Alcan Highway

Our neighbors to the north somehow managed to complete construction of the 1,522-mile long Alaska-Canada Highway--also known as the Alcan Highway--in a mere eight months.

The Will to Build (UPDATED) 2007

Our neighbors to the north somehow managed to complete construction of the 1,522-mile long Alaska-Canada Highway--also known as the Alcan Highway--in a mere eight months.

June 2007 2007

His was stationed in Dawson Creek where he helped build the Alcan Highway, a land link between our 49th state and the lower 48 in case of a Japanese attack.

Lisa Witter: Fairness and Steroids: What the Mitchell Report Tells America About Itself 2008

THE DAY BERYL LEAVES to drive up the Alcan Highway with Earl and Verde is wetter than El Niño, and we end up spending the morning staking plants.

BAD GIRL CREEK Jo-Ann Mapson 2001

Driving the Alcan Highway with a parrot is not for the faint of heart.

BAD GIRL CREEK Jo-Ann Mapson 2001

Mr. KENAN: Yes, this was after I had driven it and sort of had this sort of spiritual moment on Kluane Lake, which is this large glacial lake up in the Yukon, and I got up there and I, you know, found out -- and this was after having picked up all these souvenirs and -- and books about the Alcan Highway, which folks don't know is about 1,900 miles long.

Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century 1999

We puffed up the Alcan Highway in our old Deadhead Volkswagen bus, camping or stopping in little Canadian towns along the way.

Forever Free Haldeman, Joe 1999

With the growth of the old interstate highway system and the Alcan Highway it became increasingly evident that variation in motor vehicle laws from state to state and country to country were creating impossible situations for any uniform safety control.

Code Three Rick Raphael 1956

After a honeymoon to Tucson, the couple drove up the Alcan Highway to Alaska, where Gil was serving in the Army Ordnance Corps.

Fore, right! < 2010

His early days were spent flying with his father over the Alcan Highway to Alaska.

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