CANADA, like the USA, makes jurisdictional decisions on whether or not it's ok to walk on limited - access roads - apparently in Alberta it's Ok.

FREE SHOWER SPOT: town park in VEGREVILLE (on Transcanada Hwy 16 east of Edmonton) formerly 'the Yellowhead Hiway' (road from Poartage Al Prairie), Manitoba (a western Winnipeg suburb) to north coastal British Columbia.
Look for 'the world's largest easter egg'.
Big Ukrainaian heritage in Alb...
So PEROGIES are eaten lots.
Also big LDS poulation so dr.pepper is very popular.
It didn't always have caffeine and back in the day the mormons took it in wagons up as restorative patent medicine - (really) all the way from TEXAS, so you can find a dr. pepper slurpee machine on occassion in Alb...

Basically, the directions you need are: YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T. - head to Peace River on Hwy 2 out of north Edmonton.
Yukon/Alaska: take Yellowhead Hiway (16) Hwy 43 and head for GRANDE PRAIRIE (you can go thru Slave Athabasca / Slave Lake, but take the ride going furthest. Try to get thru Edmonton tho)...
If you're on Hwy 2 between Calgary (pronounced 'cal GARY' by Canucks - NOT 'cal-guh-rie' like yankees.
Also Canadians don't talk as loud and VERY RARELY DRINK 44oz sodas.
A 44 oz soda lasts an American about an hour.
It lasts a canadian about 4hrs...
Also Canadians generally eat smaller portions of food and a cup of coffe is just 'a coffee'.
Canucks smoke more too - if you feel compelled to play this ruse out 'export a' is the least icky...

A TENT is handy in Alberta as there aren't too many highway overpasses in emergencies and it rains a LOT there...
I've been mugged in 'BOYLE' population 665 (intersection of Hwy 663 & 831) (road to Lac Al Biche).
The WEST Edmonton MALL is the inspiration for that monstrosity in Minneapolis...
Expect a higher redneck factor than USA - and remember in the great white north: the longer the hair = the redder the neck.
It's ill-advised to have a complexion darker than everybody else at all points north of Edmonton...
Natives (and people perceived to be them) get beaten / robbed and/or killed with disturbing regularity in that area...
Points south are relatively friendly tho...

Coolness: 50

Avg crossing time: hwy 16 (1 day)
Hwy 1 - Medicine Hat to Banff via Calgary: 8hrs
Edmonton to NW Territories: 1-2 days, but the sun never sets (helpful) and lotsa skeeters in summer (not so helpful).
Calgary to Edmonton: 4-6 hrs
Coutts Alb / Sweetgrass to Whitehorse, Yukon via Ethbridge / Calgary / Edmonton & Grande Prairie: 3 days...

(Thanx to 'the code of the north'...), I'll explain in NWT chapter...

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