General William Hoge’s boots first crossed the platform at the Dawson Creek Railroad station early in 1942. He came to lead thousands of Army Engineers into and through the far north wilderness. He led them to accomplish the near impossible, to construct 1600 miles of road through some of the most unforgiving terrain on …
Category Archives: Northern Canada Trails and Roads
George Johnston of Teslin
George Johnston lived in Teslin, Yukon Territory. George recorded Teslin on film. And George provided Teslin with the “Teslin Taxi”. Teslin Post In 1940 the tiny village housed about 130 Tlingit natives and a few white homesteaders and prospectors. Its name came from the Tlingit word meaning long narrow water. A Tlingit Elder, George documented …
Schemers and Dreamers
Schemers and dreamers, over a century and a half, created ways to travel and transport material through the great subarctic North—a few ways. This difficult piece of the world fought back at every turn. But over time a stream of adventurous; brave; inventive; and, above all, greedy schemers came to do battle with it. More …