Photo from Trip Advisor post
The small Canadian town of Dawson Creek is home to several museums, including the Railway Station Museum and the Walter Wright Pioneer Museum. Because the town is considered the southern terminus of the ALCAN, or the Alaska – Canadian Highway, it’s also home to the Alaska Highway House, a small museum that chronicles the building of the highway. Inside the museum, is a jeep that participated in the building of the famous road.
EWillys has several photos and posts about the building of the highway, including this 1944 article by Herbert Lanks about a jeep trip up the new highway.
You may enjoy this humorous introduction to the museum (that includes the jeep):
Here are some still photos of the jeep:
I can’t wait to see this sign some day:
Photo from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Highway
Then let’s pick a date and go already!
If that’s the original jeep displayed, then the windshield was replaced at some point. It’s a CJ2A windshield!
At closer look, I missed the fact that the whole body except grill is not WWII!
I agree Craig. . . . And yesterday I just had a comment-conversation about the inaccuracy of jeeps in museums! I got too busy assembling this post and forgot to check out the jeep more closely.
Craig is right. A CJ with add-ons on right side, tool box ect. To the museums credit ,they did create an excellent diorama.
Hello, I am contacting to inquire about the compilations of a pictures of al-can hi-way construction at start of WW11. I have a swede bound album of kodak snapshots my uncle took when sent up while serving in the army in 1941. He spent about 2 winters plus seasons between in a division there, had latter developed film with about 100 snapshots of aprox. 2x2w inch size. My uncle passed away in 2016 at about 100 years old, and i was trying to see if there was a place that would be interested in the photo album. Thanks, Stuart Nelson
Hi Stuart,
It sounds like you have a really neat collection of photos! I would have suggested contacting the Alaska Highway House in Dawson Creek, but it is temporarily closed (maybe as a result of the pandemic?).
Another potential resource is the https://macbridemuseum.com in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. We visited this museum in 2017 and it has an exhibit devoted to the highway (you can see some pics here http://www.ewillys.com/2017/08/09/tuesday-august-8th-naps-teslin-refugees/). I would imagine that the Macbride museum would be interested in what you have.
If you have other questions, feel free to contact me directly at d@deilers.com.
Thanks,
– Dave
David Eilers
http://www.ewillys.com