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The First of Hoge’s Soldiers Arrive in Dawson Creek

Hoge’s recon was revealing the breath-taking scale of the problems he and his soldiers were about to take on.  Elsewhere, especially in Washington, the Corps of Engineers was convulsing.  The chaotic storm of planning and planning again, of organizing and reorganizing intensified accordingly.  The telephone lines burned with requests and orders and fingers bounced over …

Hoge met McCusker in February

In February, tasked to command the Alcan Project, Colonel Hoge raced from Washington to Dawson Creek and found Knox McCusker. As they drove the winter trail up from Fort St John, McCusker made his first major contribution to the project; warned the colonel that the trail he travelled would disappear in the March thaw.  Clearly …