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Originally Posted by rousseau
Wait...what? I've always thought Winnipeg was smack dab in the middle between Toronto and Vancouver. I've done the drive between southern Ontario and Winnipeg a dozen times all three ways, and it was always verging on 24 hours.
Just checked on Google Maps:
Via northern Ontario: 2,079 km
Via northern Michigan-Wisconsin: 2,032 km
Via Detroit-Chicago-Minneapolis: 2,236 km (though that's the fastest way due to the interstate highways)
Winnipeg to Vancouver: 2,294 km
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Yeah, I used "as the crow flies" numbers to be as objective as possible. I would think that driving makes Winnipeg closer or farther to Toronto than Vancouver...I have done the drive numerous times to Vancouver, and while driving through most of Saskaberta is swift (especially in Sask...the road is as straight as an arrow), the BC part is very winding and up-and-down. On the other hand, that part along the North Shore of Lake Superior is extremely winding.