A present-day map ... an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry to Hyder to give access to Canada and the Lower 48 by road. In some locations a 20-foot wide border line was cut through vegetation.
The 1,520-mile road through ... Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska when it was finished, and at the time it was one of the world's longest open-wire circuits. All the things we learned about the Alaska ...
Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate ... then try to weave through Canada's Arctic islands, before going down the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia.
In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Rosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers ...
In a news release on Monday, RCMP say the collision happened at about 2 a.m. Saturday near the city's Porter Creek ...
Follow a wooden boardwalk path through a warm-water swamp and boreal forest to soak in Canada’s second largest ... stop for drivers on the nearby Alaska Highway. "The hot springs draw people ...
through a series of federal court decisions won by Indian rights lawyers. The result today, in the highly politicized rod-and-gun world of Alaska, is a jury-rigged system known as “dual management.” ...
About 30 million financial transactions take place in Canada daily. Ranging in size from a ... the same way a network of roads, highways and bridges move traffic through cities and across the country.
(Take a majestic mountain drive through Alberta.) An hour farther up the Bow River Valley via the Trans-Canada Highway is drop-dead ... Pick up a map or bus schedule at the Banff or Lake Louise ...
One of the top-rated attractions in Skagway is the White Pass Summit Scenic Railroad journey through Alaska's wilderness ... border between the U.S. and Canada – you'll listen to the history ...
These were brought up on the Alaska Highway when we moved here. A snippet from, say, Grandma’s Christmas cactus became instant family when settling so far away from home. Today, that Christmas ...
In 1894 a Canadian surveyor named William Ogilvie hiked to the top of Mount McGinnis to photograph the peaks protruding ...