Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08
BY JAMES MONTAGNES
special Writer for The star

TORONTO. - Motorists this
summer win be able to travel
over a large part Of Canada's
first all-paved transcontinental
highway, a road which has
opened up numerous new scenic
. forest and lakeland areas.
When completed in 1861 the
5.0OO-mile Trans Canada high
way will for the first time con-
meet all sections OF Canada
with a paved road and elimi-
nate the necessity Of travelling
through part Of the United
States to get from Eastern to
Western Canada.
Unlike the United States,
Canada has no federally-con-
trolled highways. All roads are
( considered under provincial
jurisdiction. To build the Trans
Canada highway the Canadian
government has signed agree
/ ments with nine Of the 10
provinces to share in the cost
Of building the all-paved high
way.
Only hold-out was Quebec
province, where the provincial
government is building paved
! highways to connect with the
Trans-Canada highway in the
east at the New Brunswick
provincial border and in the
west at the Ontario provincial
border.
Motorists from the Washing
ton, d. c., area can reach the
Trans-Canada Highway via the
New England States entering
Canada in the province OF New
Brunswick or by car ferry from
Bar Harbor, Me-, to var
mouth, Nova Scotia. From
these border points good roads
lead to the Trans-Canada
Highway, which at present has
its eastern terminus at Sydney
Nova Scotia.
From here the highway leads
through scenic Cape Breton
Highlands National Park with
the Atlantic Ocean or the Gull
of st. Lawrence in view from
the scenic road skirting the
par The Trans-Canada high
way leads by way of Amherst,
N. S., to the province OF New
Brunswick.
The main road does not
touch the big seaport and naval
base of Halifax, but good paved
roads lead to this major city.
The Trans-Canada highway
crosses New Brunswick from
south to north, skirting the sea-
port city'of Saint John on the
Bay of Fundy, but touching at
Fredericton, provincial capl-
tai and seat of its legislature.
The road parallels the interna-
tional border with the State OF
Maine part of the way till Ed
munston, where it crosses into
the province of Quebec.
Vacationers interested in this
eastern section of the highway
will find that a ferry service
from several New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia ports will take
them to Canada's smallest
province, Prince Edward Island,
where the Trans Canada high
way has a section.
The ferry service on an over
night run will also take them
to Port aux BaSques at the
southwestern tip Of Newfound-
land, from where the highway
runs through virgin forest
areas almost to st. Johns, CAPT.
tai city, near where there is a
big United States air base.
Through the province of QUE
bee paved roads go along the
south shore of the st. Law
renee River to Lewis, where
bridge and ferry service across
the mile-wide river takes the
motorist to historic Quebec City
on the north shore. Going west
ward from Quebec City paved
roads lead to Montreal, Can
ada's biggest city, and then to
the Ontario border, near Can
adas capital city of Ottawa.
Here tourists will likely see
Canada's Parliament in session
during part of the summer
months.
From Ottawa the highway
cuts to the province of On
tario through forested lakeland,
small resort towns and villages,
skirting big cities like Toronto,
to the Muskoka Lakes district.
then to Parry Sound on the