Split up all the roads in Alberta, lay them end to end, and you'd have more than enough to reach the moon. Their exact travel routes varied from year to year, depending on the weather and wherever the easiest river crossings happened to be. "So long as we have earth roads we must expect bad roads during wet seasons," the report says. The result was a "huge boom in roads," says Nina Redding with the Alberta Motor Association. "Gumbo roads were impassable when they were wet … but the sand roads were impassable when they were dry," she says.

Source: CBC News October 01, 2018 12:22 UTC