The Alaska Highway story : a video history
(DVD)

Archival footage, historic photos and present day film scenes.

"Thanks to the U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers, the Public Roads Administration, the men and women who built and maintain the world famous Alaska Highway and my friend, the late Richard Finnie, who filmed construction work in 1942"--Container

Features the voices of Brigadier General William Hoge, the first U.S. commander in charge of construction; Carl Lindley, the lonesome G.I. who started the Watson Lake signpost forest; Robert Service, Yukon poet; Personal memories of soldiers who built the road.

In 1942 Canada and the United States agreed to build the Alaska Highway. It was designed to help defend the isolated American territory and the Northwest Staging Route, a series of airstrips in British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska. Construction began on March 8th, 1942 with the arrival of the 341st regiment of the U.S. Corp. of Engineers at Dawson Creek. In less than nine months, the pioneer road was complete and the official opening ceremony took place on November 20, 1942. In 1946, the American military turned the highway over to Canada.