Building “The Road”

• On the Road

History

• A Chronology of Construction
• William Griggs and the 97th Engineers
• Pearl Harbor
• Locating the New Highway
• Surveying the Route
• Construction Begins
• Soldiers’ Summit
• Overall Impacts
• Impacts on Aboriginal People
• Impacts on Whitehorse
• The Public Roads Administration
• The Winds of War have Shifted
• The Road at War’s End
• The Road Since 1946
• Jerry Devries

Local Community

Map Zone

Painting the Highway

• A Y Jackson
• H G Glyde
• Euphemia McNaught
• Evelyn McBryan
• Sidney Clark Ells

Travel and Tourism

• Fort Nelson Museum
• Joan Watson de Bustin

The Highway Today

• Joanne Jackson Johnson
• Mile 497
• Valerie Salez
• Douglas Smarch
• Mike Yuhasz

York Wilson