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Bow Valley is a valley along the upper Bow River in Alberta, Canada. The name "Bow" refers to the reeds that grew along its banks and which were used by the local First Nations people to make bows; the Blackfoot language name for the river is Makhabn , meaning "river where bow weeds grow".
The second of the 1A routes, known as the Bow Valley Trail, begins in Canmore, off of the Trans-Canada Highway at exit 91. It formerly began at the Trans-Canada Highway at exit 86 and passed through Canmore; however, ownership of the section was transferred to the Town of Canmore. The roadway still carries the name "Bow Valley Trail". [1]
It spans approximately 534 km (332 mi) from Alberta's border with British Columbia in the west to its border with Saskatchewan in the east. [3] Highway 1 is designated as a core route in Canada's National Highway System [ 4 ] and is a core part of the developing Alberta Freeway Network .
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 41A is the designation of an alternate route off Highway 41 serving the City of Medicine Hat. It branches off Highway 41 approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) north of the Trans-Canada Highway and runs approximately 12 km (7.5 mi).
The Alberta Provincial Highway Network consists of all the roads, bridges and interchanges in Alberta that are maintained by the Ministry of Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC). This network includes over 64,000 lane kilometres of roads (equivalent to 31,400 kilometres), and over 4,800 bridges and interchanges. [ 2 ]
Highway 62 is a 52-kilometre (32 mi) north–south highway in southern Alberta, Canada that connects Highway 5 in Magrath to the Canada–United States border south of Del Bonita. It continues as Montana Secondary Highway 213 in the United States. [1] [2] [3]
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The renumbering had two advantages: it established Highway 43 as a continuous highway number from Highway 16 through the Peace Country to the British Columbia border, simplifying travel, and it created fewer highway number changes along the CANAMEX Corridor, the Alberta portion of which stretches from Coutts at the United States border to the ...