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Trans-Canada Highway

It has been said that it would have been more sensible to have made the boundaries between the separate countries of North America run north-south instead of east-west. For example, the wheat farmers of Saskatchewan and Kansas have more in common with each other than with their respective fellow countrymen to their east or west.

For the European immigrants, the rivers formed the first means of transportation across the USA and Canada, followed by the wagon trails and then the transcontinental railroads.

Nowadays, apart from the airline routes, the Interstate highways of the USA and Canada's Trans-Canada Highway bind each country together.

The Trans-Canada Highway, with its green and white maple leaf highway marker, runs all the way from St John's in Newfoundland to Vancouver Island in British Columbia, a distance of nearly five thousand miles. Picture (14KB)

The Trans-Canada Highway varies from a two-lane road to a limited access divided highway (motorway). It also varies from fairly boring to highly scenic, with the section through the Canadian Rockies being an obvious highlight.

The Trans-Canada Highway is not a single route. For example, there are two routes through northern Ontario, and in the west the Yellowhead Highway forms a more northerly alternative to the main Trans-Canada Highway.

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