Talk:Trans-Canada Highway

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[edit] Adding Mile By Mile External Links

I'm in the process of adding external links to he highway guides I've created for many North American Highway. Someone suggested that I should let the highway community know I'm doing that so they don't think I'm link spamming. I've got detailed photos and text of lots of stuff along the highways in Canada, Mexico and USA. I'd welcome your thoughts on my project and the links. If folks want to use photos (I've got thousands of lovely photos) from my highway guides for Wikipedia , feel free to use them but do give credit. Thanks, James Love James Love 13:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

everything ya said sounds great, go ahead and do it. ( : 131.202.129.34 15:05, 16 March 2006

[edit] Green 0m marker

I live in Victoria and I am quite sure the picture of the green 0m marker is not marking the start of the Trans-Canada Highway but rather a trail system that runs along the beach (m = metres, not miles). Look in the background of the picture and you can even see the paved trail. The Mile '0' sign is the only official marking point that I know of.

[edit] error correction

"The longest continuous stretch of highway in the Trans-Canada Highway system is recognized as the longest national highway in the world, at 7,821 km, taking into account the distance travelled on ferries"

This is obviously wrong. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_1_%28Australia%29

[edit] Original route

From an undated - probably 1980s - official map of Canada:

  • 1, Victoria to Ontario
  • 17, Manitoba to Sudbury
  • 69, Sudbury to Coldwater
  • 12, Coldwater to Sunderland
  • 7, Sunderland to Ottawa
  • 17 (not 417!), Ottawa to Quebec
  • 40, Ontario to Montreal
  • unknown through Montreal
  • 20, Montreal to Riviere-du-Loup
  • 185, Riviere-du-Loup to New Brunswick
  • 2, Quebec to Nova Scotia
  • 104, New Brunswick to Mulgrave
  • 105, Mulgrave to North Sydney
  • 1, Channel-Port aux Basques to St. Johns

And a spur:

  • 16, Sackville to Cape Tormentine
  • 1, Borden to at Wood Islands
  • 106, Caribou to New Glasgow

There are no shields of any sort on the Charlottetown-New Glasgow piece, but an inset map of the main highways bolds only the TCH, and bolds this. --SPUI (T - C) 00:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

A 1996 Gousha atlas gives the following names in Ontario (but not Quebec):

  • Lake Superior Route: Manitoba or Kenora to Sudbury or North Bay
  • Voyager Route: Kenora to west of Thunder Bay via 71 and 11
  • Northern Route: east of Thunder Bay to Quebec or North Bay
  • Ottawa Valley Route: North Bay, Sudbury or 66 to Quebec
  • Georgian Bay Route: Sudbury to somewhere near Toronto
  • Central Ontario Route: near Toronto to west of Ottawa
  • Chapleau Route (not TCH): Wawa to Thessalon via 101 and 129

--SPUI (T - C) 00:39, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

This 1955 map shows the TCH. "Note that no portion of this highway is shown for Quebec as that province was not a party to the Federal-Provincial agreements concerning construction of the highway in the 1950s." The route is the same as on the 1980s map except that it used the Chapleau Route, present 169 and 11 from Foot's Bay to Orillia, 2 rather than 104 in western Nova Scotia, and present 23 to Wood Islands on PEI. --SPUI (T - C) 00:52, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

1967 agrees with the 1980s map.

1981 shows some alternate routes:

  • Kenora to Thunder Bay via 71 and 11
  • Thunder Bay to Ottawa via 11 and 17
  • not clear if Sudbury to North Bay is included

--SPUI (T - C) 01:05, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

2002: Ontario Quebec shows the current routes, except 66 is omitted in Ontario - typo? --SPUI (T - C) 01:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Info in New Brunswick - note that Route 95 is part of the same planning:

"The Governments of Canada and New Brunswick are each contributing $10 million to twin 12 kilometres of Route 95 between Woodstock and the U.S. border into a four-lane divided highway, linking the Trans-Canada Highway to the border crossing."

--SPUI (T - C) 23:23, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Driver's-eye-view pictures of highway

Since the route of the TCH is described in this article going eastbound, any such pictures should show the eastbound direction as well.  Denelson83  07:42, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Now that would be POV... literarily --66.82.9.49 15:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History, politics, construction

This article is so lacking! -b 04:42, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes it definately needs to be expanded. It would also be nice to see where the highway is 4 lanes and where it is only 2 lanes. Suoerh2 08:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia re:name

Is there a source for "except residents of PEI who are known to refer to 'The One'?" I'm unfamilliar with this reference. --Nullhyp 10:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

My delete key itches when I look at the trivia section. I really needs sourcing and integration into the article. — Saxifrage ✎ 19:09, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Winnipeg-Ottawa re: Terry Fox

The status of Terry Fox overlooking the highway and the lake does not mark the spot where he ended his run. He ended the run about 5km east, in Shuniah. It is marked by a small white sign, originally placed by the province but maintained by a local individual. Vidioman 00:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notes about branches

In 1965, there were two routes in Ontario, between Ottawa and Sudbury: the Ottawa Valley Route (17) and Central Ontario Route/Georgian Bay Route (7/12/103/69, changing name at Orillia).[1]

Other routes appear to be:

  • Lake Superior Route (Highway 17, Sudbury to Manitoba)
  • Northern Ontario Route (Highway 11, North Bay to Nipigon; spur on Highway 66 to Quebec)
  • Voyageur Route (Highways 11 and 71, west of Thunder Bay to east of Kenora): no longer signed

--NE2 11:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)