Horseshoe Bay to New Westminster: 1966

BC Road Trip Time Machine - Highway 1, Horseshoe Bay to New Westminster: 1966

Wow. Fantastic video of Vancouver before things got crazy. Take a peek here.

The Ministry of Transportation just released a wonderful archival video from 1966! In it they drive from Horseshoe Bay, through downtown Vancouver, up Main street then onto Kingsway to Burnaby. It was part of their ‘photologs’ where they would mount a camera on a car and produce a film on 16mm.

In a blog post the Ministry states that “these roads were classified as provincial Highways 1 and 99 until the early 1970s. In fact, Kingsway was also a component of the Trans-Canada Highway until construction was completed on the current alignment of Highway #1 across the Fraser River on the Port Mann Bridge in 1964”.