Driving from Toronto to Edmonton (How Far Is Edmonton From Toronto)

Driving from Toronto to Edmonton

eh1eh

#31

Jan 2nd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by YukonJack

I bought a whole bunch of picks, shovels and wheel barrows with all the outrageous taxes I pay, even as a retired person.

Only an inexperienced stay-at-home idiot, who never travelled more than two yards from Mommie's basement would call recommendation for a better, cheaper and faster route, griping.

What a closed minded idiot you are Jack. Hope your Mom's basement is comfy. LOL.

YukonJack

#32

Jan 2nd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by lone wolf

Nice self description, Jack. Glad to see you're opening up about yourself.

What makes you qualified to recommend anything more than your version of a good mix?

Still griping - as in all the other ones where you whine about having to slow down.

lone wolf, I speak from experience. I travelled Canada coast to coast. From the St. Lawrence River to Chibogamou. From Toronto to Red Lake. From Osoyoos to Peace River. From Calgary to Fort McMurray. From Winnipeg to Vancouver via the Yellowhead or through the Kicking Horse Pass or the Crownest Pass.

I also travelled the United States East and West, North and South and I even spent a couple of months - against my best judgement - in Sudbury, one night.

EXPERIENCE! That is what makes me qualified.

lone wolf

#33

Jan 2nd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by YukonJack

lone wolf, I speak from experience. I travelled Canada coast to coast. From the St. Lawrence River to Chibogamou. From Toronto to Red Lake. From Osoyoos to Peace River. From Calgary to Fort McMurray. From Winnipeg to Vancouver via the Yellowhead or through the Kicking Horse Pass or the Crownest Pass.

I also travelled the United States East and West, North and South and I even spent a couple of months - against my best judgement - in Sudbury, one night.

EXPERIENCE! That is what makes me qualified.

Experience, my ass. It's probably quite safe to say I have backed up more miles than you've ever driven - even at your advanced age. If Canada was to embark on a project so you could drive from east coast to west coast on US-styled Interstates, I expect you'd be the first one to gripe about such a "socialist" project - so put up or shut up.

I bet Sudbury was glad to be rid of you.

karrie

#34

Jan 2nd, 2011

Enough

El Barto

#35 Top Rated Post

Jan 2nd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by karrie

Enough

I could let you spank me ,just as an example to those guys

anything for a smoother forum

lone wolf

#36

Jan 2nd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by El Barto

I could let you spank me ,just as an example to those guys
anything for a smoother forum

Wa-aa-ay cool!

I was worried about Karrie bruising her hand spanking this calloused old trucker butt....

DaSleeper

#37

Jan 2nd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by lone wolf

Experience, my ass. It's probably quite safe to say I have backed up more miles than you've ever driven - even at your advanced age. If Canada was to embark on a project so you could drive from east coast to west coast on US-styled Interstates, I expect you'd be the first one to gripe about such a "socialist" project - so put up or shut up.

I bet Sudbury was glad to be rid of you.

Sudbury: A nice place to visit...but I wouldn't want to live there....between winter and construction...the traffic is worst than T.O. and the one ways are confusing as hell to a GPS navigator

lone wolf

#38

Jan 2nd, 2011

Sudbury is LA without the freeways - and the construction is ongoing. Toronto is organized confusion. Sudz isn't even organized - aside from being Greater than something.

One-ways? How many directions can you go?

Kreskin

#39

Jan 2nd, 2011

Lets not get too complicated. Get on the Trans Canada and keep driving until you see a turn off for Edmonton.

lone wolf

#40

Jan 2nd, 2011

Hell, he should'a been there four-and-a-half years ago....

damngrumpy

#41

Jan 2nd, 2011

The other way after going to Thunder Bay and Winnipeg is to drive into Saskatchewan and from Regina go north.
You will get onto Highway 16 the Yellowhead route and it takes you right into Edmonton, done that before it is a
good alternate route.

lone wolf

#42

Jan 2nd, 2011

Through Ontario in winter, you're probably safer to take Hwy 11 and stay inland. Hills and lake effect snow make for some tricky driving - and 17 gets closed between Batchewana and Wawa frequently.

Dexter Sinister

#43

Jan 2nd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by YukonJack

EXPERIENCE! That is what makes me qualified.

No doubt, but you missed the key point so your qualifications don't matter. Both the OP from 2006 and the more recent post #17 from another poster asking essentially the same question were clear that neither of them wanted to enter U.S. territory, and I can think of good reasons why some people might not want to or might not be able to. Telling them they should anyway isn't good advice and doesn't help them.

Tonington

#44

Jan 3rd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by manzurshamsi

Hello everyone, I have a planning to go toronto from edmonton by car the first week of January 2011.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it appears to me, that manzurshamsi wants to travel east, not west. The directions so far have been from east to west...

YukonJack

#45

Jan 3rd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Dexter Sinister

No doubt, but you missed the key point so your qualifications don't matter. Both the OP from 2006 and the more recent post #17 from another poster asking essentially the same question were clear that neither of them wanted to enter U.S. territory, and I can think of good reasons why some people might not want to or might not be able to. Telling them they should anyway isn't good advice and doesn't help them.

Some people would refuse drive through the States, because they are, plain and simple, Anti-American. I could name at least a half a dozen of those on this forum.

edmontonewbie gave no reason why he would be reluctant to enter U.S. territory.

DaSleeper

#46

Jan 3rd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by YukonJack

Some people would refuse drive through the States, because they are, plain and simple, Anti-American. I could name at least a half a dozen of those on this forum.

edmontonewbie gave no reason why he would be reluctant to enter U.S. territory.

Maybe because it would be shorter....anyway...it's a moot point because in 2006 edmontonnewbie when he got to Thunderbay, he took highway 11 instead of 17, stopped at Mcdonald on the highway in Kapuskasing got a job there and is now manager of the place...........so there

YukonJack

#47

Jan 3rd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by DaSleeper

Maybe because it would be shorter....anyway...it's a moot point because in 2006 edmontonnewbie when he got to Thunderbay, he took highway 11 instead of 17, stopped at Mcdonald on the highway in Kapuskasing got a job there and is now manager of the place...........so there

Not to be sticky, but Hwy 11 and 17 split at Nipigon, not Thunder Bay.

lone wolf

#48

Jan 3rd, 2011

...and for the more recent guy leaving from Toronto, it doesn't matter. He'll have to make his decision between Barrie and Orillia

YukonJack

#49

Jan 3rd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by lone wolf

...and for the more recent guy leaving from Toronto, it doesn't matter

Only that Toronto to Nipigon via #17 is 65 kilometers shorter than via #11.

lone wolf

#50

Jan 3rd, 2011

Have you done it in winter? 17 was closed between Batchawana and Wawa again last night.

YukonJack

#51

Jan 3rd, 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by lone wolf

Have you done it in winter? 17 was closed between Batchawana and Wawa again last night.

Yes, lone wolf (sigh) I did many times. And in the Winter I would (and actually next week I will) take the Northern Route.

I just pointed out a fact.

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