New Museum Commemorates Historic Highway

DAWSON CREEK - It was a wonder of engineering that transformed the northwest forever.

Before the construction of the Alaska Highway, the northwest was essentially a system of outposts on the frontier, bound in by muskeg and mountains.

When the American military moved in to construct the road in 1942, it was doing it to build a northwest supply route during the Second World War; the long-term effect was to build a burgeoning economic region.

The building of the 2,451-km highway from Dawson Creek to Delta Junction, Alaska, is considered a wonder of engineering.

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