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BC Highway History

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BC Road Trip Time Machine: Highway 97 from Cache Creek to Prince George in 1966

September 12, 2023December 21, 2022 2 Comments

Great Scott! If our calculations are correct, the flux capacitor has taken our beloved BC Road Trip Time Machine back to Highway 97 – between Cache Creek and Prince George – as it was during

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers
Two residential school survivors painting bridge orange

How Repainting Orange Bridge Strengthens Reflection and Healing

January 4, 2023October 19, 2022 3 Comments

Reactions to the orange bridge paint now covering parts of the Riverbend Bridge in Port Alberni prove that an infrastructure improvement doesn’t have to be physically large in scale to have major positive impacts on

Categories BC Highway History

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Highway 3 from Princeton to Alberta Border, 1966

August 16, 2022 22 Comments

History nerds – get ready! We’ve fired up the Road Trip Time Machine and pointed it at BC Highway 3 for a look at this iconic road as it was between Princeton and Crowsnest on

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

How We Helped Prevent Avalanches with Reforestation on Highway 3

August 3, 2021June 17, 2021 14 Comments

A terrible scar on a beautiful landscape, the “Big Burn” on BC Highway 3 in Manning Provincial Park, was a striking reminder of the damaging impact of forest fire for many years. Many British Columbians

Categories Avalanche Program, BC Highway History
Fernie Weigh Scale, circa 1962

Throwback Look at BC’s Historical Commercial Weigh Scale Stations

November 9, 2022February 26, 2021 6 Comments

Weigh scale inspection stations didn’t always look like they do today. They were small, simple and unassuming structures but they were BIG when it came to the safety of commercial transport in BC. We’re talking

Categories BC Highway History, Commercial Vehicles

A Look Back at the BC Provincial Sign Shop

September 25, 2020June 18, 2020 25 Comments

Signage on BC highways is an essential tool to help us communicate information to motorists about the road ahead. Whether a regulatory, warning, or guide sign is called for, we make sure our signs are

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Travel Back to Highway 14 in 1966

November 27, 2020May 14, 2020 15 Comments

Get in and buckle up! Our beloved BC Road Trip Time Machine is back in action. This time we set our “flux capacitor” to Highway 14 (also known as West Coast Road) during the spring

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

A BC Highways Perspective of the Hope Slide

October 25, 2023January 8, 2020 76 Comments

It was the largest known landslide in Canadian history. The Hope Slide forever changed the landscape of the Nicolum Valley in the Cascade Mountain Range, tragically taking the lives of four motorists who were on

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
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