The Alaska Highway Corridor is approaching 75 years.
BC’s Alaska Highway Community Society and the Alaska Highway Heritage Society in the Yukon have submitted a nomination to make the road a National Historic Site of Canada.
Chair, Bud Powell says if passed, they would like the designation centred around two important anniversaries.
“We are shooting for the nomination to be in 2017 which is the 75th anniversary of the highway and the 150th anniversary of Canada.”
Powell says it’s a fitting tribute to a historic road.
“The Alaska Highway was made in 1942 and the people who built it are passing on. The road has done great things for the north.”
The Alaska Highway Corridor is 1,900 kilometres from Dawson Creek through Northeastern BC and Yukon to the Alaska Border.
The nomination was submitted to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada on October 15th.
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