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Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was at British Columbia’s famous Rogers Pass on this date in 1962 to officially dedicate and declare open that Trans-Canada Highway which linked, like the CPR decades before, Canadians from sea-to-shining-sea. In his memoirs, written in political retirement, Dief looked back with pride on the role his government played in bringing the highway to completion.
“We extended the legislation covering its construction to provide an additional $50 million so that might be linked together by a national highway of 4,887 miles,” he wrote. “We brought Quebec into this vital project for the first time when signed an agreement with the province in October 1960.
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