Friends of Pacific New Media
Across the TransCanada
You don’t stumble onto your heritage. It’s there just waiting to be explored and shared.
—Robbie Robertson, Canadian musician, The Band
This work is the result of an ongoing series of road trips over the past decade to travel and photograph across the entire length of the TransCanada Highway.
The TransCanada stretches over 7800 km to join two oceans, 5 islands, six time zones and all ten provinces. Like many Canadians, I’ve lived close to and travelled the highway nearly all of my life. Since first traveling it as a young child shortly after its opening in 1962, the TransCanada has always been a presence.
This overall series focuses on the connection between people and place, examining themes of identity and nostalgia while finding intersections which connect the natural world and the man-made, urban and rural, mundane and sublime, west and east, and past and present.
This submission focuses on a subset of images from the series which deal with religious iconography. Churches, cemeteries and roadside memorials can be found across all sections of the highway, whether in large cities or along isolated stretches of the highway, and present an intriguing aspect of Canadian identity.
