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BC Road Trip Time Machine: Hope to Lytton on BC Highway 1, circa 1966

November 10, 2021January 22, 2016 42 Comments

You asked for it and here it is. Hop aboard our BC Road Trip Time Machine and travel back to Highway 1, through the Fraser Canyon from Hope to Lytton, circa 1966. The significance of

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

BC Road Trip Time Machine: BC Highway 3A, Nelson to Balfour

November 17, 2022December 7, 2015 2 Comments

The Kootenays. No tour of BC would be complete without a visit to this special corner of the province, especially a Road Trip Time Machine tour. So, get in, strap on your seat belt and

Categories Trucking

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Highway 99 from Horseshoe Bay to Squamish

November 16, 2022September 10, 2015 20 Comments

 Get in and buckle up because this episode of our BC Road Trip Time Machine is set to take you on one curvy highway – Highway 99 from Horseshoe Bay to Squamish to be

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Cruising Highway 97 from PG to Dawson Creek

November 16, 2022August 11, 2015 Leave a comment

Hop aboard the latest episode of our 1966 road trip series – Highway 97 from Prince George to Dawson Creek. It’s a long ride, so we have broken it into three segments for you to

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

The Return of the Garbage Gobbler to BC Highways

November 16, 2022July 31, 2015 30 Comments

Do you remember the Garbage Gobbler? Created in the 1950s and placed across the province in B.C. Parks and at points along BC highways in order to “Keep Beautiful British Columbia, Clean and Beautiful,” Garbage

Categories BC Travellers
BC Highway road trip

Road Trip Time Machine: BC Highway 97 – U.S. Border to Vernon, circa 1966

October 17, 2022June 5, 2015 28 Comments

As some of you already know, we’ve been digging deep into storage and digitizing 16mm photolog footage from 1966 to give you our BC Road Trip Time Machine video series. (“Photologs” were created to capture

Categories BC Travellers

Ride the BC Road Trip Time Machine: Highway 1 and Port Mann Bridge 1966

October 6, 2022March 25, 2015 4 Comments

By now, you may have already experienced what it’s like to go back in time through our BC Road Trip Time Machine series. Using an old 16 mm reel from our Photolog program archives, we

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

BC RoadTrip Time Machine: The Malahat, circa 1966

August 19, 2022February 10, 2015 6 Comments

A while back, we posted an invitation to Drive a BC Highway in 15,000 Photos. It was a fast-paced tour of the Coquihalla Highway from 2008 and an introduction to our Photolog program. That post

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
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