When the pioneer road that was the foundation for the Alaska Highway ... with just a few signs now includes directions to more than 1,000 destinations. The area around the highway is largely ...

1942, U.S. Army. Signal Corps. When President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the building of the Alaska Highway in February 1942, the problem of who would actually do the construction quickly arose.

It's located at Mile 300 (Kilometre 483) on the Alaska Highway, a travel route with its origin in Dawson Creek, B.C., that stretches more than 2,000 kilometres through Whitehorse and on to the ...