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BC Road Trip Time Machine

What is So Important about Phase Four of the Kicking Horse Canyon?

October 6, 2022February 17, 2017 41 Comments

Rushing rivers and soaring mountains make for a beautiful road trip, but when it comes to widening and improving highways, those same breathtaking features can pose an incredible challenge. Few highways in BC are more

Categories BC Projects, BC Travellers

Travel Back in Time to the Hope – Princeton Highway in 1966

December 15, 2022September 22, 2016 46 Comments

As many of you already know, we’ve been digitizing 16mm photolog footage from 1966 to give you our BC Road Trip Time Machine video series. We love this stuff and you do to. In fact,

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

How To Travel Back in Time on Vancouver Island Highways

January 6, 2023June 23, 2016 42 Comments

Does the busy modern world have you wishing you could step back in time? We’re happy to say your wish has been granted with this trip down memory lane (or highway)! Climb aboard our BC

Categories BC Travellers

BC Road Trip Time Machine – Prince Rupert to Terrace in 1966

August 2, 2023April 12, 2016 19 Comments

Join us on a Highway 16 road trip from 50 years ago, through some of BC’s most spectacular natural landscapes – Prince Rupert to Terrace. The folks in our Skeena District office travelled this segment

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers, Road Maintenance

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Lytton to Revelstoke, circa 1966

November 17, 2020February 25, 2016 23 Comments

You asked for this one and we are happy to deliver it. Step back in time with us as we travel BC Highway 1 from Lytton to Revelstoke, circa 1966. This super cool, historical photolog

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
Ministry trucking being loaded

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
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