Author: Various. Published by Heritage House, Surrey, BC., 1986, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Excellent Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with light cover handling. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 126 pages.
FRASER & THOMPSON RIVER CANYONS: Trans-Canada Highway Vancouver to Kamloops, is a historical travel and geography guidebook that explores the rich history, engineering feats, and dramatic landscapes of the Highway 1 corridor through southwestern British Columbia.
The book covers the iconic journey from the coastal city of Vancouver, through the dense, rain-carved gorges of the Fraser Canyon, and into the arid, sagebrush-covered plateau of the Thompson River Canyon ending in Kamloops. The year of its publication—1986—marked a major turning point for this route. In May 1986, British Columbia opened the Coquihalla Highway (Highway 5), which provided a much faster, four-lane inland route between Hope and Kamloops. This book serves as a timely tribute to the original, more scenic Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) route just as it was being bypassed by major commercial traffic on the new route.
