.svg) Highway 106 | ||||
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| Route Transcanadienne | ||||
| Jubilee Highway Trans-Canada Highway | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal | ||||
| Length | 19.38 km[1] (12.04 mi) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  Hwy 104 (TCH) near New Glasgow | |||
  Trunk 6 / Route 376 at Pictou | ||||
| North end |  Northumberland Ferries terminal in Cariboucontinues as  Route 1 (TCH) in Prince Edward Island | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | Canada | |||
| Province | Nova Scotia | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Highway 106 is a 19 km (12 mi) 2-lane limited-access highway located within Pictou County, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The provincial government named the highway the Jubilee Highway on December 21, 2012 in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.[2]
The highway is part of the Prince Edward Island loop of the Trans-Canada Highway and connects the Northumberland Ferries terminal in Caribou in the north with the mainline Trans-Canada at Highway 104 near Mount William in the south, 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of New Glasgow.
- ^ Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal. Primary Traffic Volume Book, 2003–2010 (PDF) (Report). Province of Nova Scotia. pp. 155–156. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 20, 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
- ^ "Highway Naming Commemorates 60-Year Reign" (Press release). Government of Nova Scotia. December 21, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2013.