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BC Highway History

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Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal 1966

Back in the Day: Time Travel from Victoria to Sidney in 1966

November 17, 2020July 30, 2019 19 Comments

Hey Victoria! Are you ready for your time travel close up? That’s right folks, we’ve pointed our BC Road Trip Time Machine at Highway 17 on Vancouver Island and captured the provincial capital as it

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
A Brief History of the BC Highway Traffic Patrol

A Brief History of the BC Highway Traffic Patrol

September 3, 2019May 16, 2019 40 Comments

Most folks born in the 1970s or earlier will probably remember the smash television hit, CHiPs. The show followed the adventures of two California highway patrol officers as they kept state highways running safely and

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers, Trucking

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Travel Highway 7 from Burnaby to Maple Ridge in 1966

October 7, 2021March 22, 2019 12 Comments

British Columbia history nerds rejoice! We’ve got a new Road Trip Time Machine video for you. In this episode, our flux capacitor (aka photolog) will take us back to 1966 for a cruise along BC

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

Telling the Story of BC’s Japanese Internment Past

October 22, 2021October 12, 2018 11 Comments

Highlighting BC highway history is important – and that doesn’t just mean shining a light on the gleaming parts of our past – it also includes bringing light to those darker parts of our history

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

See the Construction of the Fraser Canyon Highway in Historical Photos

June 9, 2022August 2, 2018 124 Comments

History and infrastructure nerds rejoice! We’ve collected a stunning group of photographs documenting the construction of the Fraser Canyon Highway beginning in the 1920s, and moving into the 30s, 40s and 50s. We’re excited to

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
Highway 97 Lettering

The Story of the Highway 97 Alphabet

July 11, 2022June 29, 2018 34 Comments

Scan around Canada’s highway system and you’ll find that BC is the only province to have an A, B, C and D version of a highway. In this province, those letters are tagged onto Highway

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers
Highway 12 Lytton Lillooet

Travel Back in Time to the Interior of BC as it was in 1966

August 26, 2022June 19, 2018 29 Comments

Are you ready? It’s time to hop on board our BC Road Trip Time Machine and travel back to 1966. This time we are driving Highway 8 from Merritt to Spences Bridge, Highway 12 from

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BC Highway History Alert! More Snapshots in Time Revealed

November 1, 2021January 9, 2018 45 Comments

Are you a BC Highways history nerd? If so – GET READY! We promised you more amazing historical images after our first historical snapshots blog  and we are delivering on that promise. Don’t consider yourself

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