Hi all,
So I loaded the CanVec Roads area for Victoria, and had it as a layer in JOSM. Then i selected the road that i was interested in, Copy & went to the active layer, and pasted it down. .. then moved it to the right place. Then hid the canvec layer. And uploaded the changes.

What i found, was that it's actually easier just to quickly trace that road with the GPS tracks layer also showing, to be sure where the road (most likely) is, and how it's layed out.

In many cases, the roads arn't as detailed as a mapper can do on the ground.

Ie. where the road doesnt actually turn, it's just a hill, where there is a footpath to the next street.

The default i put the road type is 'highway=road'. So it needs to be changed anyway. Although, i can change the script so that road names get listed, but not for provinces that dont have road names.

So the solution is to use the geobase2osm script, to handle the roads, so it will automatically insert all the roads that weren't hand-mapped, leaving the easy work of adding a node and attaching a segment to the OSM road.
osm.wiki/Geobase2osm

In conclusion, great work SteveS! (Currently working on the Ontario dataset)

Happy Mapping,
Sam Vekemans
Across Canada Trails