The Trans-Canada Highway is a transcontinential federal-provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada between its Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean coasts to the west and east respectively. It is, along with the Trans-Siberian Highway and Australia’s Highway 1, one of the world’s longest national highways, with the main route spanning 8,030 km . The system was approved by the Trans-Canada Highway Act of 1949, with construction commencing in 1950.
