Yellowhead Highway Corridor.

It is the modern highway whose history is the song and legend of the voyageurs, the adventurous fur trade, the dreams of settlers and the fevered pitch of the Gold Rush.
It was the secret trail to the fur cache of the golden-locked Iroquois Metis guide known as "Tete Jaune". Tete Jaune, (literally translated as Yellowhead) was the nickname for the Iroquois Metis who guided for both of Canada's greatest business rivals, the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, the dominant fur traders of the world. His blazed path proved to be an easier route from Manitoba to British Columbia so that by the 1830s, the Yellowhead Trail was virtually a highway.
Red River carts rumbled along it in 1841, miners walked its length for the Caribou Gold Rush in 1856 and eager settlers followed it to file on their new homesteads in the West. The Trans-Canada Highway Association was formed in 1947 and drove the four Western Provincial Governments to build the Yellowhead Highway Corridor. The Yellowhead Highway was opened in 1970. We have enjoyed traveling this scenic route from Winnipeg to Edmonton but must leave it now to travel North to Dawson Creek, British Columbia.