In Stan Rogers's "Northwest Passage," there's a line "to race the roaring Fraser to the sea." Obviously about driving across BC. But the song may be too strong for your purposes.

On a related subject, are there any ballads or broadsides about Bill Miner, the train robber who lived (and robbed) in BC in the 1890s and 1900s? He started out as a stagecoach robber in the U.S. in the 1860s; he was sent up to San Quentin prison in California for 30 years, and when he was released in the 1890s, discovered that his profesison had become as outmoded as, well, the buggy whip. So when he was in his 60s, he invented a technology for robbing trains, disconnecting the locomotive and money-hauling baggage cars from the passenger vehicles. He was unfailing polite (his politeness was an identifier--when the trainmen said that the robber was polite to them the RCMP knew it was another Bill Miner heist) and lived a Robin Hood-like existence in BC, where his neighbors knew and loved him, and therefore protected him. In short, he was the sort of man ballads and broadsides are written about. Does anyone know any?

--Charlie Baum