Driving the TransCanada Highway in a motorhome from Vancouver to Ottawa

ISBN: 9783751907804

Total number of pages: 352

Number of pages in colour: 52 / planty of black and white pictures

paper back: 18,99 EUR 

e-book also available

The Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) is the only federal highway in Canada that, with a few junctions, forms a link system through ten provinces of the country. Covering more than seven thousand kilometers, the TCH is Canada’s only continuous transcontinental road and the world’s third long-est road. (The “Trans-Siberian Road” in Russia and Highway #1 in Australia are longer.) The Yellowhead Highway forms the northern branch of the TCH in the western provinces. Although the Trans-Canada Highway was opened in 1962, it was completed in 1970 and is mostly four-lane and crossing-free.

The tramp is a social figure in Britain and in North America. Tramps used to be migrant workers or day laborers and the term in middle English “to tramp” initially meant to walk with heavy footsteps. The tramp was not usually looking for a steady job, taking only odd jobs on his wanderings. The most famous tramp character was played by Charlie Chaplin, who often portrayed the life of a tramp in his films and Rubber-Tramp is the classification of a hitchhiker traveling by car; in contrast to the “Leather-Tramp”, who moves around the world on foot.