In the early part of `07, when things were slow in the film industry, I drove truck for a company called `D. White' which was based in Burnaby, B C. Canada.

I drove a new International, conventional pulling 53 Ft dry vans hauling bread from a bakery in Vancouver to a bakery in Calgary, and vice versa, for Canada Bread.

These are some of the pictures I took, through the windshield, along Highway 1.

Highway 1 or the Trans Canada Highway (TCH) from Calgary to B. C. is often referred to, by locals, as the Banff highway.

Albertans are lucky, most of the TCH. in Alta. has been widened to 4 lanes.

At least it has been from Calgary to Lake Louise.

British Columbians are not so lucky.

Very little of their TCH. has been widened to 4 lanes.

Though us truckers, who get paid by the mile, really would love to see the TCH become 4 lanes, for its entire length, so we wouldn't be stuck behind scenery gawking tourists, in the summer, and people who don't know how to drive on ice, in the winter, it really isn't cost effective.

Highways, like everything else that is built by governments, must be paid for out of the general revenue.

General revenue is generated by taxes. Of which we all pay too much already.

So if you want to widen a highway, at a cost of $10,000,000 per Kilometer, and the TCH is the longest highway in the world, 7,821 Km. from Victoria, B. C. to St. John's, Newfoundland, and the population of Canada is only 30 million people, and don't forget the ferry system, across the Georgia Strait, and the bridges across all the rivers, and the other important things that the government must buy, like paying off some ex prime minister because he sued the government for slandering his good name, like he ever had a good name to begin with.

Well, anyway, you can see why we poor taxpayers just can't afford to have our one major highway, widened into a freeway.

	KANANASKIS COUNTRY

Thanks to a momentary break in the incessant rain I was able to get this next picture.

It was a long weekend and the tourist are heading home early.

Victoria Day weekend, a Canadian holiday, in remembrance of Queen Victoria, was cold and wet.

Monday `7/5 Calgary reached a high of 5 degrees. It snowed in the morning.

NOON, THE HOLIDAYERS ARE HEADING HOME EARLY
	APPROACHING EXSHAW
LAC DES ARCS EXSHAW ON THE FAR SHORE
	THREE SISTERS MOUNTAIN I BELIEVE
	DEADMAN'S FLATS
CANMORE
THE ONCE SLEEPY LITTLE CANMORE HAS BECOME A BEDROOM FOR CALGARY	LOTS OF BUILDINGS NESTLED AMONGST THE TREES
ENTRANCE TO BANFF NATIONAL PARK
APPROACHING THE TOWN OF BANFF
	YOU'VE HEARD OF A PEDESTRIAN OVERPASS THIS IS A WILD ANIMAL OVERPASS
A REST AREA, 20 KM. WEST OF BANFF	I BELIEVE THIS WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED CASTLE MOUNTAIN, LATER CHANGED TO, MT. EISENHOWER

BOW RIVER (Continued on next picture)

BOW RIVER

JUNCTION TO LAKE LOUISE

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