Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The "Mile 0" sign for the Trans-Canada Highway Douglas Street is a road in Victoria, British Columbia . It is named after Sir James Douglas , the second Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island .
The main Trans-Canada Highway is uniformly designated as Highway 1 across the four western provinces. The British Columbia section of Highway 1 is 1,045 km (649 mi) long, beginning in Victoria at the intersection of Douglas Street and Dallas Road (where the "Mile 0" plaque stands), and ending on the Alberta border at Kicking Horse Pass.
The Terry Fox Monument in Thunder Bay This is a list of monuments and memorials to Terry Fox. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2019) General Monument or memorial Type Location Date Notes Canada 150 Terry Fox stamp Postage stamp 2017 One of 10 stamps issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Canada. CCGS Terry Fox Icebreaker St. John's, Newfoundland and ...
The brass plaque on the post of the Trans Canada Highway Mile 0 marker in Victoria's Beacon Hill Park reads: Tomorrow Run 91 Plaque at Mile 0, Victoria B.C. The Elks and Royal Purple of Canada Commemorate Al Howie's record setting "Tomorrow Run 91" Began at Mile 0 St. John's, Nfld June 21 and ended September 1, 1991, at Mile 0 Victoria BC
The beginning of Hwy 1 at the Mile Zero monument in Victoria. The western terminus of Highway 1 and the 7,821-kilometre (4,860 mi) main route of the Trans-Canada Highway is at Dallas Road on the southern coast of Victoria, which faces the Strait of Juan de Fuca. [1]
Helmcken House, pioneer doctor's residence, 638 Elliott St. (immediately east of the Royal British Columbia Museum) Mile '0' of the Trans-Canada Highway, Douglas Street at Dallas Road; Orchard House (Michigan Street), currently the tallest building in Greater Victoria [10] Ogden Point: cruise ship terminal and HeliJet terminal
Mile zero for the Alaska Highway is in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Mile zero of the Old Cariboo Road is in Lillooet, British Columbia. This was the starting point of the Cariboo Gold Rush Trail, on which the communities 93 Mile House, 100 Mile House, and 150 Mile House are located.
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237.