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My hometown is the most westerly community in Canada. It is also where construction crews made the final connection of the Alaska Highway on October 28, 1942.
Beaver Creek - September 1993
Aerial view of Beaver Creek - September 1986
The two-room, eight-grades, school I attended is the building with the blue roof on the right. Canada Customs was located in front of the three white houses lined up on the left.
Beaver Creek - December 1998
The Customs building is now located a mile north of town, near the Beaver Creek airport. This airfield was cut out of the bush almost single-handedly by my Dad in the early 1960s so he could enjoy his passion: flying. The airport has since been expanded and is now operated by the Yukon government.
View of Canada Customs and Stalberg Airfield from Red Hill, just north of Beaver
Creek - June 2008
Monument at the airport near Beaver Creek, dedicated to my father
Jack Stalberg,
who built the airfield in the 1960s - June 2008
Text on the monument at Stalberg Airfield, dedicating the airport to my Dad,
Jack Stalberg - June 2008
View west of Alaska Highway between Beaver Creek and the Alaska Border - June
2008
View west of Alaska Highway between Beaver Creek and the Alaska Border - June
2008
The signs at the Yukon/Alaska border have changed over the years, from rustic to more grand.
Sign at the Yukon/Alaska border - September 1986
I liked this sign and think it unfortunate that it is gone now.
Sign at the Yukon/Alaska border - September 1986
Sign at the Yukon/Alaska border - September 1993
Yukon/Alaska border - September 1995
The END of the Alaska Highway at Delta Junction, ALASKA - September 1986
Delta Junction, Alaska -- Historical Mile 1422 -- is officially the end of the Alaska Highway. The asphalt continues on towards Fairbanks, Alaska, which as its own version of sign.
Sign at Fairbanks, Alaska - September 1986