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The portion of the Alaska Highway in Alaska is designated Alaska Route 2. In Yukon, it is Highway 1 (designated in 1968) and in British Columbia, Highway 97. The portion of the Alaska Highway in Alaska is also unsigned Interstate A-1 and unsigned Interstate A-2.
Mar 5, 2013 · The highway is an enduring link to northern British Columbia and the Yukon. The Alaska Highway was constructed from 1942 to 1943 during the Second World War. It went from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Alaska....
Over the next eight months, more than 25,000 men — a mix of Canadian and American civilians and some 11,000 soldiers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — stubbornly punched a path from Dawson Creek in northeastern British Columbia through the Yukon to a small town in Alaska named Delta Junction.
The Alaska Highway stretches 2,450 kilometres (km) across northern British Columbia (B.C.) and southern Yukon into Alaska. Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is the custodian for the 835 km of the highway that the Government of Canada is responsible for.
May 24, 2017 · The Canadian portion is now managed in sections by the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, the federal government and the Yukon government. Today, the Alaska Highway is fully paved and accommodates all kinds of travellers – from commercial traffic, to caravans of recreational vehicles that yearly carry more than a 100,000 ...
The Alaska Highway from Haines Junction to Beaver Creek, Canada’s westernmost community is wild open wilderness. This stretch of the Alaska Highway parallels the park’s majestic front ranges to Destruction Bay, Burwash Landing and beyond to Beaver Creek.
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