The Building of the Alaska Highway In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska.

The building of the Alaska Highway, the only land access route between military bases in the 49th state and the lower 48 states, is a little known chapter of the ...

In that same edition, the Avalanche-Journal reported that Mrs. C. M. Chandler was to present a short report of the building of the “The Alcan Highway” at the home of Mrs. Charles Smith 2209 ...

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October 25 marks Alaska Highway Day - commemorating the day in 1942 when the Alaska highway was completed. The day also honors the contributions by ‘African American Soldiers’, who helped to ...

To counter this threat, officials proposed building a highway from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, in Canada, northwest to Fairbanks, Alaska. Troops and military supplies could then be trucked ...

St. George • Building a major highway through a national conservation area in southwest Utah would increase the spread of noxious weeds, spark more wildfires and increase the risk to Mojave ...

The Alaska Highway is one of the most legendary routes in North America, running over 2,200 kilometres from Dawson Creek, B.C., to Delta Junction in Alaska.

The Alcan Land Port of Entry was built in 1972 and needs new ... Alcan is located at milepost 1221 on the Alaska Highway, ... 18 housing units for employees and a recreation building. ...

Building the Alaska Highway | Article Alaska Natives Before Statehood. In the early spring of 1942 Alaska's population was approximately 73,000.

As we saw in part one of this series, the United States and Canada agreed to build a military highway from Fairbanks, Alaska to Dawson Creek, British Columbia in March 1942 in response to ...