The Ministry of Transportation has released another road trip time machine video, this one from Hope to Lytton.

This latest installment takes place around 1966 along Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon. Highlights from the video include the road and its seven tunnels.

In order to improve this portion of the Trans-Canada (the same general route used by the Royal Engineers to build the Cariboo Highway almost 150 years ago), some of the most difficult and expensive highway construction work in Canada had to be undertaken.

“Between 1957 and 1964, seven tunnels were bored through the Coast Mountains in order to allow the highway to pass through the canyon. The tunnels lie between Yale and Boston Bar and are named after nearby geographic features. They are (in order from south to north): Yale, Saddle Rock, Sailor Bar, Alexandra, Hell’s Gate, Ferrabee and China Bar Further major rock scaling projects were completed during 1974 – 1975 at Hell’s Gate and additional improvements (including new lanes) have continued since then,” said the Ministry.

A significant milestone can be seen at the 4:28 minute mark, as the video crosses the Fraser River on the new Alexandra Bridge. The bridge replaced the old suspension bridge that transported motorists.

The Ministry recorded the videos from 16mm film footage taken in 1966. The original photologs were collected by rigging a camera onto the dash of a car that took still images every 80 feet or so and then running them all together as a single film.