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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""SECTION 1: PLANNING THE HIGHWAY""; ""1. The Latent Fear: Canadian-American Relations and Early Proposals for a Highway to Alaska""; ""2. T.D. Pattullo and the British Columbia to Alaska Highway""; ""3. The Realities of Strategic Planning: The Decision to Build the Alaska Highway""; ""SECTION 2: BUILDING THE HIGHWAY""; ""4. General Bill Hoge and the Alaska Highway""; ""5. Cut, Fill and Straighten: The Role of the Public Roads Administration in the Building of the Alaska Highway"" |
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""6. The Army Medical Department and the Construction of the Alaska Highway""""7. Surveying the Line: The Canadian Participation""; ""SECTION 3: CANADIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ALASKA HIGHWAY""; ""8. The Army of Occupation: Malcolm MacDonald and U.S. Military Involvement in the Canadian Northwest""; ""Appendix: Note on Developments in North-Western Canada""; ""9. The Alaska Highway in Canada-United States Relations""; ""SECTION 4: THE POSTWAR HIGHWAY""; ""10. ""Really a Defile Throughout its Length"": The Defence of the Alaska Highway in Peacetime"" |
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""11. The Civilian Highway: Public Works Canada and the Alaska Highway, 1964-83""""SECTION 5: THE IMPACT OF THE ALASKA HIGHWAY""; ""12. The Alaska Highway and the Indians of the Southern Yukon, 1942-50: A Study of Native Adaptation to Northern Development""; ""13. The Gravel Magnet: Some Social Impacts of the Alaska Highway on Yukon Indians""; ""14. The Impact of the Alaska Highway on Dawson City""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y"" |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Roads -- Alaska -- History -- Congresses
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Roads
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| SUBJECT |
Alaska Highway -- History -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Alaska
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North America -- Alaska Highway
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780774857512 |
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077485751X |
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