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A Canadian postal code ( French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [ 1] Like British, Irish and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters.
Trans-Canada Highway. National Highway System. The Trans-Canada Highway ( French: Route Transcanadienne; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) [ 3] is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast.
An eastbound CPR freight train at Stoney Creek Bridge descending from Rogers Pass. The Canadian Pacific Railway ( French: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) ( reporting marks CP, CPAA, MILW, SOO ), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), was a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881.
The Pacific Highway Border Crossing connects the city of Blaine, Washington and the city of Surrey, British Columbia on the Canada–US border. Interstate 5 /Washington State Route 543 on the American side joins British Columbia Highway 15 on the Canadian side. Since the 1970s, commercial vehicles driving directly between Blaine and Surrey have ...
This is the major east–west route in the province. The Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) runs from Hope, then through Osoyoos, Castlegar, Cranbrook, right to Crowsnest Pass on the BC/Alberta border. This is a southern alternate route to the Trans-Canada, and runs very close to the Canada–US border. The Yellowhead / Trans-Canada Highway (Highway ...
Canadian provincial and territorial postal abbreviations are used by Canada Post in a code system consisting of two capital letters, to represent the 13 provinces and territories on addressed mail. These abbreviations allow automated sorting . ISO 3166-2:CA identifiers' second elements are all the same as these; ISO adopted the existing Canada ...
A route (or road) number, designation or abbreviation is an identifying numeric (or alphanumeric) designation assigned by a highway authority to a particular stretch of roadway to distinguish it from other routes and, in many cases, also to indicate its classification (e.g. motorway, primary route, regional road, etc.), general geographical location (in zonal numbering systems) and/or ...
Deerfoot Trail (Alberta Highway 2). A major north-south freeway in eastern Calgary that forms of key segment of Highway 2, the provinces main north south highway and a part of the CANAMEX Corridor. The first section of the roadway opened in 1971 but the whole route was not rendered a freeway until the last signal light was removed in 2005.