Talk:List of British Columbia provincial highways

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[edit] BC Project Assessment

See note at Category talk:British Columbia provincial highways. --KenWalker | Talk 20:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Informal highway numbers"

The following are listed on [1] but not [2]:

  • Atlin Highway
Atlin Road exists as an article
  • Coalmont Road
  • Head Bay Road
  • Hemlock Valley Road
  • Horsefly Road
  • Likely Road
  • Mount Washington Road
  • Port Mellon Highway
  • Queen Charlotte City - Skidegate Road
  • Westside Road
  • Highway 40: Carpenter Lake Road
Called "Road 40" locally, sometimes Highway 40, sections of it have their own names, e.g. Moha Road from the jnctn in Lillooet to Moha; "Carpenter Lake Road" is small-r and not meant in a capital-r sense; before inundation this stretch was the Bridge River Road, w/wo including hte Mission Mountain Road; the Terzaghi-Moha stretch was originally called "the New Road" and generally goes by the name "the Canyon"; maybe a better name here would be Lillooet-Gold Bridge Road; I'm pretty sure the official designation for its continuation is Gold Bridge-Bralorne Road, although I think designation "40" ends at Bralorne, not Gold Bridge; have to check with DoH I guess...Skookum1 (talk) 17:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Highway 51: Telegraph Creek Road
  • Highway 59: Nazko Road
  • Highway 103: Cecil Lake Road

[3] shows Highway 103 as "Road 103", and also includes Road 117 (Upper Halfway) and Road 188 (Doig Road)

I'm very curious where these numbers came from; did the Ministry of Transportation assign them? --NE2 15:59, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

As above, they're "road" not "highway" numbers, which I guess local parlance elevated to informal highway status; so much so that I thought the Lillooet-Gold Bridge route was a highway now, but apparently it's not (yet).Skookum1 (talk) 17:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Some former numbers

1935 and 1938 maps and [4]
  • A Southern Trans-Provincial Highway, Port Alberni to Crowsnest Pass (now Hwy 4, Hwy 19, Hwy 1, Hwy 8, Hwy 5A, Hwy 3)
  • B, Bella Coola to Kicking Horse Pass (now Hwy 20, Hwy 97, Hwy 1)
  • C Northern Trans-Provincial Highway, Prince Rupert to Yellowhead Pass (now Hwy 16)
  • N Island Highway, Victoria to Sayward (now Hwy 1, Hwy 19)
  • R Pacific Highway, Blaine to New Westminster (now Hwy 15)
  • S Cariboo Highway, Spences Bridge to Prince George (now Hwy 1, Hwy 97)
  • T Okanagan Highway, North Thompson Highway?, Oroville to Grindrod (now Hwy 97); 1935 map shows it continuing north from Kamloops on Hwy 5
  • U, Eureka to Vermilion Pass (not Golden on maps) (now Hwy 93)
1947 map and [5]
  • Hwy 1, Victoria to Sayward (now Hwy 1, Hwy 19) and Vancouver to Kicking Horse Pass (still there)
  • Hwy 1A, Parksville to Port Alberni (now Hwy 4)
  • Hwy 1B, Radium to Vermilion Pass (now Hwy 93)
  • Hwy 2, Cache Creek to Prince George (now Hwy 97)
  • Hwy 3, Hope (or Spences Bridge?) to Crowsnest Pass (still there)
  • Hwy 4, Eureka (not Cranbrook on 1947 map) to Golden (now Hwy 93, Hwy 95)
  • Hwy 5, Oroville to Grindrod (now Hwy 97)
  • Hwy 6, Nelway to Vernon (still there)
  • Hwy 7, Vancouver to Harrison Hot Springs (still there)
  • Hwy 16, Prince Rupert to Yellowhead Pass? (still there)
  • Hwy 99, Blaine to New Westminster (now Hwy 15)

--NE2 11:07, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Resource page of sorts

Just happened to find this while looking for something else, it has some useful historical bits in it about various routes, didn't know where else to drop the link so this'll do....Skookum1 (talk) 17:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)