Building a section of the Trans-Canada Highway near Revelstoke was a great feat of engineering
In the summer of 1962, after 12 years of political wrangling and great feats of engineering, the final section of the Trans-Canada Highway was nearing completion.
To celebrate the completion of the highway, the feds planned an opening ceremony for Sept. 3, 1962, at the summit of Rogers Pass, in Glacier National Park. Then-prime minister John Diefenbaker would officiate.“William Andrew Cecil Bennett, prime minister of British Columbia, and Phil Gaglardi, a fast-talking preacher who builds highways, are opening a new road up this Monday,” John Kirkwood wrote from Revelstoke in a July 28, 1962, editorial for the Vancouver Sun.
Indeed, senator Sydney Smith, Kamloops-based rancher and businessman, was reported as describing Bennett’s opening of the Rogers Pass highway as “comic opera.” Political grandstanding and jurisdictional bickering may have been factors in the province’s ceremony. Bennett’s mercurial personality very probably played a starring role in the scheduling decision.
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