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[@robertpearson8798]

It only looks like the wrong side of the road because you’re viewing it upside down from the bottom half of the planet.

[@robertpearson8798]

P.S. -You’re holding your mug from the wrong side, the handle’s on the other side. Don’t make me ask for it back.😉

[@peggirl152]

😂

[@pamelalambe1356]

@@robertpearson8798 laughing.

[@danmayberry1185]

I drove the TCH from Vancouver Island to Prince Edward Island, only 6,000 km, bought a house and still live here (easier than driving back).

[@sergebrunet4218]

Good for you ! lol ! very different ! I started my trucking carreer trucking PEI to Montreal and Toronto area ! was working for Big Wheels transport ! main terminal on PEI ! from 1986 to 1989 ! I am french from Montreal area ! 35 years trucking Canada and more ! lol

[@peterzimmer9549]

The Alaska highway is separate from the Trans Canada hwy.

[@timtwoface]

It is but they're both core routes in Canada's national highway system (though all but the TCH are "provincial" highways).

[@bumblerock4048]

The ferry from Nanaimo to Van travels on the TCH.

[@Zlata1313]

It takes a day to drive the section that runs north of the shore of Lake Superior, between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste Marie. Rocks, trees, water. Repeat.

[@gheald5245]

That's only a few hours. I drive from northwest Alberta to northeast Ontario every year. 2 day drive. 17 hours per day. Winnipeg is the half way mark. What you described is half a day at best

[@rowzielynwho202]

@@gheald5245 It’s 700 km from Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie. You drive pretty fast considering how many bored OPP there are patrolling that stretch of highway.

[@John-ed1lp]

yes Terry Fox did try...he got from St.John's Nfld to just east of Thunder Bay Ont, when he had to give up....unfortunately he died from his cancer shortly after. there is a memorial on the Trans-canada highway, just near Thunder Bay remembering his run

[@JayeEllis]

A very significant portion of Canada STILL belongs to the animals. Those overpasses are brilliant and beautiful.

[@michaeldowson6988]

I once rode the train from Ottawa to Edmonton; it took three days of around the clock travel. Travel between Alaska & the Lower 48 is by the Inside Passage in British Columbia. That allows ships to miss the stormy weather on the open Pacific, driving shipping onto a lee shore. That coast was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific. The Canadian Pacific Railway played a large part in the development of Canada. They built a transcontinental railway with a string of Grand Railway Hotels, hired Swiss people to introduce mountaineering and skiing to Canadians to make Banff National Park a big tourist destination, and established two fleets of ocean crossing passenger ships, so travelling between Australia or Hong Kong & the UK by ship & railway meant not having to sail around the dire Cape Horn. In its' heyday it would have been the worlds' largest transport network.

[@MAB_Canada]

As far as I know Terry Fox was running along the Trans Canada until he had to quit at Thunder Bay.

[@Zlata1313]

Yes! He dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic in Newfoundland and intended to dip it in the Pacific in Victoria. He was just east of Thunder Bay when he had to stop. I've always stopped at the statue of him they put up at the spot his run ended. Beautiful tribute to a Canadian icon

[@koenv5740]

I did visit that spot on my trip from Toronto to Thunder Bay

[@peggirl152]

It was actually Marathon

[@lauriegunn9636]

When we get on the Highway from here we can hang a left to Winnipeg (about 4/5 hours), and hang a right to Regina (about an hour), or carry on through Moose Jaw, Swift Current (Speedy Creek-lol), Medicine Hat and Calgary (about 9 hours away).

[@aussietashreacts]

Lets do it :)

[@robertpearson8798]

Hamilton is at the Western end of Lake Ontario and the birthplace of Tim Hortons where your mug came from. Good luck with the Olympics, it took Quebecers three decades to pay off the Olympic Stadium, “The Big O” or as some called it “The Big Owe”.

[@carlop.7182]

We also call it the Big Bowl (as in toilet)--so much corruption money disappeared in this project, that its worth calling it toilet bowl.

[@aussietashreacts]

Cheers mate :)

[@majoriedc]

​@@carlop.7182Also because it looks like a toilet bowl 😂

[@elvishemeon389]

Being from Newfoundland and living in Ontario, my TCH travel has been from Ontario to Nfld , many times. I never tire of the beauty I see on my travels. Thats only the eastern half. I've never ventured west but I can only imagine the beauty. Maybe some day. Just a tidbit, back when TCH was done in Nfld it was just 2 lanes and the pavement was red. Most of the gravel pits were red rock and stone and when crushed for pavement iy came out red. Nowadays some of the highway is 4 lane and the newer areas are blacktop. I was surprised when I traveled to Ontario back in 72 to see black ashphalt highways ... :)

[@davidkillens8143]

Yonge Street. In 1956, when I was 6 years old my father was transferred from Toronto to Red Deer, Alberta. I do not remember many fine details but he loaded up the wife and four of us kids in the car and off we went. But most of our journey was in the US. We crossed at Detroit and somewhere around The Dakotas returned north to Canada. I distinctly remember we took a rickety ferry across one river, passing through Moose Jaw (who can ever forget that name?) and also crossing through the Alberta badlands. Yea, before the Trans Canada, it was really rough and hard to drive across Canada. I experienced Canadian highways as a child before the completion of the highway, and it was a rough long trip.

[@wjdietrich]

Yonge Street. The cost and difficulty of building the western part of the Trans Canada Highway was due to the terrain ( the Rocky Mountains) more than being "untouched", as most of Canada is(still). The Trans Canada crosses East/West not up into the North - there are very few roads, let alone highways, that go up into the northern 2/3rds (Arctic) parts(Territories) of Canada and much of it can only be reached by plane. Roads in these areas are mostly for the mining industries, have few inhabitants - so the cost is prohibitive. Canada's northern infrastructure and populations are limited more due to the terrain/geography(as is most of Canada) than the extreme weather - lots of forests,lakes,rivers,bogs - making it practically uninhabitable for humans. The Alaska Highway is NOT a part of the Trans Canada Highway, but was built/funded by the USA at their request, I believe, and then later compensated for by Canada.

[@stephenpublicover8818]

Hey Aussie Tash, We drive on the right side of the road! Not the LEFT!! lol , we didn't copy the brits!

[@juliansmith4295]

Actually, we did "copy" the Brits, like every other commonwealth country. We only switched to driving on the right because the Yanks told us to in the 30's, and as always, we just did what we were told.

[@terryomalley1974]

​​@@juliansmith4295 That's not really accurate. The reason Canada switched to driving on the right was two-fold: until the 1970's, virtually all autos sold and driven in Canada were from the "Big 3" automakers in Detroit, Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Those companies weren't going to pay the added expense of an extra assembly line to build left-side steering for the Canadian market, which only 9% of the total North American market. Secondly, for trade and travel reasons, the Canadian highway system was set up to be interoperable with the US interstate system. It would have been highly confusing and awkward to have to switch to driving on the opposite side of the road just because you crossed the border.

[@ElsaDewitt]

Memory of driving across to Ontario from BC ....was stretches, long stretches of boring prairie roads...lol.

[@howardhales6325]

I'm in Northwestern Ontario, west of Thunder Bay. I remember my father telling me about a trip to Winnipeg with my grandfather in the early 1950s. They had to go down into the United States and come back up into Manitoba (around Lake of the Woods). The Trans Canada was supposed to go through that area, but the crossing at the Ontario/Manitoba border was a nightmare.

[@ElsaDewitt]

I love your Whistler hoodie, one of my favourite places to spend a few days! The hiking trails are fantastic and the village has great shopping, good restaurants and pubs.

[@jimturner3301]

Hey Tash, When they built the Trans Canada Highway, it was not a single road built from coast to coast. Sometimes it was a matter of upgrading and linking up existing regional networks. But it was a huge undertaking just the same. In Ontario, there are actually two routes. The one northern route is Highway 11, which actually starts as Yonge Street in Toronto and goes north and west 1,900 km to Thunder Bay. There is also a southern "Georgian Bay Route" that services the Great Lakes communities. I am going to post some pictures for you in the Today's Video Discussion section on Discord.

[@linadorey7844]

Since we retired we have been visiting Canada. We have visited Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia , Alberta, BC, New Brunswick , a section of Quebec ( it’s really big) And this year we are in Newfoundland. My dream was to see whales and we saw a big group of Orcas they were giving us a show. What beauties just amazing. There not a place in Canada I don’t feel at home. We’re heading to St-Johns in 4 days. We stay at least 3 months in a province.When. We leave the province we made friends and we know our Canada. I just love my country.

[@canadianmike626]

We need to do the wildlife overpasses on all roads in the mountains. We just had 4 grizzly bears kill on the mountain roads. Two were just tiny cub. We also have the TransCanada bike paths that allow one to bike from coast to coast.

[@susanjohnson1105]

Left hand side of road was in BC and the eastern maritime Provinces of PEI, NB and NS until about 1923 or so. The Pan-American Highway (American meaning North American and South American) runs from Ushuala on the southern tip of South America to Prudoe Bay (on the Arctic Ocean) in Alaska. It includes the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek BC Canada to Fairbanks Alaska. When I was doing a job in near Inuvik, Northwest Territories we drove 150 km north to Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean. We ran into two men from Argentina on bicycles who did the Pan-Am Highway. They took a side trip to “ Tuk ” as the locals say. Later they were heading south to Dawson City (of Klondike Gold Rush fame) and then on to Prudoe Bay. They saw on the map they were going to go through Chicken, Alaska (near the Yukon border) and thought they might do a 150km (300km round trip) diversion North to Eagle and were wondering if I’d been to Eagle. Unfortunately I had only been to Chicken! After that they were heading to china by plane. They wanted to go to Russia but said they are “ crazy government” but China (Beijing) nice and very happy they come! The only other break before that was the the Darien Gap in Panama because it is roadless swamp, tangled trees, steep mountains and dense rainforest that no one has tasked yet. No doubt the fact that next door Columbia is a corrupt and violent country steeped in drug lords and general poverty 😢 ( so sad) has something to do with that.

[@unkyduck]

Damn robot voiceover ...."to St. John's S" ....3:45

[@MrNormaltoo]

lol..and for no reason at all.

[@danmayberry1185]

I've heard Newfie friends pronounce it that way .. after a few rums.

[@galenthom]

There is no "U" in Yonge Street.

[@CraftAero]

A lot of "reactors" will purposely make small mistakes to drive the comment section.

[@jamesbruce8749]

That blew my mind that it cost as much to go from the west coast through the Mountains as it took to make the rest of the road across the whole country. I have driven through the mountains from the coast and that is an amazing trip and the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen.

[@brendabromley5528]

I am completely enjoying your video's, you make me feel even prouder to be a Canadian🍁 I live in Vancouver and yes I know how lucky I am! 💯I have lived in the mountains of Banff (where I saw my 1st wolf!) and lived many yrs on Vancouver Island and a few yrs on Salt Spring Island (1 of the beautiful islands of the Gulf Islands cluster). I don't see any video's of you reviewing Vancouver Island. You really need to look into it, it is truly beautiful and very diverse. Expedia has a good travel video it skims the surface of the beauty.

[@timtwoface]

I've been to all 10 provinces and 3 territories but have yet to drive from coast to coast (to coast) in Canada....I've managed to drive much of the main route of the Trans-Canada but not from Regina to Ottawa and Truro to St. John's....so close!

[@sergebrunet4218]

I ve been on every km of the Trans Canada highway Coast to coast and Yukon and NWT. was a trucker for 35 years !

[@beccasmama63]

Yes Hamilton is in Ontario. It is about an hour away from where I live.

[@wocookie2277]

The man in motion, Rick Hansen, did it in a wheelchair.

[@georgecuyler7563]

Before it was the transcanada it was the Indigenous peoples trading trail, called the grease trail because we Westcoast native people took our ooligan grease to trade with our Eastern brother's and sisters. Also highway 16 is also a trade trail. You can still find trading trails here in British Columbia. This was taught to me by my foster dad and other WWII vets that I grew up under. Yup, I'm a sixties scoop survivor/warrior.

[@susanjohnson1105]

Thank you for this video. Brings back lots of memories. Yoho, Banff and Lake Louise Parks all on TCH and this is an extraordinarily beautiful section. Central Alberta to Western Ontario is a bit flat with endless straight stretches. Ontario in the autumn has abundent red and shades of red, orange and golden trees. The Maritimes of course is most interesting scenically and historically and Quebec is amazing - probably my fav part.

[@derekhorlock1976]

Even the Kicking Horse pass is now 4 lanes, should look it up, unbelievable job

[@pamelalambe1356]

Loving Sweet Tooth too!. I have driven from Zero to Zero Tran Canada Highway. St. John's to Victoria. Well your big over there so you know, is like many different places and different nature. Like a lot of countries as if was in Europe sizing. Great Highway, some work done to help the wild life, could have been better. It is wild big road.

[@user-nk7hl4ei4n]

Hiking along the course of the Trans Canada Highway.

[@peterk3227]

This highway was mostly funded through the Bank Of Canada , borrowing against the equity of Canada in accordance with The Banking Act of Canada .

[@shannanbrennan612]

Why does this make me so emotional.

[@derekhorlock1976]

The Alaska Hyw starts in Ft St John B.C

British Columbia is connected to the west coast of the United States by hwy99 and hwy 97 aswell

[@treynolds94]

Ive been on the stretch between Sudbury and Thunderbay a couple times now. Driving along Superior its absolutely unbelievable on how it would of been possible. You should check out the Trent Severn Waterway and the lock system. Iam in Peterborough with the worlds largest hydrolic liftlock.

[@judyyurchuk4904]

Terry almost made thunder bay, ontario ❤

[@northernpunx1978]

Oi Aussie Tash? When you gonna fly north to see it with them blue eyes? I’ll take you to see the nwt if you wanna. Lotsa things to experience. Cheers.

[@shelleybleu4903]

Not Alaska. That is a separate highway.

[@user-nk7hl4ei4n]

Walk from East to West on foot, and pitch a tent, which is the longest trail in the world.

[@davenoppe5405]

Tash: if you’re interested in a truly deep dive into what Canada is about I suggest this series: Canada The Story of Us. kzbin.info/aero/PLJyG4btas2dkKZXp5fxgeGWmbakN-KfM6&si=gZGST_MgYfZQiC75 It’s long but well worth watching. Makes my Canadian heart swell with pride 🇨🇦

[@harveygingras7466]

I've driven from Halifax to Victoria twice

[@alandodge6549]

I have driven across twice, took the train across as well. Great memories. I like your Whistler hoodie , I have one too.

We drive on the American side of the road since 1923 but we used to drive on the Australian /British side of the road before that.....

[@ivorholtskog5506]

Walk it, you know one guy ran it on one leg. Steve Fanyo. I know, spelling is wrong.

[@ivorholtskog5506]

Spelling is Fonyo.

[@BrimHawk]

The automobile was invented in Germany. Which side do they drive on?

[@beccasmama63]

technically we are using the RIGHT side of the road....since we drive on the right. LOL

[@randyruck2793]

incredible engineering

[@harveygingras7466]

Terry foxtravlex the trans Canada Highwat until his cancer returned and he ended his Marithon of Hope in ThunderBay today it's Terry Fox Day here in Manitoba he was born in Winnipeg

The Canadian Pacific Railway changed it more , Ontario still hasn't bothered to finish it properly....hwy 11 &17 are a complete joke....even British Columbia has almost completed 4 laning from Vancouver to the Alberta border

[@user-nk7hl4ei4n]

Canada, not so boring Eh! It also has a hiking trail that follows the TCH

[@pattaccone]

0:16 193 countries in the world You’re one of the only ones that doesn’t drive on the right side literally😂😂

[@Platinumdose420]

12:27 Have fun walking! ill be driving past waving! XD *theres aussietash walking thousands of miles not really knowing how huge the highway is * XD

[@aussietashreacts]

Oh i love it mate, cheers

[@susieq9801]

@@aussietashreacts - Hey, Terry Fox made it half way! ❤ Thunder Bay north of Lake Superior...and he diverged from the TCH a couple of times making his run even longer! Some of those water views near the end could also be the north shore of Superior.

[@shannanbrennan612]

❤

[@luckyskittles8976]

Great one! Maybe check out the building of the"Canadian Pacific Railway " built from 1881 to 1825 Ont. to BC in 4 years.

[@randyruck2793]

i was in aerospace not construction but the basics are the same

[@aussietashreacts]

Champion mate 😀

[@freakyflow]

Tash I will take your wrong side of the road..Fine....But you guys put the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car....How many times in your life have you walked over to the pass side just to remember your not on the driver side...lol .. Fun aside I Can tell you the further back history of the transCanada - At one time there was no roads or gravel paths 100% trees / bush / swamps And Canadian Shield (Hard rock ground) The Native people of Canada had very small paths to fields And homes But it was Canada's water system that gave the best routes of travel Later the Metis (Mixed French/English And Natives) That openned these pathways for the fur trade And hunting + settlements Many parts of the TransCanada was Metis pathways As many of parts of the highway inter-connects with the rivers And into the great lakes And other cities in the west ..The TransCan is 8 mins from my house I get to see all the tourists,Camper vans, road warriors etc ...Last weekend i seen a plate : Queensland The Sunshine state on the top of the camper And NWT sticker ..If they can do it so can you tash!...Do it while your still young All the best ! look forward to your next live stream..And thanks for the shout out : ) oxoxox ....Oh wait i mean ...ozozoz...oioioi !

[@harveygingras7466]

I recommend the 1997 folld of manitoba

[@MCscarfacematt]

WRONG we drive on the right in both meanings of the work the right-hand side and the correct side of the road. but fun fact we used to drive on the left side may 1st 1924 the last of the provinces at the time concerted to driving on the right. newfoundland didn't start until 1947 but that was only 2 years before they became part of Canada. and wrong again a few people have walked that 7,000km terry fox tried it passed in ontartio a guy tried it last year blew out his knee in New Brunswick currently ryan keeping is doing it he's made it all the way from saint johns and is currently in Saskatchewan but he took a longer route to take his charity run through bigger cities like toronto he's doing 75km a day. there's a portion that cus through the CFB gagetown the military base in NB that was also federal land the military still needed to cross so they built over passes but let it drow over to also allow wild life to cross. that same section has fences down each side with one way gates off the highway for wild life too get off the highway yes hamilton is in Ontario the QEW (Queen Elizabeth Way) runs from Toronto to Fort Erie through niagera falls. the funny thing about that clip at 13:15 is that's in Toronto well Etobicoke highway 27 is now highway 427 so if you go to google earth find the qew find the 427 interchange and that's where that clip was taken

[@marcelmoreau2733]

$1bil in 1955 translates to $11.4bil in 2024.

[@brendafraser5777]

Love your videos!

[@Z_TPI]

This is our only road. We travel by dog sled or polar bear to it where we park our cars on the plethora of frozen ice parking lots 😂

[@Sian-me9wy]

Pronunciation of St. John's @ 3.40 min

[@davidlefranc6240]

Nice video but seems like the biggest part of the world drive on this side!

[@Aughtel]

10:36 i hope that was a drone. Driving in oncoming traffic over a solid yellow line? Tsk tsk tsk.

[@daveroberts936]

driven the entire lenght of the rans canada multiple times; im a truck driver. Its a little weird seeing people getting so excited about a road! to be fair, the first time seeing a herd of goats on the road in the mountains was interesting; now, theyre just a bunch of damn goats in my way

[@sandrajewitt6050]

The Trans Canada doesn't go to the territories

[@0eagle4200]

my great great uncle is a Father of Confederation

[@susieq9801]

Happy Father's Day to him. 😊

[@terryomalley1974]

Which one?

[@0eagle4200]

@@terryomalley1974 A.A. Macdonald

[@terryomalley1974]

@@0eagle4200 Very cool! Any relation to Sir John A, by any chance?

[@0eagle4200]

@@terryomalley1974 no the family is not related to John A. but his name has come up as "that drunk" on occasions.. John A. was from central Canada Ottawa, the last name can get confusing. A.A. was from Three Rivers PEI also known as Georgetown PEI ...migrated to Canada in 1820's from Scotland . the family is across the country mostly in Georgetown and Ottawa .

[@ShuffleUpandDeal32]

No pretty sure we are on the correct side of the road.