‘Life is a Highway’ in Manitoba: Stretch of road honours Tom Cochrane
WINNIPEG — Canadian rocker Tom Cochrane said he was overwhelmed Monday, as the Manitoba government named a section of highway near his hometown of Lynn Lake after one of Cochrane’s biggest hits, “Life Is A Highway.”
“If you can be humbled and flattered at the same time, I guess I’m a mixture of both,” the singer said.
“The town is, you know, a pioneer frontier town. People just have an indomitable spirit there. And I think that my dad and my mom instilled that in me. You know, my dad was a bush pilot up there. He helped open up the north. So I think I’ve taken some of that strong community spirit they had with me and sort of incorporated that into my music.”
A 322-kilometre section of provincial Highway 391, connecting Lynn Lake to Thompson, is being renamed Tom Cochrane’s Life Is A Highway, 25 years after the song reached best-selling charts in Canada and abroad.