Trans-Canada Highway reopens near Boston Bar, B.C., after seven-week wildfire closure

BOSTON BAR — A stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway through British Columbia’s Fraser Canyon has reopened after being shut down due to wildfires for more than seven weeks.

The area just south of Boston Bar had been closed since July 7 due to the Brunswick complex of wildfires — among the largest in the province this season.

The B.C. Transportation Ministry says a two-kilometre stretch of the highway has been reopened with single-lane alternating traffic in order to support infrastructure restoration by BC Hydro.

The ministry says a pilot vehicle will guide traffic and that temporary full closures are still possible due to blasting and tree-falling by crews replacing hydro poles.