Let’s go back to 1960 to see a new highway cutting through South Delta’s farmlands.
The photo shows the foundation of Highway 99 being built in East Delta in the vicinity of the Highway 10 overpass, which was still to be built.
St. Stephens Church can be seen in the left and the heights of North Delta in the distance.
This Delta Archives photo shows a variety of equipment hauling, grading, dampening and firming the sand foundation during the building of Highway 99 in East Delta. It was a controversial project at the time.
The conveyor from Boundary Bay where it empties sand into a hopper on the new Highway 99, which then fills large trucks with sand.
Dredgers loading sand taken from Boundary Bay into a conveyor that moved the sand to the building site of Highway 99.
