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Search Results for: Time machine

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

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips
washout and recovery

What Happens After a Washout Hits a Highway

November 21, 2021May 1, 2018 7 Comments

Everybody loves spring. I mean, what’s not to like about balmy afternoons and BC in bloom? But as wonderful as spring can be, it also has a wild side (called freshet), as rapidly melting snowpack

Categories Flooding, Road Maintenance

BC Highway History Alert! More Snapshots in Time Revealed

November 1, 2021January 9, 2018 47 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

Categories BC Highway History

BC Road Trip Time Machine: See Vancouver as it was in 1966

October 2, 2018November 1, 2017 19 Comments

Hey Vancouver! Get ready for a ride down memory lane because our BC Road Trip Time Machine is heading your way. Our archival photolog footage rolls its way from Horseshoe Bay, through West Vancouver, over

Categories BC Highway History

Snapshots in Time: Who is the “Highways Department”?

October 7, 2020September 19, 2017 29 Comments

If you’ve visited us here before, you probably know that sometimes, we like to kick it old school. We throw it back here, on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with pictures, video and stories about how

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

Why Building of the Alaska Highway is Still an Epic Feat Decades Later

September 26, 2022May 24, 2017 39 Comments

Driven by wartime urgency, the building of the Alaska Highway remains an epic accomplishment, decades later. The heroic efforts by US soldiers who in only eight months, built a 2,400-kilometre route through wilderness while enduring extraordinary hardships, will always be the foundation of this storied route.

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips
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