We then left for Dawson Creek BC, which is where the Alaskan Highway began. We all took plenty of pictures of the sign, marking mile O of the highway and also met up for a group picture. (Haven’t received it yet). The surveyor, made completely of scrap metal points Northwest to a mud path which finally became the Alaskan Highway. We visited the Alaska Highway House Museum and were fascinated with the fact that 10,000 army soldiers and civilians completed this highway in only 8 months, facing extreme temps of 70 below O, insects, swamps, rivers, ice, mountains with only 7,000 pieces of equipment that took a beating, most abandoned because of breakdowns and no parts to repair them. This all occurred to build the highway because we had to protect North America from the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. Can you imagine what these men did in 8 months when nowadays it takes 8 months or more to have a pothole repaired in the middle of a big city.
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