5 Cut, Fill and Straighten: The Role of the Public Roads Administration in the Building of the Alaska Highway

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Photo Credits viii
5. Preface ix
6. Acknowledgements xvii
7. Planning the Highway
8. The Latent Fear: Canadian-American Relations and Early Proposals for a Highway to Alaska 1
9. T.D. Pattullo and the British Columbia to Alaska Highway* 9
10. The Realities of Strategic Planning: The Decision to Build the Alaska Highway 25
11. Building the Highway
12. General Bill Hoge and the Alaska Highway 39
13. Cut, Fill and Straighten: The Role of the Public Roads Administration in the Building of the Alaska Highway 54
14. The Army Medical Department and the Construction of the Alaska Highway 65
15. Surveying the Line: The Canadian Participation 75
16. Canadian Sovereignty and the Alaska Highway
17. The Army of Occupation: Malcolm MacDonald and U.S. Military Involvement in the Canadian Northwest* 83
18. The Alaska Highway in Canada-United States Relations 102
19. The Postwar Highway
20. “Really a Defile Throughout Its Length” The Defence of the Alaska Highway in Peacetime 119
21. The Civilian Highway: Public Works Canada and the Alaska Highway, 1964-83 133
22. The Impact of the Alaska Highway
23. The Alaska Highway and the Indians of the Southern Yukon, 1942-50: A Study of Native Adaptation to Northern Development 151
24. The Gravel Magnet:Some Social Impacts of the Alaska Highway on Yukon Indians 172
25. The Impact of the Alaska Highway on Dawson City 188
26. Index 205