Building the ALCAN (Alaska) Highway 

You are very welcome, we were excited to find the footage and get it digitized to share.

almost slid into the frozen lake at 3am one year

It would be way faster and easier today

Amen brother. So true. Sad really.

yes, I agree with you. the Kinder-Morgan pipeline is a perfect example or the repair work to the Coquihalla flood areas of what you speak of. this country still has no 4-lane coast-to-coast limited access highway yet either. speaking from Saskatchewan, BTW.

No FN Unions back them dogging it!

Ulland Brothers contract was $537,000.00

Sorry, we don't actually have much knowledge of the project readily available. This footage was found and digitized as part of our deep dive into the company history for our 100 year anniversary this year.

Bing bong

I could help a little bit with that. When I drove to Alaska in the early 70's I was in one rut for a hundred miles... Avoid that one. A steel basket over the windshield is a good idea to keep the baseball sized rocks coming at ya from piling up on your lap. Wolverines may try to stop you during your approach but you will win the battle lest your radiator gets punctured. Before you let the dog out of the vehicle check for sow bears with cubs in the vicinity. I hope you have an enjoyable trip as did I. The guiding camp cook job fell through cuz Ernie had a transmission fall on him. The 160 acre homestead tracts we were after became unavailable because the Alaska Pipeline went through and so job corps trained me up to go operate equipment for a few years. Land got too expensive real quick so I bought 40 acres in Idaho on a mountain for $11,000 cash. Here I sit homebound with 5-6' of snow fallen this season and the 2 1/2 mile long road is closed, possibly till spring. Doing great and enjoyed the video and memories of my travels. Thanks

They didn't give them much equipment but those guys did it