Route Details
Vancouver Island A 16 km-long segment of highway in the area of Victoria was designated as 1A. It started in Victoria at the intersection of Hillside Avenue and Government Street, following Gorge Road west for 5 km until it reached an intersection at Admirals Road, just across the Craigflower Bridge into Esquimalt. Highway 1A then proceeded west along the Old Island Highway for 5 km to a junction with Highway 14 at Goldstream Avenue. Highway 1A turned onto Goldstream Avenue and proceeded west for 6 km to its termination at Highway 1 just short of Goldstream Provincial Park. This route was the original Island Highway prior to the opening of the existing Trans-Canada Highway route in 1955 and 1956.
A 17 km-long segment of highway near Crofton and Chemainus carried the 1A designation. It started in the south at the intersection of Highway 1 and Mount Sicker Road. The Highway followed Mount Sicker Road and Chemainus Road east for 2 km to an intersection with Crofton Road. Chemainus Road and Highway 1A turned northwest, and went for 15 km through Chemainus to an intersection with Roland Lane, then subsequently turned west-southwest to meet the Trans-Canada Highway just south of Ladysmith 60 m later, where the second 1A loop terminated. This route was the original Island Highway prior to the opening of the existing Trans-Canada Highway, which by-passes the Chemainus area, in 1950.
Lower Mainland A 7 km-long segment of road between West Vancouver and Vancouver also had the 1A designation. It started in the north by sharing the alignment with Highway 99 from the Highway 1 interchange at Taylor Way over the Lions Gate Bridge and along West Georgia Street to Howe and Seymour Streets in Vancouver.
It formerly shared an 28 km alignment with Highway 99A from Seymour Street in Downtown Vancouver for 28 km all the way to 98 Avenue in Surrey via West Georgia Street, Main Street, Kingsway, 10th Avenue, McBride Boulevard, the Pattullo Bridge and King George Boulevard at which point Highway 1A diverged east. East of the diverge, Highway 1A was known locally as the Fraser Highway. The two- and four-lane highway went southeast for 9 km to its junction with Highway 15 in Surrey, then continued southeast for 5 km to a junction with Highway 10 in Langley. Another 15 km southeast and Highway 1A reached an intersection with Highway 13 at Aldergrove. 9 km east of the Highway 13 junction, the 1A segment finally terminated at an interchange with Highway 1 just west of Abbotsford (Exit 83).
The Chilliwack-Rosedale Yale Road East section ran from the Trans-Canada Highway at the Vedder Road crossing (Exit 119), through Chilliwack, Cheam and Rosedale, and reconnecting to the Trans-Canada Highway along with Highway 9 (Exit 135). This Yale Road section was part of the original Trans-Canada Highway route until the completion of the "401" Freeway section circa-1960.
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