#Alaska Highway

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Driving the Alaska Highway at dusk

Taken October 2022

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The Northern Lights hover eerily over the Alaska Highway in B.C.

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Free Road Ahead

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Soldiers drain water from an ice hazard west of the White River in Alaska, on February 23, 1943. 

Record Group 30: Records of the Bureau of Public Roads

Series: Historical Photograph Files

File Unit: Highways - Alaska - 42-5260 through 43-1482

Image description: Three Black* men stand on an ice-covered road. Two of the men wear hats with fuzzy earflaps and are swinging pickaxes at the ice; the third man, wearing a campaign hat, is watching them. In the background is a truck, pine trees, and lots of snow. 

*I am mentioning race because this photo depicts a segregated military, and illustrates the kind of work that this Black military unit was assigned to do.

Transcription: 

Field No - 00367

FORM 114 Alaska Highway 

No. 43-1446 

State Alaska

Place

30-N-43-1446 Box 70

Description. Negro soldiers draining water from an ice hazard west of the White River. Taken February 23, 1943. 

Taken by Gail K. Pinkstaff. 

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stone sheep hanging out along the alaska highway. stone mountain provincial park, british columbia, july 2018.

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Above: Alaska Highway Roadhouse, Yukon Territory, Canada.

A RARE GLIMPSE OF A BYGONE ERA.

Welcome back. In the past couple of posts, I presented photographs showcasing the remote northern beauty of YUKON TERRITORY along the ALASKA HIGHWAY.

I’m happy to share more of the photography series with an introduction to a bygone era: the ALASKA HIGHWAY ROADHOUSE.  

HISTORY: THE ALASKA HIGHWAY ROADHOUSE.

Many Alaska Highway roadhouses evolved from American military camps built during the construction of the 2,700 kilometre highway completed in 1942. 

It may not look like much, however a roadhouse offered respite from harsh weather conditions with a place to sleep, meals and gasoline, and were spaced no more than a day's drive apart.

THE YUKON TERRITORY SERIES.

Originally photographed in 2015, it’s incredibly interesting to revisit these photographs almost 8 years later, and have the opportunity to perform more work on them. One of the details I’m taken with are the snow-capped mountain peaks. Though it was summer, snow is visible year-round.

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Speaking of the Al-Can highway, I found a great little tourist plaque in the thrift store the other day:

So yeah, this is totally the image we sell to tourists driving through our biggest tourist attraction.

Tourism coordinator: Hey, the Alaska highway is really bad, but tourists love it anyway

Infrastructure manager: So you want us to fix it?

Tourism coordinator: oh god no! We're going to make funny merch about how bad it is, and the tourists can feel like they're in on the joke and have done something daring and difficult. They eat this stuff up!

Infrastructure manager: Phew, that's good news! It'll save us a fortune!

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Day 13 of our journey north to Alaska and also day 1 on the Alaska Highway. Woo Hoo! We have traveled about 3700 miles. We just left Dawson Creek, British Columbia…Alaska bound! It’s a chilly, windy 60 degrees right now. Mike is having fun keeping things on the road in the wind. Wish us safe travels!

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Airstreaming to Alaska - Chapter 10: The Alaska Highway

We finely made it to the Alaska Highway! The AlCan was born to be a military supply route, but it grew up to be a story-teller. This unforeseen attribute – like an E-ticket ride at Disneyland – had us riveted from Mile-0.

Posted October 7, 2022 – Narrated by Carmen To listen to the podcast, click the play button Chapter 10 of the “Airstreaming to Alaska” series. “To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”Robert Louis Stevenson from the essay, El Dorado The Alaska Highway was born to be a military supply route, but it grew up to be a story-teller. Just Leaf Me Bee by…

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“Big Trucking Job Underway In the North,” Vancouver Sun. January 17, 1942. ---- 1500 Tons of Airport Material Being Moved Into Fort Nelson ---- Special to The Vancouver Sun DAWSON CREEK, Jan. 17. - A week of above freezing temperatures which has made the Peace River crossing at Taylor Flats hazardous, has failed to prevent the truck shipments of 1500 tons of airport material to Fort Nelson from going on its way north from railhead here. No major incident has been reported since the first convoy of 10 trucks left here on January 9. 

The temperature has not dropped below the freezing point since last Saturday, and the Taylor crossing fell under a warning order from the Department of Public Works at Pouce Coupe last Monday. There is still traffic across it, in apparent defiance of the warning. 

Air mall is coming down from Fort St. John airport on schedule. The late development has forced the heavy trucks, each bearing an average load of five tons of asphalt or other transport materials to unload on the south side of the Peace, cross empty, reload on the opposite side after teams of horses haul the freight across the hazardous crossing. The trucks are streaming out of here, ten at a time, dally. 

E. J. Spinney, who was awarded the $90,000 hauling contract from Western Construction Co., building the port for the Dominion Government, received word from Ottawa Thursday telling him to get the freight across the river thaw or no thaw. And that is what lie is doing. Since the freight started moving last Friday, it is estimated 200 tons have been trucked across the ice and on up to Sikanni about 200 miles from the Dawson Creek railhead. It is being cached there, as the road from that point to Fort Nelson Is not yet fit for travel. 

Between 50 and 75 trucks are being used for the work. Each convoy has a caboose lor sleep mg quarters and a cookhouse, Airport equipment and asphalt for airport runways are included in the freight.

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The Alaska Highway in Yukon, Canada

National Geographic - April, 1978

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Highway views, Alberta to Haines Junction

Taken November 2022

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Exceptional photos of this unique polar phenomenon in the NWT

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Muncho Lake, BC (No. 1)

Muncho Lake is a highway services community in northern British Columbia, Canada, located at Mile 462 on Highway 97, the Alaska Highway, within Muncho Lake Provincial Park and on the south end of the lake of the same name. The community consists almost entirely of travel and tourism-related businesses such as lodging, game outfitting, restaurants, gas stations and fishing outfitting.

Source: Wikipedia

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Detour in Place - August 2023 There is a problem with construction on the Alaska Highway. There is nowhere to go but where the highway was dug through the hills and mountains. That means that occasionally, you end up driving through the construction area. This three mile long nightmare was between Seward and Anchorage. They close the road for two hours to blast at night and then spend the rest of the time picking up the rock and gravel they have dislodged. Needless to say, you drive very slowly through these construction zones. MWM

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