12 Canadian Megaprojects That Will Completely Change the Country Forever

Canada is building again. Tunnels under Toronto, warships in Halifax, reactors on the Great Lakes, a port on Hudson Bay and a radar that sees over the curve of the Earth. We count down 12 real Canadian megaprojects, from the $6.4 billion Gordie Howe Bridge to Alto, the high speed train from Toronto to Quebec City that Parliament's budget watchdog now prices at up to $113 billion. Chapters 00:00 One point one 01:42 #12 Gordie Howe International Bridge 03:27 #11 PowerCo gigafactory, St. Thomas 05:14 #10 Contrecoeur container terminal 06:54 #9 Ontario Line 08:39 #8 Port of Churchill 10:25 #7 Ring of Fire roads 12:26 #6 Arctic Over the Horizon Radar 14:14 #5 River class destroyers and new submarines 16:18 #4 Bruce Power 18:09 #3 Darlington small modular reactor 19:57 #2 Churchill Falls and Gull Island 21:55 #1 Alto high speed rail Note: some scenes are AI-generated illustrations. Dates, figures and places come from public sources. Images: Wikimedia Commons (credits below). #Canada #Megaprojects #CanadaInvents Image credits (Wikimedia Commons): "Ambassador Bridge, Windsor, Ontario, 2025-06-01" by Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Ambassador Bridge from Queen's Dock, Windsor, Ontario, 2025-06-03 02" by Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Ambassador Bridge from Queen's Dock, Windsor, Ontario, 2025-06-03 04" by Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Barrie waterfront" by Gogerr, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Bloor-Yonge station at night" by Gogerr, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Bloor-Yonge station" by Gogerr, CC BY-SA 4.0 "TTC Bloor Yonge station" by wctaiwan, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Bruce Nuclear Generating Station" by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0 "Churchill Falls, Labrador welcome sign" by Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 "Port of Churchill at dusk" by Ian Stewart, CC BY-SA 3.0 "The Flats Churchill Manitoba" by Martin Lopatka, CC BY-SA 2.0 "Sea Port Churchill Manitoba (6309293030)" by Martin Lopatka, CC BY-SA 2.0 "Churchill river labrador" by Dsdwn, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Trans-Labrador Highway Route 500 4" by Dsdwn, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Exhibition GO Station (2025-01-18) 08" by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 2.0 "Exhibition GO Station (2025-01-18) 05" by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 2.0 "Exhibition GO Station (2025-01-18) 09" by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 2.0 "Ornate clock at Gare du Palais in Quebec City" by Wilfredor, CC0 "Main hall of Gare du Palais in Quebec City" by Wilfredor, CC0 "Gordie Howe International Bridge from Black Oak Park, Windsor, Ontario, 2025-06-07 02" by Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Gordie Howe Bridge under construction Feb 2024" by Judith Jackson, CC BY 2.0 "Halifax Shipyard June 2015 wide" by Citobun, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Halifax Shipyard July 2017" by Ben MacLeod, CC BY-SA 4.0 "HMCS Halifax FFH 330 at Hamilton Harbour" by GTD Aquitaine, Public domain "HMCS Athabascan (DDG 282) underway with HMCS Halifax (FFH 330) and HMCS Montreal (FFH 336) in September 2015" by U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Gaither, Public domain "HMCS Windsor SSK 877" by Alan Rowlands, Public domain "Kawartha Lakes city hall" by P199, CC BY-SA 3.0 "Toronto ON TTC-Subway Line-1 Yonge-University 2019-04-01 (3)" by Milan Suvajac, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Toronto ON TTC-Subway Line-1 Yonge-University 2019-04-01 (2)" by Milan Suvajac, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Toronto ON TTC-Subway Line-1 Yonge-University 2019-04-01 (5)" by Milan Suvajac, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Interior of Ottawa VIA Rail Station including ticket desk" by Colin Stepney, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Ottawa train station 2013 2" by JustSomePics, CC BY-SA 3.0 "Inside a busy Ottawa Train Station" by Oaktree b, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Centre Block - Parliament Hill" by Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0 "Parliament Hill from the Ottawa River" by Óðinn, CC BY-SA 2.5 ca "Port of Churchill aerial view" by anonymous donor, Public domain "Containers at the Port of Montreal" by Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 "Old Port of Montreal-2017" by Sarran Hamilton, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Thunder Bay skyline" by P199, CC BY-SA 3.0 "U Boot 212 HDW 1" by user:Stahlkocher, CC BY-SA 3.0 "Union Station Toronto August 2017 03" by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0 "Union Station, Toronto (30427373561)" by remundo, CC BY-SA 2.0 "Detroit Skyline from Windsor August 2024" by TheWxResearcher, CC0 "Windsor, Ontario Skyline" by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0