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Newfoundland
“Lloyd Adams is “on the light side of 77,” and when I met him, he and his wife, Audrey, were celebrating their 48th wedding anniversary.”
“You get to Rose Blanche by turning right instead of left when you leave the ferry at Port aux Basques”
Dipping the wheels into the Atlantic to start the journey at Petty Harbour, NL
Septic tanks near Port-aux-Basques
Yes, they really are septic tanks.
And no, I didn’t check if they were empty.
“I walked down an overgrown path and heard voices.
It was Austin Bennett chatting with his lobsterman friend Wayne Spencer.”
“I began my drive with the Camaro’s wheels in the Atlantic Ocean, dipping into the water on a wharf at Petty Harbour, just south of Cape Spear, the most easterly point in Canada.”
Lloyd Adams surveying the Trans-Canada in the 1950s
““Once you’re into the rhythm and your legs have adjusted, it’s a great way to travel.” His friend Will agreed: “I’ve never been east of Quebec City. I didn’t expect to see such differences between the provinces.”
“Here in former-premier Joey Smallwood’s hometown, the man seems honoured with the same level of reverence that North Koreans offer their late Dear Leaders.”
Mark Richardson in the Chevy Camaro outside the Mile One Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
“Michelle Higgins also doesn’t recall seeing a moose recently, though she surely did early last month when she was driving in the evening from her home at Norris Arm to work at Gander. “
Prince Edward Island
Miller Choi beside his go-kart track
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchawan
Alberta
“Author Edward McCourt described his 1963 drive along it, in his book The Road Across Canada, as “an endless succession of iron-surfaced washboard, gaping pot-holes, and naked rock — a shoulder-twisting, neck-snapping, dust-shrouded horror.” “
British Columbia
The Camaro dips its wheels into the Pacific in Victoria
