How The TransCanada Highway Changed Canada

🍁 Canada's iconic TransCanada Highway changed Canada! How? 🚗 Join us on a breathtaking 7,821km road trip that delves into the rich history and transformative impact of this scenic route, forever altering Canada's future. 🌲

📜 Uncover the historical significance of the TransCanada Highway, tracing its origins, construction challenges, and the pivotal role it played in connecting the vast expanses of this diverse and beautiful country. Discover how this highway became a lifeline for communities, an economic driver, and a symbol of national pride.

🌐 As we navigate through the scenic wonders and cultural landmarks along the way, you'll gain a profound understanding of the impact this highway had on Canada's development.

🔍 Dive deep into the heart of Canada's past and present with us! Whether you're a history enthusiast, a travel junkie, or simply curious about the road less traveled, this video is your ticket to an unforgettable journey.

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🎬 Thanks for joining us on this unforgettable journey! Get ready to experience the TransCanada Highway like never before. Safe travels! 🌍🇨🇦

[trailblazedHQ]

Have you ever driven Canada's TransCanada highway across Canada? Do you remember when it was built? Let us know what you think of Canada's TransCanada Highway and how it's impacted Canada's path as a nation! Thanks for watching!

[abiracmd]

Fast forward to today where it took 5 years to build a 7 mile addition on a local highway. I know there was less politics/existing infrastructure to deal with but the speed at which these crews built roads over some of the most difficult terrain was incredible.

[tyfrank]

There is misinformation on this. I'm sure the official opening was 1962. Second of all it was 956 years old in 1867 and the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in 1885. The route on the map is incorrect. There is a need to bring most of the TCH up to Interstate standards. There is still too much 2 lane on it. Although there is more than one highway with the TCH badge, we need a more extensive system.

[colletteseders]

I have driven from Halifax to Vancouver 11 times. On the first trip, I was 11 years old, and I was the navigator. My Dad taught me how to use the map, and I was in charge of getting all the turns correct.

However, this video has a LOT of misinformation. Canada was NOT a brand new country in 1950. It became a nation in 1867. By the time the TC H was begun, it was nearly 100 years old. Also on one graphic in the video, it shows the highway travelling along the north shore of the St Lawrence, and across Labrador to the north end of Newfoundland. It does NOT go there. It stays on the south shore of the St Lawrence through Quebec, east of Quebec City, and then turns south through New Brunswick, crosses into Nova Scotia, and then NE to Sydney, where the ferry will take travellers across to Newfoundland.

Not mentioned in the video, is the branch which angles from Hwy 1 to head north west on Hwy16, to go to Whitehorse, Yukon. There is also another branch in Nova Scotia, which goes SE to Halifax.

[bwan]

It was this highway that basically ended canadian transcontinental passenger train travel

[Laggenbaggers]

Just saying the trans Canada highway does not go on the coquahala

[canadagood]

Your route maps are laughable. The actual route through Ontario and Quebec generally hugs the north shore of Lake Superior. Then from Montreal it is never north of the St Lawrence River.
Until the Trans-Canada was opened, almost any road traffic between Ontario and British Columbia would involve at least one diversion into the United States.
While the highway is scenic and important, I would argue that Winnipeg and Calgary are industrial hubs because of the trans-continental railways and air routes; not the trans-continental highways. For industry and commerce the north-south highways into the United States have been at least as important.

[briantownsend]

Garbage AI text-to-voice.... nope, done, not watching to the end...too bad as it's an interesting topic

[beefweiner]

70 years later and most of its still 2 lanes, I'm embarrassed to be Canadian but this isn't the main reason

[marryson]

Its not even a full Freeway system like the American Interstate. The most effective way to drive across Canada is still using the US interstate system.

The Trans Canada highway is a Trans Canada paved road at best. Cant call it a Highway.

[leeenfield]

So many half-truths and outright mistakes! F.D.R. mandated massive public works projects during the the Depression circa 1930... including bridges, roads and dams. Canada had the massive problem of the Canadian Shield to contend with. And people who believe faster transport is some sort of Holy Grail... I suggest encouraging industry and populationvcenters to spread widely might have discouraged
our friends to the south looking on Canada as a wanna be 51st state... Canada has been cursed over the past 70 years with a political class with no imagination and a childish desire to to cater to corporations.