History
The Calder Highway was named after William Calder, who was chairman of the Country Roads Board from 1913 to 1928. The CRB was renamed Victorian Road Construction Authority and is today known as VicRoads.
The highway was originally allocated a National Route 79 shield. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s this was altered to a designation for the majority highway portion.
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