instance_of british columbia highway 23
A ___MASK41___ is any ___MASK48___ ___MASK45___ or other ___MASK48___ way on land . It is used for major roads , but also includes other ___MASK48___ roads and ___MASK48___ tracks : It is " not " an equivalent term to controlled - access ___MASK41___ , or a translation for " autobahn ", " autoroute ", etc . The Snake ___MASK60___ is a major ___MASK60___ of the greater Pacific Northwest in the United States . At long , it is the largest ___MASK90___ of the Columbia ___MASK60___ , the largest North American ___MASK60___ that empties into the Pacific ___MASK91___ . Rising in western Wyoming , the ___MASK60___ flows through the Snake ___MASK60___ Plain of southern Idaho , then through the rugged Hells ___MASK51___ area via northeastern Oregon and the rolling Palouse Hills , to reach its mouth near the Washington Tri - Cities area , where it enters the Columbia . Its ___MASK33___ encompasses parts of six U . S . states , and its average discharge is over . The Columbia ___MASK37___ is a ___MASK32___ used in the Canadian ___MASK55___ of British Columbia to refer to the upper basin of the Columbia River in that ___MASK55___ . It includes a smaller region known as the Columbia Valley , near the river ' s headwaters at Columbia Lake in the Rocky Mountain Trench , and the Big Bend of that river , now mostly inundated by Kinbasket Lake and Revelstoke Lake . The area has no precisely defined boundaries but conventionally refers to the region upstream from Revelstoke , as the Arrow Lakes are generally referred to as a region in their own right , or as part of the West Kootenay . The lower Columbia , around the cities of Castlegar and ___MASK20___ is considered part of the West Kootenay , not the Columbia ___MASK37___ . The Trans - Siberian ___MASK41___ is the unofficial name for a ___MASK88___ of federal highways that span the width of Russia from the Baltic ___MASK84___ of the Atlantic Ocean to the ___MASK84___ of Japan of the Pacific Ocean . In the Asian ___MASK41___ Network , the route is known as AH6 . It stretches over from St . Petersburg to Vladivostok . The ___MASK45___ disputes the title of the longest national highway in the world with the Australia ' s ___MASK41___ 1 . Kinbasket ___MASK85___ ( or Kinbasket ___MASK10___ ) is a ___MASK10___ on the Columbia River in southeast British Columbia , north of ___MASK96___ of Revelstoke and the town of Golden . The ___MASK10___ was created by the ___MASK40___ of the Mica ___MASK73___ . The lake includes two reaches , Columbia Reach ( to the south ) and Canoe Reach ( to the north ), referring to the river valleys flooded by the ___MASK73___ . To the north it almost reaches the town of Valemount in an impoundment of the Canoe River . To the south it reaches upstream the Columbia River towards ___MASK96___ of Golden . Columbia ___MASK85___ is the primary ___MASK85___ at the headwaters of the Columbia River , in British Columbia , Canada . It is fed by several small tributaries . The ___MASK63___ of Canal Flats is located at the south end of the ___MASK85___ . A ___MASK33___ or catchment basin is an extent or an area of land where all ___MASK94___ from rain , melting snow , or ice converges to a ___MASK22___ point at a lower elevation , usually the exit of the basin , where the waters join another body of water , such as a river , lake , reservoir , estuary , wetland , sea , or ocean . Thus if a tributary stream joins a brook that in turn joins a small river which is a tributary of a larger river , there is a series of successively larger ( and lower elevation ) drainage basins . For instance , the Missouri and Ohio rivers are within their own drainage basins and also within the ___MASK33___ of the Mississippi River . The Trans - Canada ___MASK41___ ( French : " Route Transcanadienne ") is a transcontinental federal - provincial ___MASK41___ ___MASK62___ that travels through all ten provinces of Canada between its Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean coasts to the west and east respectively . It is , along with the Trans - Siberian ___MASK41___ and Australia ' s ___MASK41___ ___MASK71___ , one of the world ' s longest national highways , with the main route spanning . The ___MASK62___ was approved by the Trans - Canada ___MASK41___ Act of 1949 , with construction commencing in 1950 . The ___MASK41___ officially opened in 1962 , and was completed in 1971 . Upon its original completion , the Trans - Canada ___MASK41___ was the most lengthy uninterrupted ___MASK41___ in the world . The ___MASK41___ ___MASK62___ is recognizable by its distinctive white - on - green maple leaf route markers . The Rocky Mountains , commonly known as the Rockies , are a major ___MASK7___ in western North America . The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost ___MASK86___ of British Columbia , in western Canada , to New Mexico , in the southwestern United States . Within the North American Cordillera , the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the ___MASK69___ and the Cascade Range and ___MASK19___ Nevada which all lie further to the west . The Columbia ___MASK60___ is the largest ___MASK60___ in the Pacific Northwest ___MASK68___ of North America . The ___MASK60___ rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia , Canada . It flows northwest and then south into the US ___MASK3___ of Washington , then turns west to form most of the ___MASK28___ between Washington and the ___MASK3___ of Oregon before emptying into the Pacific Ocean . The ___MASK60___ is long , and its largest tributary is the Snake ___MASK60___ . Its ___MASK33___ is roughly the size of France and extends into ___MASK1___ US states and a Canadian ___MASK55___ . Canada ( French : ) is a ___MASK37___ in the northern half of North America . Its ___MASK16___ provinces and ___MASK53___ territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean , covering , making it the world ' s second - largest ___MASK37___ by total area and the fourth - largest ___MASK37___ by land area . Canada ' s border with the United States is the world ' s longest land border . The majority of the ___MASK37___ has a cold or severely cold winter climate , but southerly areas are warm in summer . Canada is sparsely populated , the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains . About four - fifths of the ___MASK37___ ' s population of 36 million ___MASK8___ is urbanized and live near the southern border . Its ___MASK65___ is Ottawa , its largest city is Toronto ; other major urban areas include Montreal , Vancouver , Calgary , Edmonton , Quebec City , Winnipeg and Hamilton . British Columbia ( BC ) is the westernmost ___MASK55___ of Canada , with a population of more than four million people located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains . British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest and the Cascadia bioregion , along with the U . S . states of Idaho , Oregon , Washington and Alaska . The Rocky ___MASK95___ Trench , also known as The ___MASK93___ of a Thousand Peaks or simply the Trench , is a large ___MASK93___ in the northern ___MASK86___ of the Rocky Mountains . It is both visually and cartographically a striking physiographic ___MASK27___ extending approximately from Flathead Lake , Montana to the Liard River , just south of the British Columbia - Yukon border near Watson Lake , Yukon . The trench bottom is 3 - 16 km ( 2  10 miles ) wide and ranges from 600 - 900 metres ( 2 , 000  3 , 000 feet ) above ___MASK84___ level . The general orientation of the Trench is an almost uniform 150 / 330 degree geographic north vector and has become convenient for north / south aviators . The Pacific ___MASK91___ is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic ___MASK91___ in the north to the Southern ___MASK91___ ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . A ___MASK90___ or affluent is a ___MASK9___ or river that flows into a larger ___MASK9___ or main stem ( or parent ) river or a lake . A ___MASK90___ does not flow directly into a ___MASK84___ or ocean . Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater , leading the water out into an ocean . The Atlantic ___MASK91___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s ___MASK81___ and about 29 percent of its ___MASK18___ ___MASK81___ area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The Pacific Northwest ( in the United States , commonly abbreviated as PNW ), sometimes referred to as Cascadia , is a ___MASK66___ in western North America bounded by the Pacific ___MASK91___ to the west and loosely , by the Rocky Mountains on the east . Though no agreed boundary exists , a common ___MASK98___ includes the U . S . states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian ___MASK55___ of British Columbia . Broader conceptions reach north into Alaska and Yukon , south into far northern California and east to the Continental Divide , thus including Idaho , Western Montana , and western Wyoming . Narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains . The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region ' s ___MASK70___ , geography , ___MASK39___ , and other factors . The maple ___MASK12___ is the characteristic ___MASK12___ of the maple ___MASK2___ , and is the most widely recognized national symbol of Canada . ___MASK41___ 23 is a north - south ___MASK41___ that straddles the Trans - Canada ___MASK41___ in the ___MASK55___ ' s Columbia Country region . Its section north of Revelstoke is known as the Big Bend ___MASK41___ and was part of the original routing of ___MASK41___ ___MASK71___ along the Columbia River . The Big Bend area was well known as there was a gold rush there , beginning in 1864 . Travellers used canoes or river steamers until a dirt - surfaced `` ___MASK41___ '' was built on the east bank around the Big Bend , from Revelstoke to Golden , from 1930 to 1937 , opening officially in 1940 , and it served as the trans - provincial ___MASK41___ until 1962 when the Rogers Pass route was opened . ___MASK41___ 23 was initially opened in 1964 , and it was re - aligned through the latter half of the 1960s . Realignment of the ___MASK41___ also occurred in the early 1980s , in anticipation of the creation of the reservoir for the Revelstoke Dam ( Revelstoke Lake ) , which flooded lower parts of the ___MASK41___ . The Columbia ___MASK93___ is the name used for a region in the Rocky Mountain Trench near the headwaters of the Columbia River between the town of Golden and the Canal Flats . The main hub of the ___MASK93___ is the town of Invermere . Other towns include Radium Hot Springs , Windermere and Fairmont Hot Springs . The ___MASK61___ Ski Resort is located near the ___MASK93___ .