National Highway System (Canada)

The National Highway System in Canada is a federal designation for a strategic transport network of highways and freeways. The system includes but is not limited to the Trans-Canada Highway, and currently consists of of roadway designated under one of three classes: Core Routes, Feeder Routes, and Northern and Remote Routes.
The Government of Canada maintains very little power or authority over the maintenance or expansion of the system beyond sharing part of the cost of economically significant projects within the network. Highways within the system are not given any special signage, except where they are part of a Trans-Canada Highway route.

History

The system was first designated in 1988 by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety, a council consisting of the federal, provincial and territorial Ministers of Transport. A total of of highway were originally designated as part of the system. Highways selected for the system were existing primary routes that supported interprovincial and international trade and travel, by connecting major population or commercial centres with each other, with major border crossings on the Canada–United States border, or with other transport hubs.
The system was further expanded in 2004, with the addition of approximately of highway that was not part of the original 1988 network. It was in this era that the current "core", "feeder" and "northern or remote" classes of route were established. Not all highways within the system are designated in their entirety, but may instead be part of the system over only part of their length; a few highways even have two or more discontinuous segments designated as part of the system. In some locations, the National Highway System may also incorporate city arterial streets to connect highway routes which are part of the system but do not directly interconnect, or to link the system to an important intermodal transport hub—such as a shipping port, a railway terminal, an airport or a ferry terminal—which is not directly located on a provincial-class highway.
Routes within the system continue to be maintained, funded and signed as provincial, rather than federal, highways. However, the federal government provides some funding assistance for important maintenance and expansion projects on designated highways through cost sharing programs. For instance, several recent maintenance projects on National Highway System routes in Saskatchewan were partly funded under the federal government's Building Canada Fund–Major Infrastructure Component, while several four-laning projects in Ontario in the 2000s accessed federal funding under the Strategic Highway Infrastructure Program.
There is no single, ongoing program for federal contributions to the National Highway System; rather, these contributions have been made through a variety of separate infrastructure investment programs of defined length and scope. Recent transportation planning proposals have identified public-private partnerships and dedicated fuel taxes as possible mechanisms for providing more stable funding, although no comprehensive program has been implemented to date.
The National Highway System has been criticized for lacking a truly comprehensive expansion plan. In many parts of the country, the system relies on two-lane highways, or expressways which are not fully up to international freeway standards; according to Lakehead University economics professor Livio di Matteo, many parts of the system, even on the main Trans-Canada Highway portion of the network, still leave "the nation’s east-west flow of personal and commercial traffic subject to the whims of an errant moose". Some motorists, further, prefer to drive between Western Canada and Eastern Canada by travelling through the United States rather than on Canadian highways; even though this represents a slightly longer trip than the Trans-Canada Highway route, it frequently takes a shorter amount of time due to the US Interstate system's higher speed limits, increased lane capacity and reduced likelihood of being delayed by a road accident.
American transportation planning academic Wendell Cox has also identified improvements to the system, so that Canada would have a comprehensive national freeway network comparable to the American Interstate Highway System, as an economically critical project for the country to undertake in the 21st century.

Routes

In its current form, the National Highway System includes routes in all Canadian provinces and territories except Nunavut, which has no conventional road connections to any other Canadian province or territory.
Officially the system maintains three classifications of road: Core, Feeder and Northern/Remote. Within the core and feeder classes, the system's official register made additional distinctions between conventional core or feeder routes and intermodal links or "anomalies", where a highway that does not meet the normal criteria for inclusion, or a municipal arterial road, has been adopted into the system to fill in a gap in the network. The "intermodal" and "anomaly" classes are not distinct designations, however, but simply represent an additional clarification of why the road holds "core" or "feeder" status. Since 2016, the "anomaly" category has been dropped and the portion is road is simply included in the specific list. The tables below do not include "intermodal" municipal streets which connect major highways to intermodal facilities.

Alberta

The system includes of highway in Alberta.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core				Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Hwy 3 in Fort Macleod	Hwy 216 in Edmonton		Part of CANAMEX Corridor.	-
	Core		Hwy 49 near Donnelly	Hwy 35 near Grimshaw		Part of corridor connecting Hwy 43 with the Mackenzie Hwy.	-
	Core		British Columbia border	Hwy 1 in Medicine Hat	Crowsnest Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core			Hwy 3 in Lethbridge		Part of CANAMEX Corridor	-
	Core		Hwy 1 near Calgary			Entire route	-
	Core		Hwy 16 in Edmonton	Hwy 28A in Edmonton		Part of Edmonton-Fort McMurray corridor.	-
	Core					Entire route.	-
	Core		Hwy 28A in Gibbons	Hwy 63 near Radway		Part of Edmonton-Fort McMurray corridor.	-
	Feeder		Hwy 63 near Radway	Cold Lake			-
	Core		Hwy 15 in Edmonton	Hwy 28A in Gibbons		Part of Edmonton-Fort McMurray corridor.	-
	Core		Hwy 2 near Grimshaw		Mackenzie Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core			Hwy 16 near Stony Plain		Entire route; part of CANAMEX Corridor.	-
	Core		Hwy 2 near Donnelly	Hwy 43 in Valleyview		Part of corridor connecting Hwy 43 with the Mackenzie Hwy.	-
	Northern / Remote		Rainbow Lake	Hwy 88 near Fort Vermilion			-
	Core		Hwy 28 near Redwater	Fort McMurray		Part of Edmonton-Fort McMurray corridor.	-
	Core		in Calgary	Hwy 1 east in Calgary	Stoney Trail	Northern portion of Calgary ring road.	-
	—	22	14	in Calgary	in Calgary	Stoney Trail	Officially not listed part of N.H.S.; eastern portion of Calgary ring road.
	Core		in Edmonton	Yellowhead Trail in Edmonton	Anthony Henday Drive	Southern portion of Edmonton ring road.	-
	—	30	18	in Edmonton	Yellowhead Trail in Edmonton	Anthony Henday Drive	Officially not listed part of N.H.S.; northern portion of Edmonton ring road.

British Columbia

The system includes of highway in British Columbia.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core		Victoria		Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route; includes ferry between Naniamo and West Vancouver.	-
	Core		Hwy 97 in Dawson Creek			Part of CANAMEX Corridor.	-
	Core		Hwy 1 in Hope		Crowsnest Highway	Entire route.	-
	Feeder		Hwy 19 near Qualicum Beach	Port Alberni			-
	Core		Hwy 1 in Hope	Hwy 16 at Tete Jaune Cache		Entire route.	-
	Core			Hwy 1 in Abbotsford			-
	Core			8th Avenue in Surrey		Part of corridor connecting the Pacific Highway Border Crossing and Hwy 99.	-
	Core		Prince Rupert			Entire mainland section.	-
	Core		Victoria	Hwy 99 in Delta		Includes ferry between North Saanich and Delta.	-
	—	31	19	Hwy 99 in Delta	Hwy 1 / Hwy 15 in Surrey	South Fraser Perimeter Road	Officially not listed part of N.H.S.; Hwy 17 extension.
	Core		Duke Point ferry terminal near Nanaimo	Hwy 4A near Parksville	Island Highway		-
	Feeder		Hwy 4A near Parksville	Hwy 28 in Campbell River	Island Highway		-
	Feeder		Hwy 16 near Terrace	Kitimat			-
	Northern / Remote		Hwy 16 at Kitwanga		Stewart–Cassiar Highway		-
	Feeder			Hwy 3 at Yahk			-
	Feeder			Hwy 97C at West Kelowna	Okanagan Highway		-
	Core		Hwy 97C in West Kelowna	Hwy 97A near Vernon	Okanagan Highway		-
	Core		Hwy 1 in Cache Creek				-
	Core		Hwy 97 near Vernon	Hwy 1 in Sicamous		Entire route.	-
	Core		Hwy 97A near Grindrod	Hwy 1 in Salmon Arm		Entire route.	-
	Core		Hwy 97 in Peachland	Hwy 5 in Merritt	Okanagan Connector		-
	Core			Whistler	Sea to Sky Highway		-
	Feeder		Langdale ferry terminial	Powell River	Sunshine Coast Highway		-
8th Avenue	Core		Hwy 99 in Surrey	Hwy 15 in Surrey		Part of corridor connecting the Pacific Highway Border Crossing and Hwy 99.	-

Manitoba

The system includes of highway in Manitoba.

New Brunswick

The system includes of highway in New Brunswick.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core		Canada-U.S. border	Route 2 near Petitcodiac		Entire route.	-
	Core				Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Route 1 in Saint John	Route 2 near Fredericton	Vanier Highway		-
	Feeder		Route 2 near Fredericton	Route 11 in Bathurst	Entire route.		-
	Feeder		Route 15 in Shediac	Route 17 near Campbellton			-
	Core		Moncton	Route 16 in Port Elgin			-
	Core		Route 2 at Aulac	P.E.I. border	Trans-Canada Highway	Includes NB portion of the Confederation Bridge.	-
	Feeder		Route 2 at Saint-Léonard	Route 11 near Campbellton			-
	Core		Canada-U.S. border	Route 2 in Woodstock		Entire route.	-
	Core		Route 1 at Rothesay	Saint John Airport		Intermodule connection.	-

Newfoundland and Labrador

The system includes of highway in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core		Channel-Port aux Basques ferry terminal	Route 30 in St. John's	Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Route 1 in St. John's	Port of St. John's	Pitts Memorial Drive		-
	Core		Route 1 in St. John's	St. John's International Airport	Portugal Cove Road		-
	Core		Argentia ferry terminal	Route 1 at Whitbourne		Ferry connection to Nova Scotia operates seasonally during the summer.	-
	Core		Route 1 near Lewisporte	Lewisporte	Road to the Isles		-
	Core		Route 1 near Bishop's Falls	Botwood			-
	Core		Route 1 in Corner Brook	Riverside Drive		Intermodule link to the Port of Corner Brook.	-
	Feeder		Route 1 in Deer Lake	St. Barbe ferry terminal		Ferry connection to Blanc-Sablon, Quebec	-
	Northern / Remote			Route 510 at Happy Valley-Goose Bay			-
	Northern / Remote			Route 500 at Happy Valley-Goose Bay	Trans-Labrador Highway	Entire route; excludes section of Quebec Route 138; ferry connection to St. Barbe.	-

Northwest Territories

The system includes of highway in the Northwest Territories.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core			Highway 3 near Fort Providence	Mackenzie Highway		-
	Northern / Remote		Highway 3 near Fort Providence	Wrigley	Mackenzie Highway		-
	Core		Highway 1 at Enterprise	Hay River	Hay River Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Highway 3 near Fort Providence	Highway 4 at Yellowknife	Yellowknife Highway	Entire route.	-
	Northern / Remote		Highway 3 at Yellowknife	Tibbitt Lake	Ingraham Trail	Entire route.	-
	Northern / Remote			Inuvik	Dempster Highway	Entire route.	-

Nova Scotia

The system includes of highway in Nova Scotia.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core		Hwy 102 / Trunk 1 in Bedford	Trunk 3 in Yarmouth		Entire route.	-
	Core		Halifax	Hwy 104 in Truro		Entire route.	-
	Feeder		Hwy 102 in Halifax	Yarmouth		Entire route.	-
	Core		New Brunswick border	Hwy 105 / Trunk 19 at Port Hastings	Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Hwy 105 / Trunk 19 at Port Hastings	Trunk 4 at River Tillard		Entire route.	-
	Core		Hwy 125 near Sydney Mines	North Sydney ferry terminal			-
	—	139	86	Hwy 104 / Trunk 19 at Port Hastings	Hwy 125 near Sydney Mines		Officially not listed part of N.H.S.; part of the Trans-Canada Highway.
	Core		Route 15 in Shediac	Caribou ferry terminal		Entire route.	-
	Core		Victoria Road in Dartmouth	Hwy 111 in Dartmouth	Circumferential Highway		-
	Feeder		Hwy 111 in Dartmouth	Pleasant Street in Dartmouth	Circumferential Highway		-
	Core		Hwy 111 in Dartmouth	Hwy 102 near Fall River		Entire route.	-
	Core		Hwy 105 in Sydney Mines	Trunk 4 in Sydney River	Peacekeepers Way		-
	Core		Hwy 104 at River Tillard	Hwy 125 in Sydney River			-
	Core		Hwy 101 at Conway	Digby Ferry			-

Ontario

The system includes of highway in Ontario.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core		Highway 401 in Toronto	Highway 69 near Carling	Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Highway 3 in Windsor		Macdonald–Cartier Freeway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Canada-U.S. border	Highway 401 in London		Entire route.	-
	Core		Highway 401 near Woodstock	Highway 401 / Highway 410 in Mississauga		Entire route; includes concurrency with QEW.	-
	Core		QEW in St. Catharines		General Brock Parkway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Pearson Airport	Highway 401 in Toronto	Belfield Expressway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Highway 401 / Highway 403 in Mississauga	Highway 10 north of Brampton		Entire route.	-
	Core		Highway 401 in near Johnstown	Highway 417 in Ottawa	Veterans Memorial Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core			Highway 17 near Arnprior	Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core		QEW in Niagara Falls	Canada-U.S. border		Entire route; combined with Niagara Regional Road 420.	-
	Core		QEW / Gardiner Expy in Toronto	in Vaughan		Entire route.	-
	Core		Canada-U.S. border	Highway 427 / Gardiner Expy. in Toronto	Unsigned Highway 451	Entire route	-
	Core		Canada-U.S. border	Highway 401 in Windsor	Huron Church Road		-
	Feeder		Highway 401 in Windsor	Highway 77 in Leamington			-
	Core		Canada-U.S. border	Highway 401 in Windsor	Dougall Avenue		-
	Core		Highway 403 in Hamilton	in Guelph			-
	Core		John C. Munro Airport	Highway 403 in Hamilton		Intermodule connection.	-
	Core		Highway 12 in Brock	Highway 417 in Ottawa	Trans-Canada Highway		-
	Core		Highway 8 in Kitchener	Highway 6 in Guelph		Excludes concurrency with Highway 8 between Kitchener and Stratford.	-
	Core		Highway 7 in Stratford	Highway 401 in Cambridge		Includes concurrency with Highway 7 between Kitchener and Stratford.	-
	Feeder		Highway 410 north of Brampton	Highway 26 in Owen Sound		Entire route.	-
	Core		Highway 400 in Barrie	Highway 17 in Nipigon	Trans-Canada Highway	Includes concurrency with Highway 17 in North Bay; excludes concurrency with Highway 17 between Nipigon and Shabaqua Corners.	-
	—	280	174	Highway 17 at Shabaqua Corners	Highway 71 in Fort Frances	Trans-Canada Highway	Not part of N.H.S., part of the Trans-Canada Highway; excludes concurrency with Highway 71.
	Core		Highway 7 in Brock	Highway 400 at Severn	Trans-Canada Highway	Excludes concurrency with Highway 400.	-
	Feeder		Highway 400 at Waubaushene	Highway 93 in Midland		Excludes concurrency with Highway 400.	-
	Core			Highway 401 near Johnstown		Entire route.	-
	Core		Highway 417 near Arnprior		Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Canada-U.S. border	Highway 17 in Sault Ste. Marie		Possible subject to revision, truck route via Carman's Way and Highway 550.	-
	Feeder		Highway 3 in Tillsonburg	Highway 401 near Ingersoll		Entire route	-
	Feeder		Highway 3 in Simcoe	Highway 403 in Brantford			-
	Core		County Road 19 near Collingwood	Highway 400 in Barrie			-
	Core		Highway 417 near Hawkesbury			Entire route.	-
	Core			Highway 11 / Highway 17 in Thunder Bay		Entire route.	-
	Core			Highway 11 near Swastika	Trans-Canada Highway		-
	Core		Highway 400 in Carling	Highway 17 in Sudbury	Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route	-
	Core		Canada-U.S. border	Highway 17 near Kenora	Trans-Canada Highway	Includes concurrency with Highway 11.	-
	Feeder		Highway 3 in Leamington	Highway 401 in Lakeshore		Entire route	-
	Feeder		Highway 144 in Timmins	Highway 11 in Matheson			-
	Core		Highway 17 near Serpent River	Elliot Lake			-
	Core		Highway 401 near Newcastle	Highway 7 in Peterborough		Entire route; includes concurrency with Highway 7.	-
	Core			Highway 401 near Lansdowne		Entire route.	-
	Feeder		Cornwall	Highway 417 near Casselman		Entire route; connects to Seaway International Bridge and U.S. border.	-
	Feeder		Highway 17 in Sudbury	Highway 101 in Timmins		Entire route.	-
	Feeder		Highway 34 in Hawkesbury	Highway 417 in East Hawkesbury		Former Highway 17.	-
Nicholas Street Rideau Street King Edward Avenue	Core		Highway 417 in Ottawa			Ottawa city streets connecting Highway 417 and Autoroute 5 in Gatineau, QC.	-

Prince Edward Island

The system includes of highway in Prince Edward Island.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core			Wood Islands Ferry Terminal		Entire route; includes PEI portion of the Confederation Bridge.	-
	Core		Route 1 near Albany	Route 2 near Summerside		Entire route.	-
	Core		Summerside	Route 1 in Charlottetown			-
	Feeder		Route 14 / Route 153 in Tignish	Summerside			-
	Feeder		Route 1 in Charlottetown	Souris			-
	Feeder		Route 1 at Cherry Valley	Georgetown		Entire route	-

Quebec

The system includes of highway in Quebec.

Saskatchewan

The system includes of highway in Saskatchewan.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core				Trans-Canada Highway	Entire route.	-
	Core		Hwy 1 in Moose Jaw	Hwy 11 at Chamberlain	Veterans Memorial Highway		-
	Core		Hwy 11 near Prince Albert	Hwy 3 / Hwy 303 in Prince Albert	Veterans Memorial Highway		-
	Northern / Remote		Hwy 3 / Hwy 303 in Prince Albert	Hwy 102 in La Ronge	CanAm Highway		-
	Core		Hwy 39 at Corinne	Hwy 1 in Regina	CanAm Highway	Regina – Weyburn – Estevan corridor.	-
	Core			Hwy 11 / Hwy 16 in Saskatoon		Entire route	-
	Core		Hwy 1 near Balgonie	Hwy 16 in Yorkton			-
	Core		Hwy 1 in Regina	Hwy 11 south Prince Albert	Louis Riel Trail	Entire route	-
	Core					Entire route.	-
	Core			Hwy 6 at Corinne	CanAm Highway	Regina – Weyburn – Estevan corridor.	-

Yukon

The system includes of highway in Yukon.

Route	Class	Length	Length	Southern or western terminus	Northern or eastern terminus	Name	Notes
	Core				Alaska Highway	Entire route.	-
	Feeder			Hwy 1 south of Whitehorse	Klondike Highway		-
	Northern / Remote		Hwy 1 north of Whitehorse	Hwy 5 south of Dawson City	Klondike Highway		-
	Northern / Remote		Hwy 2 south of Dawson City		Dempster Highway	Entire route.	-
	Northern / Remote			Hwy 1 near Upper Liard	Stewart–Cassiar Highway	Entire route.	-

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