St. John's are divided. Although there does not appear to be any nationally-sanctioned "starting point" for the entire Trans-Canada Highway system, St. John's has adopted this designation for the section of highway running in the city. The foot of East White Hills Road in St. John's, near Logy Bay Road , would be a more precise starting point of

852-448: A Parclo A2 interchange (the exits from Highway 401 are displayed as "Highway 6 South"), while through traffic on Brock Road continues as Wellington Road 46, the current Highway 6 designation is instead multiplexed with Highway 401 west of that junction. Although Wellington Road 46 (the previous alignment of Highway 6 prior to the opening of the Hanlon) does provide a more direct route to Guelph,

994-455: A four-lane divided highway . Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have widened most of their southern Trans-Canada Highway network to four lanes. In Quebec, most sections of the TCH network overlap with the province's Autoroute freeways. New Brunswick is the only province to have its whole length of the main Trans-Canada Highway route at a four-lane freeway standard. Like the former U.S. Route 66 ,

1136-617: A four-lane undivided alignment for 5 km. Much of the old alignment north to near Rymal Road remains provincially maintained as unsigned Highway 7273. In Hamilton, Highway 6 now uses a new alignment from Highway 403 to south of the Hamilton Airport , connecting with the southerly leg to Caledonia and Port Dover. The new alignment opened as an undivided two-lane freeway in November 2004, with capacity to expand it to full 4-lane divided freeway, and to extend to past Caledonia, by some time in

1278-801: A freeway and proceeds 206 km (128 mi) east to Montreal , as Highway 417 in Ontario (and the Queensway in Ottawa) and Autoroute 40 in Quebec. The Trans-Canada assumes the name Autoroute Métropolitaine (also known as "The Met" or "Metropolitan Boulevard") as it traverses Montreal as an elevated freeway. At the Laurentian interchange, in Montreal, the Abitibi route (Highway 66, Route 117, A-15) rejoins

1420-465: A junction just south of Rivière-du-Loup , 173 km (107 mi) northeast of Lévis . At that junction, the highway turns southeast and changes designation to Autoroute 85 for 43 km (27 mi), and then downgrades from a freeway to Route 185 , a non-Autoroute (not limited-access) standard highway until Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! , where Autoroute 85 resumes once again. The portion from Autoroute 20 to Edmundston , New Brunswick,

1562-463: A maximum of 90 km/h (56 mph) in rural areas. The Trans-Canada Highway through the three prairie provinces is 1,667 km (1,036 mi) long. It starts at the border with British Columbia at Kicking Horse Pass, and runs all the way to the Ontario border at Whiteshell. The highway continues through Alberta, running east for 206 km (128 mi) as Alberta Highway 1 to Lake Louise , Banff , Canmore , and Calgary . This section of

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1704-729: A new, shorter route was in the planning stages. Construction of the $ 33 million route was announced on May 26, 2000 by Transportation Minister David Turnbull , and began in July 2003. The new route was opened on November 26, 2004. The section through Hamilton at the time followed Upper James Street through the Claremont Access onto the one-way pairings of Wellington Street and Victoria Avenue then Main Street and King Street. It turned north on Dundurn Street and crossed Cootes Paradise via York Boulevard before turning onto Plains Road and meeting

1846-465: A province (especially in Ontario and Quebec) as the TCH piggybacks along separate provincial highways (which often continue as non-TCH routes outside the designated sections) en route. In addition, Ontario and Quebec use standard provincial highway shields to number the highway within their boundaries, but post numberless Trans-Canada Highway shields alongside them to identify it. As the Trans-Canada route

1988-621: A signalized four-lane arterial road for short stretches in Salmon Arm , Revelstoke , and Golden , but has no signal lights on it for most of its length. The highway crosses two high passes along its route: Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park , and Kicking Horse Pass in Yoho National Park . At Kicking Horse Pass, the highest point on the whole Trans-Canada Highway system is reached, at 1,627 m (5,338 ft). Speed limits on

2130-663: A small arterial road , it enters the Departure Bay Terminal and crosses the Strait of Georgia to Horseshoe Bay via BC Ferries . From there, it travels through Metro Vancouver on a four-to-eight-lane freeway before leaving the city and continuing as a four-lane freeway eastward up the Fraser Valley to Hope . There, the Trans-Canada Highway exits the freeway and turns north for 186 km (116 mi) through Fraser Canyon and Thompson Canyon toward Cache Creek , mostly as

2272-458: A telegraph line between Lion's Head and Tobermory and opened up a large area previously accessible only by water. The latter two would not be incorporated into the original route of Highway 6. When Ontario's Department of Public Highways first established a network of provincial highways on February 26, 1920 to be eligible for federal funding, it included the Hamilton and Dover Plank Road,

2414-410: A tourism and travel centre. The Coquihalla project also realigned Highway 1 (TCH) to a new freeway bypass around Kamloops . Plans for a freeway to bypass or eliminate traffic congestion and road hazards along the heavily-travelled route from Victoria to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island were cancelled during the recession that followed the 1987 stock market crash . In Alberta, between 1964 and 1972,

2556-651: A two-lane highway. Highway   6 is both the main means of connection between Manitoulin Island and the rest of Ontario and the major highway on Manitoulin Island. Highway 540 and Highway 542 on Manitoulin Island link back to Highway   6. The section from South Baymouth to the Highway   542 junction has the least traffic on a given day, with an average of 610   vehicles passing as measured in 2010. Highway 6 continues north, passing through communities such as Manitowaning , Sheguiandah , and Little Current . At Little Current, Highway   6 crosses

2698-450: A two-lane route, portions of the route are built as two-lane expressways . Two short bypasses are also considered part of the Trans-Canada Highway system. These include the 42-kilometre-long (26 mi) Perimeter Highway 100 bypass around Winnipeg, which provides an expressway standard alternative to the crowded Highway 1 in the city centre, and the 34-kilometre-long (21 mi) two-lane Kenora Bypass ( Highway 17A ), which

2840-473: A two-lane rural highway with only occasional traffic lights. Approaching Kamloops , Highway 1 re-enters a short freeway alignment (briefly concurrent with Highways 5 and 97 ), before passing through Kamloops itself as a four-lane signalized highway. From Kamloops, the highway continues east as a mostly-two-lane rural highway through the Interior of British Columbia, with occasional passing lanes. It widens to

2982-535: Is 1,045 km (649 mi) long, beginning in Victoria at the intersection of Douglas Street and Dallas Road (where the "Mile 0" plaque stands), and ending on the Alberta border at Kicking Horse Pass . The highway starts by passing northward along the east coast of Vancouver Island for 99 km (62 mi) to Nanaimo along a mostly-four-lane, heavily-signalized highway. After passing through downtown Nanaimo on

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3124-470: Is a two-lane route that bypasses the entire town to the north. Early on, much of the route of the Trans-Canada Highway was first explored in order to construct the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 19th century, a route which much of the mainline TCH route later ended up following. The Trans-Canada Highway was not the first road across Canada. In British Columbia, the highway was predated by

3266-421: Is approximately 120 km (75 mi) long. Since the Trans-Canada Highway for the most part follows Quebec's Autoroute System, which is always composed of a minimum four-lane freeway, travel through Quebec is generally, safe, fast, and congestion-free. The exception is the route through Montreal, which can be prone to traffic congestion. However, drivers can bypass the city on the tolled Autoroute 30, which

3408-891: Is concurrent with Highway 7 , from the Wellington Street interchange north to where the Hanlon Expressway ends at Woodlawn Road. At Woodlawn, Highway 7 turns west onto Woodlawn Road, while Highway 6 turns east onto Woodlawn Road. Following Woodlawn, Highway 6 then turns north onto Woolwich Street, leaving the city of Guelph. As Highway 6 leaves Guelph and heads northwards through Wellington County, it narrows to two lanes and passes through farmland. The route meanders northward for 17 kilometres (11 mi) before entering Fergus , where it meets County Road 18 and County Road 19. North of Fergus, Highway 6 winds northwest for another 17 kilometres into Arthur meeting County Road 109 (former Highway 9 ) just south of

3550-437: Is designated as Highway 16 in all four provinces that it passes through (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba). It follows a more northerly east–west route across Western Canada than the main TCH and passes through fewer cities, with Edmonton being the largest on the route. Other major municipalities on the route include Prince Rupert , Prince George , Lloydminster , and Saskatoon . The Yellowhead Highway

3692-415: Is largely non-functional as a major long distance corridor due to its roundabout route and the complete avoidance of the Toronto area. It is a 671-kilometre-long (417 mi) alternate route to Highway 17 (the mainline TCH) between Sudbury and Ottawa. It passes through several major communities, including Orillia and Peterborough . Because it passes closer to major population centres, this section of

3834-461: Is limited to 110 km/h (68 mph), but is 100 km/h (62 mph) east of Winnipeg. East of Winnipeg, the highway continues for over 200 km (120 mi) to Kenora , Ontario. At the provincial border, the expressway becomes an arterial highway, and the numeric designation of the highway changes from 1 to 17. It is signed with a provincial shield along with a numberless Trans-Canada Highway sign, and continues as an arterial highway along

3976-584: Is most well-known for passing through Jasper National Park in Alberta, where it crosses the Continental Divide through its namesake Yellowhead Pass . Since it carries significantly less traffic than its more southerly counterpart, the Yellowhead is almost exclusively a two-lane highway in British Columbia and Manitoba, and is only partially a four-lane expressway in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Until 1990,

4118-645: Is not part of the Trans-Canada. The maximum speed limit on the Quebec Autoroute System (including the TCH) is a strictly-enforced 100 km/h (62 mph). However, the speed limit may be lower in select spots, such as through tunnels or major interchanges. 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

4260-604: Is notable that the Trans-Canada largely bypasses Canada's most heavily populated region, the Golden Horseshoe area of Southern Ontario, which includes Canada's largest city, Toronto . However, a short section of the Central Ontario branch does pass through the rural northeastern edge of Durham Region at both Sunderland and Beaverton, which is officially part of the Greater Toronto Area. Access to Toronto itself from

4402-462: Is now a fully controlled-access expressway with two southbound lanes and three northbound lanes (the extra lane being for trucks climbing the steep escarpment) as well a concrete median barrier with high mast lighting. North of Clappison's Corners, most of the route is four lanes for general traffic, plus one centre lane for left turns, allowing for high travel speeds as the typical flow varies between 100 and 120 km/h (62 and 75 mph). However

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4544-477: Is part of the Trans-Canada Highway system, and bypasses the city with a mix of traffic lights and interchanges, while Highway 1 continues through central Winnipeg as a signalized arterial road. With the exception of a 15.3-kilometre-long (9.5 mi) stretch of two-lane highway just west of the Ontario border, the entire length of Highway 1 through the Prairie Provinces is a four-lane highway. While

4686-567: Is part of the Trans-Canada Highway system, but is almost exclusively referred to as the Yellowhead Highway and is often recognized as its own highway under that name. In comparison, Highway 1 in Western Canada is always referred to as the Trans-Canada Highway, and has a significantly higher traffic volume with a route passing through more major cities than the less important Highway 16 (Yellowhead) TCH route. Therefore Highway 1

4828-579: Is usually considered to be part of the main Trans-Canada Highway route, while Highway 16 is not, although it may be considered a second mainline corridor as it serves a more northerly belt of major cities, as well as having its own Pacific terminus. Although the TCH network is strictly a transcontinental system, and does not enter any of Canada's three northern territories or run to the United States border , it does form part of Canada's overall National Highway System (NHS), which provides connections to

4970-471: The Canadian Shield , a rugged, forested area with thousands of lakes. There are many cottage communities along this section of the Trans-Canada Highway, some of which have their driveways directly onto the highway. Highway 11/Highway 17 proceeds southeast for 65 km (40 mi) to Thunder Bay , then northeast for 115 km (71 mi) to Nipigon . An 83-kilometre (52 mi) segment of

5112-671: The Coquihalla Highway in 1986, the Trans-Canada Highway through the Fraser Canyon received less traffic, because the freeway bypass shortened the drive between Hope and Kamloops by 90 minutes. However, the route was retained as part of the Trans-Canada Highway system, and is considered a scenic route and a valuable part of the Fraser Country Circle Tour. The opening of the Coquihalla was also an economic disaster for many of

5254-705: The Crowsnest Highway , the Big Bend Highway , and the Cariboo Highway , all of which were constructed during the Great Depression era. Many of the earlier highways in British Columbia were largely gravel and had many frequent inland ferry crossings at wide rivers and lakes. In Alberta, the section between Calgary and Banff was predated by the Morley Trail (now Highway 1A), which was driveable starting in

5396-511: The Department of Highways (DHO) took over the Department of Northern Development (DND) in 1937, Highway 6 was extended north through the Bruce Peninsula to Tobermory . In 1980, the entire length of Highway 68 on Manitoulin Island and north to Highway 17 became a northern extension of Highway 6. Small modifications were made to the route of Highway 6 in 1997, but it

5538-558: The Grand River , to improve capacity to the developing areas of Nanticoke near Lake Erie, and to reduce the high-volume of truck traffic passing through the town. Construction began in late 1979 on structures to cross the Grand River and to carry rail lines and three crossroads over the bypass. The bypass was completed in the fall of 1983. The old route through Caledonia is now known as Argyle Street. On April 1, 1997, Highway 6

5680-747: The Hamilton–Dover Plank Road between Port Dover and Hamilton, the Brock Road between Hamilton and Guelph, and the Garafraxa Road between Guelph and Sydenham (renamed to Owen Sound in 1851) — were opened in the 1830s and 1840s. Further north, the Southwest Diagonal and the Centre Road were built through the Bruce Peninsula in the 1840s and 1920s, respectively. In 1837, Charles Rankin

5822-538: The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) transferred the responsibility of maintenance and upkeep along 14.2 km (8.8 mi) of Highway 17 east of "the split" with Highway 417 to Trim Road (Regional Road 57) to the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton , a process commonly referred to as downloading . The Regional Municipality then designated the road as Regional Road 174 . Despite

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5964-817: The North Channel by the Little Current Swing Bridge , which swings open for 15   minutes of each daylight hour in the summer to allow boats to pass through the channel. As of 2021, studies by the MTO have proposed replacing the aging structure with a two-lane crossing. After crossing the North Channel, Highway 6 climbs through the La Cloche Mountains near Whitefish Falls . Eventually, it arrives in Baldwin , north of Espanola , ending at Highway 17 in

6106-560: The Northwest Territories , Yukon , and the border, although the NHS (apart from the TCH sections) is unsigned. Canada's National Highway System is not under federal jurisdiction or coordination, as highway construction and maintenance are entirely under the jurisdiction of the individual provinces , which also handle route numbering on the Trans-Canada Highway. The Western provinces have voluntarily coordinated their highway numbers so that

6248-646: The 119 km (74 mi) Garafraxa Road between Guelph and Sydenham was completed. The remaining section between Hamilton and Guelph, known as the Brock Road, was constructed between 1848 and 1850 over the Guelph and Dundas wagon road. The wagon road, merely a trail through the forest, was cleared by the Canada Company in the 1820s to connect the fledgling town of Guelph with the established harbour at Hamilton, thus encouraging settlers to venture inland. Further north,

6390-600: The 1910s and paved in the 1930s. The first route over the Central Canadian Rockies to connect Calgary to British Columbia was the Banff–Windermere Parkway , which was opened in 1922 and is now numbered as Highway 93. Sections of road across the Prairies have also existed since the 1920s. A gravel road connection across northern Ontario (Highway 17) was constructed starting in 1931. While this section

6532-571: The 1920s. The section was straightened, widened and paved with asphalt-based "penetration pavement" in 1930. On April 1, 1937, the Department of Northern Development was absorbed into the Department of Highways, which subsequently took over many development roads as provincial highways. Most of the northern sections of Highway 6 were included amongst these. Highway 68 was designated from Little Current north to Espanola on August 11, 1937. Two weeks later, on August 25, Highway 6

6674-540: The 1950s, the route continued through Guelph along what is now Gordon Street, Norfolk Street and Woolwich Street. This section has since been replaced by the Hanlon Expressway , built throughout the 1970s. North of Guelph to Owen Sound, the route also follows the same route as it did in 1920, with some small deviations. The section from Fergus north towards Arthur followed the route was of the old Fergus and Arthur Road Company. A "cheap attempt" at paving had been made in

6816-552: The 1980s; the end of tracks then being located at a ship-loading facility in Turner on the Goat Island side of the bridge. As a result, CPR transferred ownership of the bridge to the Ministry of Transportation and it has been used exclusively by road vehicle traffic ever since. CPR subsequently abandoned rail service from Espanola to Turner in the 1990s and removed the tracks, leaving only

6958-717: The 2010s. As Highway 6 meets Highway 403 at a trumpet interchange, and there is a concurrency for 17 kilometres within Hamilton. The concurrency ends at the Highway 6 junction directional-T interchange, at the Hamilton/ Burlington boundary, near the Royal Botanical Gardens where Highway 6 turns northward towards Clappison's Corners. The section of Highway 6 between Highway 403 in Hamilton and Clappison's Corners (the intersection at Highway 5 West / Dundas Street)

7100-705: The Brock Road and the Garafraxa Road. These roads were assumed from the various counties that held jurisdiction over them – Norfolk, Haldimand, Wentworth, Wellington and Grey – throughout June, July and August 1920. Within Wentworth County, the construction of the Clappison Cut through the Niagara Escarpment was underway by 1921, with the aim of bypassing the winding old route that is known today as Old Guelph Road. The new route, which travelled straight along

7242-513: The Bruce Peninsula. The road remains as a two-lane highway for its full length up to Tobermory. Highway   6 spans 110 kilometres (68 mi) across the peninsula. It passes through communities such as Shallow Lake , Hepworth , Wiarton , and Ferndale . It is named Berford Street in Wiarton, and 10th Street in Owen Sound. Along the road, Bruce Peninsula National Park can be found. At Tobermory,

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7384-474: The Governor's Road between Highway   24 and Highway   2 at Paris. The 19.0 kilometres (11.8 mi) road between Highway   8 and Highway   24, through Beverley and South Dumfries was designated on June   18, while the 6.8-kilometre (4.2 mi) section of the Governor's Road, along the boundary between South Dumfries and Brantford Township , was designated several months later on September   24. These two segments were connected by

7526-424: The Laird Road interchange. It partially opened on the week of November 11, 2013, and was fully opened on November 29, 2013, in a public ceremony attended by local officials as well as Guelph MPP Liz Sandals . Caledonia Bypass In 1976, a corridor study was completed on Highway 6 between Port Dover and Hamilton, indicating a need for a bypass of Caledonia due to the aging multi-span bridge over

7668-438: The Main TCH route between Kenora and Thunder Bay, passing through the town of Fort Frances on the U.S. border. Then, after running concurrently with the main Trans-Canada Highway route, Highway 11 splits off to the north at Nipigon , running through a vast and sparsely-populated area of northern Ontario. This highway sees little long-distance traffic compared to the main route, beside heavy transport trucks looking to avoid

7810-417: The Mainland segment of the Trans-Canada Highway in British Columbia range from 90–100 km/h (56–62 mph), although in towns it can be as low as 50 km/h (31 mph). A combination of difficult terrain and growing urbanization limits posted speeds on the Vancouver Island section to 50 km/h (31 mph) in urban areas, 80 km/h (50 mph) over the Malahat and through suburban areas, and

7952-419: The Minister of Public Works and Highways, Frank Campbell Biggs , on August   23, 1922. The Clappison Cut was completed and paved in 1924. Highway   5 and Highway   6 travelled concurrently from Highway   8 (Main Street) in downtown Hamilton to Clappison's Corners when route numbers were assigned in 1925. Highway   5 was 127.4 kilometres (79.2 mi) long at this time. This situation

8094-430: The New Brunswick border, the main Trans-Canada Highway route continues east into Nova Scotia at Amherst , where it settles onto Nova Scotia Highway 104 . Southeast of Amherst, near Thomson Station , the highway traverses the Cobequid Pass , a 45-kilometre (28 mi) tolled section ending at Masstown , before passing by Truro , where it links with Highway 102 to Halifax, 117 km (73 mi) east of

8236-401: The New Brunswick border. Halifax , like Toronto, is a provincial capital that the Trans-Canada Highway does not pass through. Beyond Truro, the highway continues east for 57 km (35 mi) to New Glasgow, where it meets Highway 106 , before continuing to the Canso Causeway , which crosses the Strait of Canso onto Cape Breton Island near Port Hawkesbury . From the Canso Causeway,

8378-466: The Old Guelph Road onto the new route into Hamilton. This configuration remained until the construction of Highway 403 during the early 1960s, which was built over the Longwoods Road Extension. Mount Hope Bypass Due to the narrow spacing of buildings in the village of Mount Hope , a bypass of the village was built in the mid- to late 1950s. The original route is now known as Homestead Drive. The bypass opened on April 26, 1957, at which point

8520-417: The Saskatchewan Border. In 1970, plans were made for a six-to-eight-lane freeway to carry the Trans-Canada Highway though the heart of North Calgary, but the plan was soon dropped due to citizen outcry . Between Ottawa and the Ontario–Quebec border, the Trans-Canada Highway designation was taken from the two-lane Highway 17 and applied to the existing Highway 417 freeway in 1997–98. On April 1, 1997,

8662-441: The Southwest Diagonal was surveyed in 1842 by Charles Rankin to provide a short route from the Sydenham townsite to the Hepworth townsite. This route passed through a large swamp and as a result remained an unimproved one lane trail into the 1920s. The Centre Road, the spine of the Bruce Peninsula, was built by the Department of Northern Development in the early 1920s, providing access to communities north of Wiarton. The route followed

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8804-443: The TCH route to Montreal after connecting with Autoroute 15 . The main Highway 11 continues south until it intersects the main Trans-Canada Highway route (Highway 17) in North Bay. Except for the southernmost stretches south of Labelle , these highways are two-lane undivided routes. The southern Ontario Trans-Canada Highway route is even more abstract than the northern ones, as it uses four different provincial highways, and

8946-464: The TCH sees higher traffic volumes. It is made up of various sections of freeways, expressways, and two-lane routes. Another spur route of the Trans-Canada Highway splits off the mainline in eastern New Brunswick. This route connects to Prince Edward Island across the 13-kilometre-long (8.1 mi) Confederation Bridge , crosses the central part of Prince Edward Island, including through the provincial capital of Charlottetown , before crossing back to

9088-402: The Trans-Canada Highway between Thunder Bay and Nipigon is commemorated as the Terry Fox Courage Highway . Fox was forced to abandon his cross-country Marathon of Hope run here, and a bronze statue of him was later erected in his honour. The highway is the only road that connects eastern and western Canada. On January 10, 2016, the Nipigon River Bridge suffered a mechanical failure, closing

9230-409: The Trans-Canada Highway for 17 hours; the only alternative was to go through the United States, around the south side of Lake Superior . Highway 17 proceeds east from Nipigon for 581 km (361 mi) along the northern and eastern coast of Lake Superior. Between Wawa and Sault Ste. Marie , the highway crosses the Montreal River Hill , which sometimes becomes a bottleneck on the system in

9372-475: The Trans-Canada Highway was completely rerouted from its former two-lane alignment along the Bow River to a new, more direct, four-lane freeway between Banff and Calgary, resulting in the bypassing of several towns, such as Canmore . Prior to this change, one of the first traffic circles in Canada existed on Highway 1 at the "gateway" junction for Banff from at least as early as the 1950s. The current interchange on Highway 1 for Banff Avenue now occupies

9514-412: The Yellowhead Highway had its own unique highway number signs, but they have now mostly been replaced with standard maple-leaf Trans-Canada Highway signs, with numberless Yellowhead shields posted adjacent to them. The 1,547-kilometre (961 mi) section of Highway 71 and Highway 11 between Kenora and North Bay, Ontario , is considered part of the Trans-Canada Highway. This highway first runs south of

9656-415: The boundary between East and West Flamboro , was assumed on January   12, 1921. The province and the City of Hamilton also constructed several new bridges across Cootes Paradise to create a new northwest entrance into Hamilton. The new entrance, connecting the Toronto–Hamilton Highway (later Highway   2) with the incomplete route up the escarpment to Clappison's Corners, was ceremonially opened by

9798-413: The bridge modified to permit road vehicle traffic in addition to rail traffic. As a result, operation of the swing span saw the span left in the closed position to permit both rail and road vehicle traffic to cross, although a CPR employee was stationed at the bridge to open the swing span should it be required for marine traffic. Rail service to Little Current and Manitoulin Island was abandoned by CPR in

9940-435: The bridge's mechanics have been failing and its steel deteriorating. The preferred option, announced in 2021, will see a new two-lane swing bridge built just west of the existing bridge. Highway 6 (Ontario) King's Highway 6 , commonly referred to as Highway 6 , is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . It crosses a distance of 480 km (300 mi) between Port Dover , on

10082-421: The city of Regina , and skirts around the city on the Regina Bypass , the most expensive infrastructure project in Saskatchewan to date . Beyond Regina, it continues east for 486 km (302 mi), across the border with Manitoba, to the cities of Brandon and Portage la Prairie , and finally 84 km (52 mi) east to Winnipeg . The southern portion of Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway (Highway 100)

10224-570: The city on Highway 417, which is between six and eight lanes wide at this point. In Southern Ontario , the speed limit is generally 80 km/h (50 mph) on the Trans-Canada, while in Northern Ontario it is 90 km/h (56 mph). Sections routed along Highway 417 outside urban Ottawa feature a higher limit of 110 km/h (68 mph). While Highways 17 and 417 are largely free from traffic congestion except for minor rush hour delays on Ottawa's stretch of Highway 417,

10366-522: The city. Ontario plans to eventually extend the 417 freeway to Sudbury, which will widen the section of the mainline TCH between Ottawa and Sudbury to four-lane freeway standards. However, there is no funding secured for such a project, as Ontario is currently focusing on extending Highway 400 to Sudbury along the Highway ;69 corridor (which is part of the Georgian Bay TCH route). It

10508-429: The combination of Highway 401 and the Hanlon Expressway serves as an express bypass. The section where Highway 6 is concurrent with the Highway 401 freeway has the highest AADT (Annual Average Daily Traffic), at 85,000 automobiles per day in 2002. The Highway 6 routing splits from Highway 401 at a trumpet interchange with the Hanlon Expressway (the on-ramps from Highway 401 are signed as "Highway 6 North"). In Guelph,

10650-412: The community of McKerrow , 117 kilometres (73 mi) from South Baymouth. Prior to the establishment of Ontario's provincial highway network in 1920, the route that would become Highway 6 was composed of several early wagon trails created during the early settlement of what was then known as Upper Canada . These trails carved through an otherwise barren wilderness, connecting distant townsites:

10792-478: The country, the term "Trans-Canada Highway" often refers to the main route that consists of Highway 1 (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), Highways 17 and 417 (Ontario), Autoroutes 40, 25, 20, and 85 (Quebec), Highway 2 (New Brunswick), Highways 104 and 105 (Nova Scotia), and Highway 1 (Newfoundland). This main route starts in Victoria and ends in St. John's , passes through nine of

10934-496: The current route at the now-closed intersection. The responsibility for this routing was subsequently transferred to the City of Hamilton. In early 2002, it was announced that the section of Highway 6 north of Hamilton, from Highway 403 north to beyond Highway 5, would be widened to a five lane freeway, with the northbound carriageway featuring an additional truck-climbing lane. This work began in 2006, widening and dividing

11076-567: The designation of Highway 1 and runs northeast for 219 km (136 mi) through Corner Brook , east for another 352 km (219 mi) through Gander , and finally ends at St. John's , another 334 km (208 mi) southeast, for a total of 905 km (562 mi), crossing the island. The majority of the Trans-Canada Highway in Newfoundland is undivided, though sections in Corner Brook, Grand Falls-Windsor , Glovertown , and

11218-427: The east coast. The main route spans 7,476 km (4,645 mi) across the country, one of the longest routes of its type in the world. The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers , although there are small variations in the markers in some provinces. While by definition the Trans-Canada Highway is a highway system that has several parallel routes throughout most of

11360-705: The highway (again signed exclusively with the TCH shield) follows the Saint John River Valley, running south for 170 km (110 mi) to Woodstock (parallelling the Canada–US border ) and then east for another 102 km (63 mi) to pass through Fredericton . 40 km (25 mi) east of Fredericton, the Saint John River turns south, whereby the highway crosses the river at Jemseg and continues heading east to Moncton another 135 km (84 mi) later. On November 1, 2007, New Brunswick completed

11502-504: The highway continues east, now designated as Highway 105 on Cape Breton Island, until reaching the Marine Atlantic ferry terminal at North Sydney . From North Sydney, a 177-kilometre (110 mi) ferry route, operated by the Crown corporation Marine Atlantic , continues the highway to Newfoundland , arriving at Channel-Port aux Basques , whereby the Trans-Canada Highway assumes

11644-570: The highway continues southeast for 54 km (34 mi) to a junction at Aulac close to the New Brunswick– Nova Scotia border (near Sackville ). Here, Trans-Canada Highway again splits into two routes, with the main route continuing to the nearby border with Nova Scotia as Route 2, and a 70-kilometre (43 mi) route designated as Route 16 , which runs east to the Confederation Bridge at Cape Jourimain . From

11786-472: The highway passes through Banff National Park and has significant tourism. The section of Highway 1 through Banff National Park was also one of the first highways in North America to have wildlife crossing structures and fencing installed on it . After leaving the mountains it enters Calgary, where it becomes known as 16 Avenue N , a busy six-lane street with many signalized intersections. For

11928-491: The highway travels along Carlton Road and Front Street, where motorists must queue for the Chi-Cheemaun ferry to continue onwards to Manitoulin Island . The journey by ferry traverses waters of both Georgian Bay and Lake Huron , and takes approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes. The ferry service is not available from mid-October to early May. The Chi-Cheemaun ferry docks at South Baymouth, and Highway   6 continues as

12070-449: The highway up the Clappison Cut. The York Road interchange opened on May 23, 2009, following completion of this work. The Plains Road/Northcliffe Avenue intersection was closed the night before and a new section of Plains Road opened on the same day as the interchange. The project to upgrade this segment of Highway 6 was $ 34 million. Three sections of Highway   6 are undergoing planning as of 2022. The following table lists

12212-409: The highway, where the road meets and transfers into the start of the Trans-Canada Highway. The terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway in Victoria , at the foot of Douglas Street and Dallas Road at Beacon Hill Park , is also marked by a "mile zero" monument. St. John's downtown arena, Mary Brown's Centre , was originally branded under naming rights as "Mile One Centre" in reference to the geography of

12354-594: The leadership of Thomas B. McQuesten , who would soon introduce the freeway to Ontario, a new grand entrance to Hamilton was planned. It would cross the Desjardins Canal and terminate at a traffic circle, with Highway 2 continuing east and Highway 6 north. This new road, known as the Longwoods Road Extension, was built partially as a depression-relief project in the early 1930s. Upon completion in 1932, Highway 2 and Highway 6 were routed off

12496-550: The longer Trans-Canada Highway route. Another example is that much long-distance traffic between Western and Eastern Canada will drive south into the United States and use the Interstate Highway System, rather than the Trans-Canada Highway through Northern Ontario . The main Trans-Canada Highway is uniformly designated as Highway 1 across the four western provinces. The British Columbia section of Highway 1

12638-417: The main TCH line. The TCH then follows Autoroute 25 southbound, crossing the St. Lawrence River through the 6-lane Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel , and proceeds northeast on Autoroute 20 for 257 km (160 mi) to Lévis (across from Quebec City ). East of Lévis , the Trans-Canada Highway continues on Autoroute 20 following the south bank of the St. Lawrence River to

12780-439: The main Trans-Canada route is designated Highway 1 and the Yellowhead route is designated Highway 16 throughout. Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador also designate Highway 1 as their section of the TCH, while New Brunswick uses Highway 2 (a separate important highway—albeit non-TCH—is Highway 1 in that province). East of Manitoba, the highway numbers change at each provincial boundary, or within

12922-420: The main route across Northern and Eastern Ontario, until widening out to a freeway at Arnprior, near Ottawa. In Kenora, the Trans-Canada designation includes both the main route through the city's urban core and the 33.6 km (20.9 mi) Highway 17A bypass route to the north. The existing branch from Kenora continues east for 136 km (85 mi) to Dryden . This section of highway passes through

13064-404: The mainland on a ferry. This length of the route is 234 km (145 miles), and consists of New Brunswick Highway 16, Prince Edward Island Highway 1, and Nova Scotia Highway 106. This leg of the Trans-Canada Highway sees moderately high traffic volumes and is an important tourist route. The Confederation Bridge is often viewed as an attraction in itself. Although the highway is mostly

13206-408: The mainline from Northern Ontario is via the non-TCH southern section of Highway 400, while access from Toronto to Quebec and points east is via Highway 401 (North America's busiest highway and a major national highway in itself), a short non-TCH section of Autoroute 20 , and A-30 , where the Trans-Canada is joined at A-40 just west of Montreal. From Ottawa, the Trans-Canada Highway continues as

13348-575: The major junctions along Highway 6, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario .   Trans-Canada Highway The Trans-Canada Highway ( French : Route Transcanadienne ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can ) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada , from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on

13490-446: The many non-expressway sections of the Trans-Canada Highway often form the main streets of communities, with homes and businesses directly adjacent to the Trans-Canada Highway. The Trans-Canada Highway is not always the preferred route between two cities, or even across the country. For example, the vast majority of traffic travelling between Hope and Kamloops, British Columbia, takes the Coquihalla Highway via Merritt , rather than

13632-426: The next 293 km (182 mi) after Calgary, the Trans-Canada Highway continues as a four-lane expressway, with few stops along its route. Medicine Hat is served by a series of six interchanges, after which the Trans-Canada crosses into Saskatchewan on the way to Moose Jaw . The highway mainly travels straight as a four-lane route for most of these sections. The expressway continues 79 km (49 mi) east to

13774-453: The non-freeway sections are subject to frequent closures due to crashes, especially in winter. It is considered a dangerous route due to its extensive outdated sections of winding two-lane highway. Because this section of the highway passes through a largely undeveloped and forested area, collisions with animals are a common cause of crashes. As recently as 2022 , Sault Ste. Marie's local government has asked for Highway 17 to be expanded north of

13916-579: The northern section from Waterloo Avenue to Woodlawn Road began in August 1974. It and the final section south to Highway 401 were opened on November 7, 1975. Initially, the 15.4-kilometre-long (9.6 mi) road featured no interchanges. However, the MTO has long-intended to upgrade the route to a freeway. Construction of the Wellington Avenue interchange began in October 1998; it opened in July 2001. On April 30, 2012, construction began on

14058-575: The northern shore of Lake Erie , and Espanola , on the northern shore of Lake Huron , before ending at the Trans-Canada Highway ( Highway 17 ) in McKerrow . Highway 6 was one of several routes established when Ontario first introduced a highway network on February 26, 1920, following several pioneer wagon trails. The original designation, not numbered until 1925, connected Port Dover with Owen Sound via Hamilton and Guelph . When

14200-407: The old routing was decommissioned. It was subsequently bypassed, when the new Highway 6 opened to the southwest of John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport, on November 26, 2004. Hanlon Expressway With the rapid suburban expansion of Guelph in the 1950s and 1960s, a revised transportation plan was conceived to handle the increasing traffic load. The Guelph Area Transportation Study

14342-408: The older United States Numbered Highway System . As a result, highway construction standards vary considerably among provinces and cities. In much of British Columbia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, the Trans-Canada Highway system is still in its original two-lane state. British Columbia is actively working on converting its section of Highway 1 east of Kamloops to

14484-493: The only wrong-way concurrency in Ontario (Highway 6 westbound traffic is labelled as going north, while Highway 21 westbound traffic is labelled as travelling south). The two routes pass through downtown Owen Sound and onwards into Springmount , where they disembark from one-another; Highway 21 continues west, while Highway 6 turns north into the Bruce Peninsula . At Springmount , Highway 6 ends its concurrency with Highway   21, and continues northwards into

14626-625: The only true freeway sections of the route are along the Regina Bypass, in Medicine Hat, and between Calgary and Banff, the whole highway is largely stoplight-free, with "split" at-grade intersections forming the vast majority of the junctions. The speed limit is restricted to 90 km/h (56 mph) through national parks in Canada, including Banff National Park. East of Banff, traffic on most of Highway 1 through Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba

14768-535: The protests of the region that the route served a provincial purpose, a second round of transfers saw Highway 17 within Ottawa downloaded entirely on January 1, 1998, adding an additional 12.8 km (8.0 mi) to the length of Regional Road 174. The highway was also downloaded within the United Counties of Prescott and Russell , where it was redesignated as County Road 17. The result of these transfers

14910-511: The railway bed and bridge structures such as the Little Current Swing Bridge as a reminder of Manitoulin Island's rail transportation heritage. Currently, operation of the swing span strongly favours highway traffic, as it stays in the closed position so that road vehicles can use it except for the first fifteen minutes of each daylight hour during the spring, summer and fall when it opens to permit marine traffic to pass. At night in

15052-417: The region. The usage of miles instead of kilometres at both designations dates back to when the Trans-Canada Highway was completed in 1962, prior to metrication in Canada . 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

15194-556: The remaining 8.5 km (5.3 mi) of freeway under construction, with final completion targeted for 2026. Once this project is complete, the disconnected sections of Autoroute 85 will be joined, and all of Quebec's Mainline Trans-Canada Highway route will be minimum four-lane freeway standards. This will also result in the TCH becoming a continuous freeway from Arnprior, Ontario, to Lower South River, Nova Scotia . The Trans-Canada Highway crosses into New Brunswick and becomes Route 2 just northwest of Edmundston . From Edmundston,

15336-446: The road to Jarvis was numbered as Highway 5 when route numbers were assigned in the middle of 1925. Highway 5 and Highway 6 travelled concurrently from downtown Hamilton to Clappison's Corners. However, on May 25, 1927, several route numbers were revised, including Highways 5 and 6. Highway 5 was redirected west from Clappison's Corners to Peter's Corners to meet Highway 8. Highway 6, in turn, assumed

15478-457: The road travels along the full length of the Hanlon Expressway (also known as the Hanlon Parkway), a four lane divided highway with mostly signalized level intersections and a couple grade-separated interchanges. The Ministry of Transportation is presently investigating the possibility of upgrading it to 400-series freeway standards by removing the remaining intersections. For 4 km Highway 6

15620-479: The route a full freeway began in the late 1990s and was completed in 2007. The 13-kilometre-long (8.1 mi) Confederation Bridge connecting PEI to New Brunswick opened in 1997. Replacing the ferry that previously serviced that route, it was hailed as a major accomplishment. In 2000 and 2001, Transport Canada considered funding an infrastructure project to have the full Trans-Canada system converted to limited-access divided highways. Although construction funding

15762-456: The route of Highway 5 south to Jarvis. Exactly two weeks prior, on May 11, the Department of Public Highways had assumed the road between Jarvis and Port Dover; this also became a section of Highway 6, establishing its southern terminus for the next seven decades. North of the escarpment to Highway 401, Highway 6 follows the same route that it did in 1920, the Brock Road. North of Highway 401, which didn't exist before

15904-493: The section in Wellington County from Puslinch to Morriston (which is also known as Brock Road) has remained a two lane road since it runs through several small towns where it lacks sufficient right-of-way for widening. As this narrow segment suffers from significant congestion, a bypass is being considered which will connect to the Hanlon Expressway at Highway 401. North of Morriston when Brock Road meets Highway 401 at

16046-459: The signals on the Little Current abutment being the only installation of traffic signals on Manitoulin Island. From mid-October to early May when the ferry MS Chi-Cheemaun is not in operation to carry passengers from the Bruce Peninsula , the bridge is the only road link to Manitoulin Island. The bridge has been designated an Ontario Heritage site. Studies for a replacement began in 2018, as

16188-483: The significant elevation changes along the Lake Superior route, since it is much flatter and the transit time for heavy hauling is usually the same. The area is also not well-known as a tourist destination outside of fishing tours, which are often fly-in. A much shorter 60-kilometre (37 mi) section of Highway 66 connects another northern Trans-Canada Highway route to Quebec's Highway 117 , which itself continues

16330-538: The site. In the rest of Banff National Park, much of the predecessor Highway 1 parkway was bypassed by a new two-lane route in the 1960s. The original route between Banff and Lake Louise remains as the Bow Valley Parkway and Lake Louise Drive, while a section over Kicking Horse Pass was abandoned and is now part of the Great Divide Trail . Between 1973 and 1990, the highway was twinned from Calgary to

16472-462: The spring, summer, and fall as well as when the shipping channel is closed to marine traffic during the winter, the swing span remains in the closed position at all times. Originally powered by a gasoline engine, the mechanism for the swing span was upgraded by the Ministry of Transportation to an electric motor in 2003. Due to the single vehicle lane, each end of the bridge is equipped with traffic signals (7 lights northbound and 2 lights southbound);

16614-531: The ten provinces, and connects most of the country's major cities, including Vancouver , Calgary , Regina , Winnipeg , Ottawa , Montreal , Quebec City , and Fredericton . One of the main route's eight other parallel routes connects to the tenth province, Prince Edward Island . While the other parallel routes in the system are also technically part of the Trans-Canada Highway, they are usually considered either secondary routes or different highways altogether. For example, Highway 16 throughout Western Canada

16756-576: The tendency to build roads that were straight rather than following the natural topography. Consequently, a new line was surveyed in 1840 by the company's own surveyor, John McDonald, and construction along this new route began. Around the same time, the Van Norman Company constructed a plank road between Port Dover and Hamilton known as both the Hamilton Plank Road and the Dover Road. By 1848,

16898-469: The time it was considered a major improvement to the gravel roads and ferries it replaced, it was soon believed to be insufficient to handle the growing traffic volumes. In response, several provinces began to construct realignments, freeway widenings, and twin sections of highway in response to traffic flow and safety concerns. In British Columbia's Lower Mainland, the Upper Levels Freeway alignment

17040-858: The town. After exiting Arthur, the route continues northwest for 22 kilometres (14 mi) before entering Mount Forest and meeting an intersection with Highway 89 . The route enters Grey County as it curves and meanders northward into farmland. It progresses north for another 22 kilometres to Durham , where it intersects Highway 4 . It continues for another 31 kilometres (19 mi) to Chatsworth , where it meets Highway 10 and travels northward concurrent with Highway 10 for 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) into Owen Sound. There it encounters an intersection, where Highway 10 ends; from here, Highway 26 continues runs north and then east to Collingwood and Barrie , while Ontario Highway 21 travels east and then south towards Sarnia . Highway 6 turns west onto Highway 21, forming

17182-464: The towns along the Fraser Canyon section of the Trans-Canada Highway, since most of the travel and tourism business along the route quickly dried up when most of the traffic took the new highway. The towns continue to be largely deprived of wealth, and some are close to being abandoned. On the other hand, Merritt , located midway up the new Coquihalla highway, ended up booming, and continues to grow as

17324-472: The traffic flow increases. At Caledonia , the road bypasses the former Highway 6 section (Argyle Street) that passes the town centre of Caledonia and is routed outside the urban area Caledonia. This Caledonia Bypass was opened in 1983, and is a two-lane undivided freeway. The bypass terminates at Green's Road on the north side of Caledonia and Highway 6 proceeds eastbound on Green's Road for approximately 500 metres to Argyle St. North. Highway 6 then turns north on

17466-459: The whole alignment of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Lower Mainland a freeway. All bypassed sections of the highway were absorbed into various urban and rural road networks. The older freeways in the Lower Mainland were largely built as a parkway design, with wide, forested medians and low overpasses (a road configuration that was common across North America at the time). After the opening of

17608-487: The winter when inclement weather can make the steep grade virtually impassable. At Sault Ste. Marie, the main route turns eastward for 291 km (181 mi) to Sudbury . The mainline route then continues east from Sudbury for 151 km (94 mi) to North Bay. The northern route rejoins the mainline here, which continues 339 km (211 mi) to Arnprior , where it widens to a freeway and becomes Highway 417 . The freeway continues to Ottawa passing through

17750-525: Was approved by the Trans-Canada Highway Act of 1949, with construction commencing in 1950. The highway officially opened in 1962, with the completion of the Rogers Pass section of highway between Golden and Revelstoke . This section of highway bypassed the original Big Bend Highway, the last remaining section of gravel highway on the route. Upon its original completion, the Trans-Canada Highway

17892-437: Was completed in 1967, and recommended a new controlled-access highway to allow through-traffic on Highway 6 to bypass the city. Route planning, engineering and design began on October 2, 1967 and was subsequently completed in 1969. Construction began between Waterloo Avenue and Stone Road in 1970; this section opened on June 28, 1972. The next section, from Stone Road to Clair Road, opened in October 1973. Work on

18034-616: Was completed on August 30, 2007, with the new Park Bridge and Ten Mile Hill sections opening up 16 km (9.9 mi) of new four-lane highway. Other smaller four-lane widening projects on the Trans-Canada Highway in the interior of British Columbia were also built around the same time. As part of the Gateway Program , 37 km (23 mi) of congested four-lane Highway 1 freeway in Metro Vancouver were widened to an eight-lane buildout starting in 2012. This project continues into

18176-480: Was composed of sections from pre-existing provincial highways, it is unlikely that the Trans-Canada Highway will ever have a uniform designation across the whole country. Unlike the Interstate Highway System in the United States, the Trans-Canada Highway system has no national construction standard, and it was originally built mostly as a two-lane highway with few multi-lane freeway sections, similar to

18318-468: Was converted in 2009 to a freeway with an interchange at York Road. The interchange opened on May 23, 2009, and simultaneously, the intersection where Northcliffe/Plains Road met Highway 6 was closed permanently. A new service road was built on either side to connect Plains Road and various other residential streets to the York Road interchange. Previously a four lane arterial road with a centre turning lane, it

18460-529: Was decommissioned south of Hepworth to Highway 21. The entire length of Highway 70 was subsequently renumbered Highway 6 to rectify the discontinuity. On the same day, the section between the southern terminus at former Highway 24 to the west side of the Lynn River . These reduced the length of Highway 6 from 488.5 kilometres (303.5 mi) to 472.4 kilometres (293.5 mi). A new 9.7-kilometre-long (6.0 mi) segment of Highway 6

18602-523: Was designated in Bruce County, from Wiarton north to Tobermory. The section within Grey County was designated several months later on November 3. The lone remaining section of what would eventually become today's Highway 6, across Manitoulin Island, was not designated until December 7, 1955. The entirety of Highway 68 eventually became part of Highway 6 in the early to mid- 1980. Under

18744-508: Was hired by the Canada Company to survey a line between Guelph and a new town site on the southern shore of Georgian Bay known as Sydenham. The Canada Company was formed by several British investors to purchase, open, and settle the Huron Tract , a vast wilderness stretching from Guelph north to Georgian Bay and west to Lake Huron. Rankin's line crossed too many natural obstacles, a result of

18886-399: Was largely open by the late 1930s, it was not fully completed until 1951 (in large part due to World War II interrupting construction). However, despite the gap, vehicles could still cross the county by getting ferried around the relatively short section of incomplete highway by either rail or water, and Highway 11 was completed to Hearst from the east by 1937 and Nipigon by 1943. The system

19028-526: Was largely untouched by provincial downloading . Highway 6 is one of two highways in Ontario (the other being Highway 33 ) broken into two segments by a ferry. The Chi-Cheemaun ferry serves automobile traffic, connecting Tobermory with South Baymouth between May and October. Highway 6 begins at Saint Patrick Street in the community of Port Dover, and stretches northward as a two-lane, undivided highway. The road travels into Haldimand County , through communities such as Jarvis and Hagersville , and

19170-509: Was leased by Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in March 1930 and control of the bridge passed at this time to the CPR. Due to navigable waters protection legislation, the CPR policy was to leave the bridge's swing span in the open position at all times for marine traffic, except when a train needed to cross. In 1946, the CPR and the provincial Department of Highways of Ontario came to an agreement that saw

19312-611: Was made available to some provinces for portions of the system, the federal government ultimately decided to not pursue a comprehensive limited-access highway conversion. Opposition to funding the limited-access widening was due to low traffic levels on parts of the Trans-Canada Highway. Prior to the start of the Great Recession in 2008, the highway underwent some changes through the Rocky Mountains from Banff National Park to Golden , British Columbia. A major piece of this project

19454-468: Was opened in 1960 with the completion of the Second Narrows Crossing , which allowed the Trans-Canada Highway to bypass downtown Vancouver's streets and the narrow Lions Gate Bridge . The four-lane Upper Levels Freeway was relatively-crudely constructed, with narrow lanes, low overpasses, and no proper merge ramps. It remains in this state in the present day . Between 1962 and 1964, Highway 1

19596-527: Was opened to the southwest of John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport in 2004. This building of this route had been planned since the construction of the Caledonia Bypass in 1983. However, concrete plans were not announced until January 1993. However, it had already drawn criticism due to an old-growth forest located in the path of the route. The planned highway would cost a projected $ 100 million. However, these plans never came to fruition, and by 1997

19738-546: Was rerouted onto a new four-lane freeway bypass between Vancouver and Chilliwack . This section of highway was originally part of British Columbia's own 400 series of highways , until the designation was replaced by Highway 1. A freeway alignment on the Trans-Canada Highway between Chilliwack and Hope opened in 1986. The opening of the Cassiar Tunnel in 1990 bypassed the last sets of signal lights in Vancouver, rendering

19880-447: Was short lived however, as Highway   5 was redirected west from Clappison's Corners to Peters Corners to meet Highway   8 on May   25, 1927. Highway   6, in turn, assumed the route of Highway   5 south to Jarvis. The route was extended further west in 1930, when the newly-renamed Department of Highways (DHO) assumed the road from Highway   8 at Peters Corners to Highway   24 west of St. George , as well as

20022-467: Was the longest uninterrupted highway in the world. Construction on other legs continued until 1971, when the last gap on Highway 16 was completed in the Upper Fraser Valley east of Prince George , at which point the highway network was considered complete. When the Trans-Canada Highway first opened, it was almost exclusively a two-lane route for its whole length across the country. While at

20164-479: Was the truncation of Highway 17 at the western end of Highway 417. 1990 saw the opening of the two-lane Kenora Bypass , providing through traffic with a way to avoid the congested town. Starting in the 1960s, Quebec began to build its Autoroute network. Many sections of Trans-Canada Highway were widened to freeway standards during that era of highway construction. Starting in 1987, New Brunswick began to widen its section of TCH to four lanes. Work to make

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