Provincial highway in British Columbia, Canada; part of Trans-Canada Highway
Highway 1
Trans-Canada Highway
A map of southern British Columbia with Hwy 1 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
Length
1,047 km (651 mi)
Existed
1941–present
Vancouver Island section
Length
116 km (72 mi)
South end
Dallas Road in Victoria
Major intersections
Hwy 17 in Victoria
Hwy 19 in Nanaimo
North end
Departure Bay Ferry Terminal
Mainland section
Length
877 km (545 mi)
West end
Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal
Major intersections
Hwy 99 in West Vancouver
Hwy 7 / Hwy 7B in Coquitlam
Hwy 15 / Hwy 17 in Surrey
Hwy 1A in Abbotsford
Hwy 11 in Abbotsford
Hwy 3 / Hwy 5 (YH) in Hope
Hwy 97 in Cache Creek
Hwy 5 (YH) in Kamloops
Hwy 97 at Monte Creek
Hwy 97B in Salmon Arm
Hwy 95 in Golden
East end
Alberta border at Kicking Horse Pass continues as Hwy 1 (TCH)
Location
Country
Canada
Province
British Columbia
Highway system
British Columbia provincial highways
← Hwy 395
→ Hwy 1A
Highway 1 is a provincial highway in British Columbia, Canada, that carries the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH). The highway is 1,047 kilometres (651 mi) long and connects Vancouver Island, the Greater Vancouver region in the Lower Mainland, and the Interior. It is the westernmost portion of the main TCH to be numbered "Highway 1", which continues through Western Canada and extends to the Manitoba–Ontario boundary. The section of Highway 1 in the Lower Mainland is the second-busiest freeway in Canada, after Ontario Highway 401 in Toronto.
The highway's western terminus is in the provincial capital of Victoria, where it serves as a city street and freeway in the suburbs. Highway 1 travels north to Nanaimo and reaches the Lower Mainland at Horseshoe Bay via a BC Ferries route across the Strait of Georgia. The highway bypasses Vancouver on a freeway that travels through Burnaby, northern Surrey, and Abbotsford while following the Fraser River inland. The freeway ends in Hope, where Highway 1 turns north and later east to follow the Fraser and Thompson rivers into the Interior and through Kamloops. The highway continues east across the Columbia Mountains, serving three national parks: Mount Revelstoke, Glacier, and Yoho. Highway 1 enters Alberta at Kicking Horse Pass near Banff National Park.
Highway 1 was preceded by several overland trails and wagon roads established in the mid-to-late 19th century, including the Old Yale Road in the Fraser Valley, the Cariboo Road, and the Big Bend Highway. The provincial government designated Highway 1 in 1941 on a portion of the Island Highway between Victoria and Kelsey Bay as well as the Vancouver–Banff highway. It was incorporated into the national Trans-Canada Highway program, which was established in 1949 and completed in 1962. Other sections of the highway were realigned in later years, including a new freeway in the Lower Mainland that opened in the 1960s and 1970s and was numbered Highway 401.
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