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HIGHWAY 3 - (THE; CROWSNEST, HOPE - PRINCETON, SALMO - CRESTON, HWY.)

(Map of Hwy. 3 in B. C.)
Author's note: Original map by RAND McNALLY, butchered by Lee. A Wood

Because it goes through the Crowsnest Pass
it is often referred to as the Crowsnest Highway

`07/05 Additional photos taken in `10/1 and added to this page in `12/1

The TCH, Trans Canada Highway, or Highway 1, runs from Victoria, B. C. to St. John's Newfoundland.

Travelling East from Vancouver, the TCH swings North at the town of Hope.

The roadway also continues East and becomes B. C. Provincial Highway 3.

A few miles further East the roadway splits again. 3 continues East to Manning Park, while 5 Swings North East to the Nicola valley.

During the winter of `09 - `10, when things were slow in the film industry, I bought a trailer and put it on with a company called `CS' which was based in New Westminster, B C. Canada.

I had an `07 Volvo 780, conventional pulling a `10 ` Utility 3000R' 53 Ft. tandem reefer, hauling various commodities for various companies.

(`07 Volvo 780 & `10 53' `Utility' Reefer.)

Mostly I pulled plywood from Richmond, B. C, to various towns in Calif.

In Calif. and Arizona I would load produce for Loblaw in Calgary, Alta.

The return home was usually yogurt from Lethbridge, Alta. to the new Loblaw's warehouse in Langley, B. C.

These are some of the pictures I took, through the windshield, along Highway 3.

This was an interesting trip for me as I hadn't been through the Crowsnest pass for several years.

Highway 3 is an older, paved, road from Eastern Alberta to Hope, B. C. with few improvements, other than repaving.

HIGHWAY 3 - FROM ALBERTA TO HOPE

CHRISTINA LAKE
CRANBROOK
CRESTON
CURZON JUNCTION
GRANDE FORKS
GROUSE MT.
HOPE
MOYIE
NELSON
OSOYOOS
SALMO
SPARWOOD
TRAIL
YAHK

(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Trees, roadside sign.)
GOODBYE ALBERTA - HELLO B. C.
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Trees, roadside sign.)
SPARWOOD 16
ELKFORD 51
FERNIE 52
CRANBROOK 153
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Forest, mountains, sheep on road.)
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - close up of sheep.)
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP
Now who would expect to see those in the heart of the Rocky Mountains
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Trees, roadside sign.)
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Highway, old hotel, mountains in the background.)
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Trees, roadside sign.)
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Trees, roadside sign.)
FERNIE
SPARWOOD
ELKFORD
JUNCTION 600 m

SPARWOOD

(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Stores, snow falling on mountain in the background.)
SPARWOOD B. C.
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Trees, large ore truck, stores, snow falling on mountain in the background.)
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - large ore truck, stores, snow falling on mountain in the background.)
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - stores, snow falling on mountain in the background.)
THE MIDDLETOWN CAFE
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - Large sign, Sparwood, over gate posts, stores, snow falling on mountain in the background.)
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - modern hotel, mountains in the background.)
CAUSEWAY BAY HOTEL
(Sparwood, B. C. Canada - highway dips down into valley, snow falling on mountain in the background.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - clouds breaking up, dusk, stores along side of highway.)
ENTERING CRANBROOK

CRANBROOK

(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
HUSKY (on the left) THE CLOSEST THING TO A TRUCK STOP
IN SOUTH EAST B. C.
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
HWY. 3 FORMS THE MAIN STREET OF CRANBROOK
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
TAMARACK SHOPPING CENTRE
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
6 th. St. N.
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - Stores, side st., mountain in the background.)
1 st. St. N.
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - Large sign, Cranbrook, over rock gate posts, stores.)
KING St.
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - an old railway power unit.)
ELKO - TRAIN STATION
FORMER SITE OF THE RAIL MUSEUM
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - An old diesel electric train engine.)
LOCO 4890 CPR ALCO (A&B)
SCHEDULED FOR A PAINT JOB, SUMMER OF 2012
BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF CRANBROOK
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - Stores, side st.)
7 th. Ave
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - an old railway building beside hwy.)
PRESENT HOME OF THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF RAIL TRAVEL
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - an old railway building And train cars, beside hwy.)
THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF RAIL TRAVEL
TRAIN CARS
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - Stores, side st.)
5 th. Ave.
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - houses along side st.)
4 th. Ave.
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - houses along side st.)
3 Rd. Ave.
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stores along side highway.)
WINE WORKS - PRETTY POOCH
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - Stores and railway power unit beside hwy.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - A diesel electric train engine.)
CP (Canadian Pacific) LOCOS 5973 - 9018 - 6005
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - stand with miniature train beside highway.)
ELIZABETH LAKE LODGE
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - Motel, fresh treated logs.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - frozen lake beside hwy.)
ELIZABETH LAKE
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - frozen swamp.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - sign beside road.)
KINGSGATE 77
CRESTON 108
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - house in trees below hwy.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - houses in trees below hwy.)
(Cranbrook, B. C. Canada - highway disappears over hill towards snow topped mountain.)
LEAVING CRANBROOK

MOYIE

(Moyie, B. C. Canada - Mobile home and construction equipment in small valley.)
APPROACHING MOYIE
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - houses on side st.)
TAVISTOCK RD.
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - Highway curves between trees to downtown.)
APPROACHING DOWNTOWN
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - Large building beside hwy.)
MOYIE PUB
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - broken fence, tall fire house tower.)
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - close up of entrance to old forestall.)
1907
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - houses on side st.)
QUEEN ST.
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - houses on side st.)
TAVISTOCK RD.
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - store and gas station.)
BC LIQUOR STORE - CANADA POST OFFICE - MOYIE GENERAL STORE
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - highway disappears around pile of old tailings.)
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - looking over open gondola at frozen lake.)
MOYIE LAKE
(Moyie, B. C. Canada - pile of tailings surrounded by ice on lake.)
OLD TAILING PILE

YAHK

(Yahk, B. C. Canada - Cloudy, logged off hillside, sign beside rd.)
GOING TO THE USA?
DUTY FREE
10 KM AHEAD
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - Cloudy, logged off hillside, sign beside rd.)
YAHK MEADOW CR. RD.
AHEAD
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - Highway curves between trees to bridge.)
YAHK BRIDGE
MOYIE RIVER
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - close up of bridge.)
APPROACHING YAHK
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - smaller bridge, railway.)
YAHK SLOUGH BRIDGE
MOYIE RIVER CHANNEL
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - railway on right store on left.)
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - two old hotels across tracks.)
SALOON - HOTEL - PUB
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - close up of store and gas pumps.)
YAHK GENERAL STORE
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - close up of second hotel.)
RIVER AVE.
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - house beside rd.)
RAILWAY AVE.
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - building beside rd. left half.)
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - building beside rd. right half.)
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - house beside rd.)
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - house beside rd.)
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - house beside rd.)
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - house beside rd.)
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - house beside rd.)
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - house beside rd.)
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - car stropped behind school bus, children on rd.)
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - car stropped behind school bus, children on rd.)
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - children in parking lot of post office, sign at entrance.)
CANADA POST OFFICE
ICE CAPPUCCINO
ESPRESSO
(Yahk, B. C. Canada - Motel beside rd.)
YAHK MOTEL & CAMPGROUND

GROUSE MOUNTAIN

(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - store beside rd.)
A SUBURB OF YAHK
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - close up of service station beside rd.)
GROUSE MOUNTAIN GENERAL STORE
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - on frontage rd.)
YAHK SOAP COMPANY
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - house on frontage rd.)
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - Store on frontage rd.)
ICE CREAM
LATTE
GREAT FOOD
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - house on frontage rd.)
JOHNSTON RD.
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - house on frontage rd.)
PETER PINE DAZE
(Yahk - Grouse Mt., B. C. Canada - house and old caboose on frontage rd.)

(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - Hwy., between trees, curves onto bridge.)
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - big truck enters bridge.)

CURZON JUNCTION

(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - Large trucks to left, buildings to right, treed mountains in distance.)
APPROACHING CURZON JUNCTION
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - Large trucks to left, buildings to right, treed mountains in distance.)
WEIGH SCALE TO LEFT
CURZON JUNCTION TO RIGHT
JUNCTION OF HWY. 95 STRAIGHT AHEAD
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - frontage road. and weigh scale.)
AHEAD HWY. 95 LEADS TO KINGSGATE, B. C.
AND THE U. S. BORDER CROSSING TO EASTPORT, IDAHO
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - Hwy. curves to yellow bridge.)
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - close up of bridge, railway overpass in distance.)
CURZON JUNCTION BRIDGE
MOYIE RIVER
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - View to side through bridge beams)
MOYIE RIVER
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - railway overpass, cloudy skies, messy farm, sign.)
CRESTON 40
SALMO 124
FERRY KOOTENAY LAKE 136
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - Farm, logs, trucks, camper, barns, skiff of snow.)
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - approaching railway overpass.)
HWY. 3 SWINGS NORTH TO CRESTON
(Curzon Junction, B. C. Canada - Entering railway overpass.)

CRESTON

(Creston, B. C. Canada - Small farms, mountains in the background.)
EAST OUT OF CRESTON
(Creston, B. C. Canada - Stores on both sides of street, Mountains in the background.)
DOWNTOWN CRESTON

It was early in the morning as I climbed the Salmo Creston Summit.

The Salmo Creston is the highest of several, high, passes along the Crowsnest Highway which stretches from Hope to the Province of Alberta.

The sun was still below the mountains to the East when I headed home through Creston.

(Creston, B. C. Canada - Buildings along highway, mountains in the background.)
NORTH OUT OF CRESTON
(Creston, B. C. Canada - Highway through an underpass, mountains in the background.)
WEST ON THE CROWSNEST PASS

(Creston, B. C. Canada - Highway through fields, Mountains in the background.)
THE CRESTON VALLEY, FAMOUS FOR FRUIT
(Creston, B. C. Canada - Past a field with cows, Mountains in the background.)

(Creston, B. C. Canada - Over a bridge, mountains in the background.)
(Creston, B. C. Canada - Highway through fields, mountains in the background.)

SALMO CRESTON PASS

Hwy. 3 at the Eastern end of the Salmo Creston, sometimes called the Kootenay Pass.

(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, mountains in the background.)
(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, uphill, mountains in the background.)

(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, uphill, sides of the road covered with snow, mountains in the background.)
NORMALLY THERE WOULD BE THIS MUCH SNOW ON THE ROAD
AND TEN TIMES AS MUCH ON THE SIDES
Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - (Highway among mountain tops, mountains in the background.)
SALMO CRESTON SUMMIT
HERE, IF IT ISN'T SNOWING, I WILL STOP FOR SLEEP

Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - (Through trees, downhill, sides of the road little snow, mountains in the background.)
STARTING DOWN THE OTHER SIDE.
AT THIS POINT, ON THE WAY OUT,
3 CARIBOU CROSSED THE ROAD IN FRONT OF ME
(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, downhill, sides of the road little snow, mountains in the background.)

(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, downhill, sides of the road no snow, mountains in the background.)
(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, downhill, sides of the road no snow, mountains in the background.)

Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, downhill, side of the road a run off lane, mountains in the background.)
ONE OF THE FEW PRACTICAL RUN-AWAY-LANES IN B. C.,
TRUCKS DON'T HAVE TO TURN TO GET INTO IT.
SOME ARE SO RIDICULOUS THAT ONE WOULD HAVE TO CROSS
THE OPPOSING LANE OF TRAFFIC TO USE THEM
(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, downhill, mountains in the background.)

(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, downhill, beside a rushing stream, mountains in the background.)
Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - (Through trees, downhill, beside a rushing stream, mountains in the background.)

(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, downhill, mountains in the background.)
(Salmo, Creston, B. C. Canada - Through trees, downhill, beside a rushing stream, mountains in the background.)
FINALLY, TO THE VALLEY FLOOR

(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Through trees & fields, mountains in the background. Highway sign.)
NORTH, FROM THE JUNCTION, OF HWY. 6
(TO METALINE FALLS IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON)
TO SALMO 13, NELSON 55 Km.
(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Through trees, mountains in the background.)

(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Beside a stream, mountains in the background.)
(Salmo, B. C. Canada - House and field across the stream, mountains in the background.)

SALMO

(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Highway past field and buildings, mountains in the background.)
(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, past a welcome centre, mountains in the background.)

Salmo is one point of an equilateral triangle. The other two points are Castlegar & Nelson.

(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Over a bridge, past houses, mountains in the background.)
DOWNTOWN SALMO
(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Houses beside highway, mountains in the background.)
ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE JUNCTION,
A SUBURB OF SALMO

Salmo is the start of another high climb, West to Castlegar.

(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees past a highway sign.)
FRUITVALE - 24 Km.
CASTLEGAR, & TRAIL - 40 Km
(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Highway starts up, past a farm, mountains in the background.)

(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, up hill, mountains in the background.)
(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, up hill, mountains in the background.)
NEARING THE TOP

(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, down hill, mountains in the background.)
DOWN THE OTHER SIDE.
I KNOW, LOOKS LIKE UP
(Salmo, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, down hill, mountains in the background, run-away-lane to the right.)
ANOTHER POORLY DESIGNED RUN-AWAY-LANE

(Christina Lake, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, down hill, mountains in the background, run-away-lane to the right.)
IF YOU WERE GOING TOO FAST,
EVEN IN A CAR,
COULD YOU MAKE THAT TURN TO THE RIGHT?
(Christina Lake, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, down hill, mountains in the background.)

TRAIL

(Trail, B. C. Canada - Highway down a hill, across a narrow valley, houses on the hillside.)
ENTERING THE TOWN OF TRAIL
(Trail, B. C. Canada - Highway down a hill, across a narrow valley, houses on the hillside.)

(Trail, B. C. Canada - Over a bridge, mountains in the background. )
DOWNTOWN TRAIL
(Trail, B. C. Canada - Over a bridge, mountains in the background.)
COLUMBIA RIVER

(Trail, B. C. Canada - Houses along one side of highway, highway alongside river, mountains in the background.)
TO THE SOUTH OF TRAIL TO GET A LOAD OF RECYCLE
(Trail, B. C. Canada - Houses along one side of highway, highway alongside river, mountains in the background.)
HEADING NORTH INTO TRAIL

(Trail, B. C. Canada - Houses, smelter ahead, Mountains in the background.)
(Trail, B. C. Canada - Bridge, mountains in the background.)

(Trail, B. C. Canada - Bridge, smelter on bank, high, above river.)
THE COMINCO SMELTER. CLEANER NOW, BUT AT ONE TIME
IT KILLED ALL THE VEGETATION ON THE SURROUNDING HILLS
(Trail, B. C. Canada - Highway looking down on houses along the river, mountains in the background.)
LEAVING TRAIL, NORTH TO CASTLEGAR

NELSON

Some trips took me North from Castlegar to Nelson.

(Nelson, B. C. Canada - Houses, bridge over water, Mountains in the background.)
TOWN OF NELSON
(Nelson, B. C. Canada - Ducks on water.)
THE SUMMER SUN IS JUST STARTING TO LIGHTEN THE SKY
(Nelson, B. C. Canada - Water, mountains in background.)
THE WESTERN ARM OF KOOTENAY LAKE
Nelson, B. C. Canada - (Trucks in front of large grocery, Save-on-foods, store.)
WAITING TO UNLOAD

From `00 to `05, when things were slow in the film industry, usually in the fall, winter and spring, I would drive truck for a company called `Van Kam Freightways' which was based in Burnaby but is now situated in Delta, B C. Canada.

I drove, Freightliner, or International, conventionals pulling 53 Ft reefers to towns in central and Eastern B. C. Some of the products I hauled were general freight but mostly I hauled; meat, groceries, etc. for Overwaitea Foods.

These are some of the pictures I took, through the windshield, along Highway 3.

Sometimes, running East, I would only go as far as Princeton, where I would switch trailers with another tractor. Sometimes I would only go as far as Castlegar, or Trail.

Usually I would leave Vancouver at 3:30 PM, load in Abbotsford, and go as far as Kimberly, with stops in; Grand Forks, Nelson, and Creston. After my last stop, at 8:00 AM, I would drive South of town a few miles and stop to sleep for awhile, then go to the truck stop in Cranbrook, where I would get something to eat, and sleep for the rest of my 8 hour break. My return trip would be empty to Castlegar where I would either pick up a loaded trailer or run down to Trail and get a load.

(Coquihalla Hwy. - Tractor and two trailers.)
This is a set of joints I brought back from Castlegar

(Grand Forks to Castlegar - Snow along highway, wet pavement.)
CLIMBING TO THE SUMMIT
(Grand Forks to Castlegar - Snow along highway, wet pavement.)
WEST OF CASTLEGAR

(Christina Lake, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, up hill, snow on the shoulders.)
WEST OF CASTLEGAR
(Christina Lake, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, down hill, mountains in the background,.)
WEST BOUND

(Christina Lake, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, down hill, mountains in the background.)
(Christina Lake, B. C. Canada - Mountains in the background, some snow.)

CHRISTINA LAKE

An hours drive West of Castlegar is a beautiful lake and lovely, little, town, both with the same name.

(Christina Lake, B. C. Canada - Lake to right of highway.)
CHRISTINA LAKE
(Christina Lake, B. C. Canada - Highway to right of cliffs.)

GRAND FORKS

(Grand Forks, B. C. Canada - Highway through trees, and buildings, hills in the background.)
ENTERING GRAND FORKS
(Grand Forks, B. C. Canada - Highway through stores, buildings.)
DOWNTOWN GRAND FORKS

OSOYOOS

(Osoyoos, B. C. Canada - Sprinkling of lights in a field of black.)
LOOKING DOWN FROM A HIGH HILL,
THE AREAS OF BLACK ARE WATER,
THE TOWN OF OSOYOOS IS A SWIMMERS PARADISE
(Osoyoos, B. C. Canada - Highway through barren hills, down hill, mountains in the background.)
WEST BOUND FROM OSOYOOS

(Keremeos, B. C. Canada - Highway through barren hills, down hill, mountains in the background.)
WEST BOUND TO KEREMEOS
(Manning Park, B. C. Canada - trees, snow, wooden sign.)
MANNING PARK
(Manning Park, B. C. Canada - close up of sign.)
(Hope, B. C. Canada - Bare rocky mountainside.)
THE HOPE SLIDE

HOPE

(Hope, B. C. Canada - 4 lane highway, with off ramp.)
HIGHWAY ONE LEAVES, TO THE RIGHT
THE FREEWAY BECOMES HIGHWAY 3
(Hope, B. C. Canada - 5 lane highway, climbing hill)
3, EAST OF HOPE
(Hope, B. C. Canada - Highways 3 & 5.)
THE START OF HIGHWAY 5
(Hope, B. C. Canada - 5 lane highway, with off ramp.)
HIGHWAY 3 LEAVES, TO THE RIGHT
THE FREEWAY BECOMES 5, THE COQUIHALLA

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