page_title: Saskatchewan Highway 1
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Saskatchewan Highway 1 / History
caption_attribution_description: Fort Qu'Appelle Sk Hwy 56 road sign on the Trans Canada Sk Hwy 1 Saskatchewan
context_page_description: Highway 1 is the Saskatchewan section of the Trans-Canada Highway mainland route. The total distance of the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan is 654 kilometres. The highway traverses Saskatchewan from the western border with Alberta, from Highway 1, to the Manitoba border where it continues as PTH 1. The Trans–Canada Highway Act was passed on December 10, 1949. The Saskatchewan segment was completed August 21, 1957, and completely twinned on November 6, 2008. The speed limit along the majority of the route is 110 kilometres per hour with urban area thoroughfares slowing to a speed of 90–100 kilometres per hour. Portions of the highway—the section through Swift Current, an 8-kilometre section east of Moose Jaw, and a 44-kilometre section between the West Regina Bypass and Balgonie—are controlled-access. Highway 1 serves as a major east-west transport route for commercial traffic. It is the main link between southern Saskatchewan's largest cities, and also serves as the province's main link to the neighbouring provinces of Alberta and Manitoba.
  The four-lane divided highway passes through three major urban centres of Saskatchewan, Regina, Moose Jaw and Swift Current.
context_section_description: A First Nation trail used by fur traders, and Red River carts pulling settlers effects was the first path between Moosomin and Fort Ellice, Manitoba. The transcontinental CPR paralleled this trail when coming through in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  Provincial Highway 4, the precursor of the Trans–Canada Saskatchewan Highway 1 followed the surveyed grade of the transcontinental CPR between the Alberta and Manitoba border. Travel along Provincial Highway 4 before the 1940s would have been travelling on the square following the township road allowances, barbed wire fencing and rail lines.  As the surveyed township roads were the easiest to travel, the  first highway was designed on 90 degree right angle corners as the distance traversed the prairie along range roads and township roads.  Two horse then eight horse scrapers maintained these early dirt roads.
  One of the problems that came about was when the Manitoba survey met the Saskatchewan survey. The Manitoba survey allowed for 100 feet (30 m) road allowances placed east and west every 1 mile (1.6 km).  This system was followed west of Manitoba until just north of Indian Head.  Whereas, the Saskatchewan survey conducted in 1887, allowed for 66 feet (20 m)  road allowances and placed roads east and west every 2 miles (3.2 km).  The two surveys needed a 2 miles (3.2 km) correction which took years to smooth out.
  Agriculture is Saskatchewan's main industry and taking grain to elevators was first accomplished by horse and cart, to be replaced around World War I by truck travel. Long haul trucking flourished between 1950 and 1970, and the trans–Canada was completed across Canada by 1970.  Since the 1970s, 17 times the number of grain trucks and 95 per cent of goods transported now are hauled by truck across the Saskatchewan.
caption: Sk Hwy 1 near Indian Head/Fort Qu'Appelle at Sk Hwy 56
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