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The Trans Canada Highway is also named after two men who are they and why is it named after them?
MacDonald-Cartier Freeway
(John A. MacDonald, George-Etienne Cartier) ===================================== You might be surprised to learn that the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway is not part of the Trans-Canada Highway. The highway was so named to honour the two major founding fathers of Confederation and to promote national unity. P.S. There's no capital 'd' in Macdonald. And there is a hyphen in Trans-Canada.
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