Editing Trans-Canada Highway (section)

=== Opening ===
The system was approved by the Trans-Canada Highway Act of 1949,<ref>{{cite web |title = Trans-Canada Highway Act |url = http://lois.justice.gc.ca/en/publaw/217522_25895.html |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110725133830/http://lois.justice.gc.ca/en/publaw/217522_25895.html |archive-date = July 25, 2011 |access-date = December 19, 2006 |publisher = Department of Justice Canada |id = R.S.C. 1970, c. T-12 }}</ref> with construction commencing in 1950.<ref>{{cite web |title = The Trans-Canada Highway |url = http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/backgrounders/b04-R007e.htm |publisher = [[Transport Canada]] |access-date = December 19, 2006 |archive-date = May 6, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070506102930/http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/backgrounders/b04-R007e.htm |url-status = live }}</ref> The highway officially opened in 1962, with the completion of the [[Rogers Pass (British Columbia)|Rogers Pass]] section of highway between [[Golden, British Columbia|Golden]] and [[Revelstoke, British Columbia|Revelstoke]]. This section of highway bypassed the original Big Bend Highway, the last remaining section of gravel highway on the route. Upon its original completion, the Trans-Canada Highway was the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |last = MacLeod |first = Donaldson |date = 2014 |title = The Trans-Canada Highway: A Major Link in Canada's Transportation System |url = http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2014/s-32/macleod.pdf |access-date = March 10, 2016 |publisher = Transportation Association of Canada |archive-date = March 11, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160311012648/http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2014/s-32/macleod.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref> Construction on other legs continued until 1971, when the last gap on Highway&nbsp;16 was completed in the Upper [[Fraser Valley]] east of [[Prince George, British Columbia|Prince George]], at which point the highway network was considered complete.