Musin' Along the Yellowhead

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 THINGS OF INTEREST

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The Yellowhead Highway runs from Mile 0 at the Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba – paralleling Hwy #1 to Portage la Prairie and then becomes the Trans Canada Yellowhead Highway #16 stretching to Masset BC on the Queen Charlotte Islands.  Just past Mount Robson in British Columbia the highway branches south and becomes Yellowhead #5 ending at Hope BC – Mile 0 to the South.

This 3000km stretch of highways take you through several major cities where the arts are thriving.  But the real treat for travelers is the self guided touring of a road trip! 

Throughout this E-guide you will see the Yellowhead  icon - this means you don't even have to get off the trail to visit these venues.

Sometimes we recommend getting off the Yellowhead!!

• enSante Winery,  enSanté is Alberta's first and only organic-fruit cottage winery where the Chrapko family have been producing organic fruits and wines for over a decade...more

"It was the secret trail to the fur cache of its namesake, the golden-locked Iroquis Metis guide know as Tete Jaune, which translates literally to yellow head.  He 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.  In 1825, Tete Jaune led the Hudson's Bay Company through the pass that today still bears his name - the Yellowhead Pass. 

This path proved to be an easier route to BC and by 1830 the Yellowhead Trail was virtually a highway.  Red River carts rumbled through in the mid 1800's, miners passed along it in the Caribou Gold Rush of 1856 and the Overlanders followed it to Kamloops and Prince George to file homesteads in the West.  The railway followed and the push was soon on for a roadway.   In 1970 it was officially opened."  Terri Mason, Tanner Young Publishing, YellowheadIT! magazine 2005