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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
Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal 1966

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

November 17, 2020July 30, 2019 21 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
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

Your Top TranBC Engineering Stories

April 1, 2021March 6, 2017 5 Comments

In Canada, we celebrate National Engineering and Geoscience Month in March, highlighting the importance of engineering as a career and its impact on our daily lives. Engineering is such a HUGE part of what we

Categories BC Infrastructure, Careers
Road Trip Time Machine

1966 Time Machine Videos Take Exciting New Trips

November 17, 2020August 8, 2016 4 Comments

When we firsted started putting together the BC Road Trip Time Machine series, we thought they’d be interesting to share and a cool way to look back at our beautiful province 50 years ago. We’ve

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips

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
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 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

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