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	Dempster Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dempster Highway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway that connects the Klondike Highway in the Yukon Territory of Canada to Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta.
		During the winter months, the highway extends another 194 kilometres to Tuktoyaktuk, on the northern coast of Canada, using frozen portions of the Mackenzie River delta as an ice road.
		It was unveiled as a two-lane, gravel-surfaced, all-weather highway that ran 671 kilometres (417 miles) from the Klondike Highway near Dawson City to Fort McPherson and Arctic Red River in the Northwest Territories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dempster_Highway (776 words)

	The Dempster Highway - ExploreNorth
		The Dempster Highway is one of northern Canada's undiscovered, yet readily accessible wonders.
		During approximately May and November the Dempster is closed - here are the historical opening and closing dates of the ferries and ice crossings.
		Dempster Highway stamp issued by Canada Post in in 1998 as part of a series showing highways across the country.
	www.explorenorth.com /articles/dempster.html (710 words)

	The Dempster Highway - John Feiereisen, Summer 1993
		Cassiar Highway (37), turned left at the Meziadin Cutoff, rode past the Bear Glacier and on into Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK.
		Dempster Junction where we filled up the bikes, filled our spare gas cans, and started up the Dempster Highway (5), a 460-mile, dead-end gravel road.
		We got on our bikes and rode to the absolute end of the Dempster Highway, which turned out to be just a couple miles north of town where the road became someone's driveway.
	www.geocities.com /feierejm/Dempster.htm (8476 words)

	Dempster Highway
		The Dempster opening would have been the fulfillment of Diefenbaker’s ‘vision of the North’.
		No story about the Dempster Highway would be complete without acknowledging Harry Waldron, the eccentric, self-proclaimed ‘Keeper of the Arctic Circle’.
		He was an ex-highway worker in his late 60s when he took to sitting in a rocking chair at the side of the Dempster.
	www.yukoninfo.com /dempster/ddayindawsoncity.htm (321 words)

	Government of Yukon, Department of Highway and Public Works - Transportation - Road Report
		Highway 2, the South Klondike Highway, motorists will encounter reduced visibility in high winds and blowing snow from Log Cabin (km 44) over the summit.
		Highway 6, the Canol Road, is no longer maintained for the season.
		Highway 9, the Top of the World Highway, is open to km 4.
	www.gov.yk.ca /roadreport (388 words)

	Yukon's Trans-Canada Highway Route
		There is three major highways, the Alaska Highway in the south, the Klondike highway through the centre of the territory, and the Dempster Highway (unpaved) connecting to Inuvik NWT.
		The highway is mostly paved in Canada and all paved in Alaska.
		The Dempster Highway starts near Dawson City and runs for 733 km (456 miles) to Inuvik, and is paved only in the beginning.
	www.transcanadahighway.com /Yukon (587 words)

	www.PaulDotTrip.com
		The Dempster highway is one of the most remote in the world.
		The Dempster is a year-round 769km gravel road that connects Dawson City, Yukon to Inuvik, Northwest Territories.
		Paul, Bert, and Poppy (the van) at the artic circle marker on the Dempster highway in the north Yukon.
	www.pauldottrip.com /dempster_inuvik/index.htm (620 words)

	Dempster Highway- Tourism and Parks, ITI, GNWT, Canada
		The Dempster Highway, stretching from Dawson City to Inuvik, offers some of the most beautiful wilderness scenery in the world and a rare opportunity to drive north of the Arctic Circle.
		The highway passes through two mountain ranges and crosses the Arctic Circle and the continental divide on its way to the Beaufort Sea.
		Winter travel is sometimes interrupted by storms, but on a clear night, February through April, the northern lights, aurora borealis, are at their best.
	www.iti.gov.nt.ca /parks/highway_routes/dempster.htm (165 words)

	Photography of Terry Danks-Canol Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Dempster Highway was conceived as a "road to resources" and initial construction carried out during the Diefenbaker years of the late fifties.
		This is the Dempster pictured here, photographed in the late sixties and early seventies..
		I camped on the Dempster during the winter on a couple of occasions.
	danks.netfirms.com /dempster.htm (236 words)

	Dempster Highway
		The Dempster Highway is 450 miles of gravel road connecting the Klondike Highway to the Arctic regions of the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
		This highway sign indicates I'm approaching the Dempster Highway (Yukon route 5), which travels north to the Arctic town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories.
		Heavy rains came the next morning, making the Dempster Highway too dangerous to drive, so I hung out at the lodge until around midday when conditions were better.
	www.davidsimmons.com /pers/travel/arctic/04_dempster (385 words)

	Daring the Dempster
		The Dempster starts gently with a short paved stretch but the sign “No Services Next 370 km” is a sobering reminder of the road’s isolation.
		The farther north the Dempster goes, the smaller the plants become; a 100 year-old conifer might stand less than a metre tall.
		It was founded in 1955 as a government administrative centre, and official signs in five languages reflect the cultural mosaic of the town’s 3500 inhabitants.
	www.travellady.com /Issues/February04/DaringtheDempster.htm (1193 words)

	Dempster Highway NWT, Canadian historical road, road trip canada Arctic Circle tour Dempster Highway family holiday ...
		The Dempster Highway is the most northerly public highway in Canada taking you 734 kilometers from the gold fields of Dawson City to the Arctic Ocean.
		The Dempster Highway is the only public highway in the Western Hemisphere that actually allows you to cross the Arctic Circle in a car.
		The Arctic Circle marker on the Dempster Highway
	www.peelriverinn.com /dempster-highway.htm (225 words)

	Dempster Highway (Yukon-NWT) Road Log & Photo Album - ExploreNorth
		Seldom have I been in a position to get any photographs, but in July 2003 (at 06:45) I saw this moose swimming across aptly-named Two Moose Lake well in advance, and was able to get her swimming and then meet her as she crossed the road.
		A broad view of the subarctic country through which the Dempster Highway passes, taken from a side road leading to a communications tower.
		Each year the highway closes during the periods when the river is freezing and when the ice is breaking up.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/roads/dempster-photos.html (1253 words)

	Dempster 25th Anniversary
		The road was billed as the first-ever overland supply link to southern Canada, where business and political circles buzzed with talk of an oil pipeline that would run parallel to the road.
		All eyes turned to the Yukon on Aug. 17th, 1959, when Ottawa announced that oil had been discovered in the territory’s Eagle Plain.
		The sounds of bulldozers filled the air as construction began at Dawson City in January of 1959.
	www.yukoninfo.com /dempster (342 words)

	Dempster Highway - Town of Inuvik
		It is the only gravel highway connecting Inuvik to Whitehorse, Yukon some 1253 km away.
		The highway is open approximately June 10 to October 14 in the summer, and December 15 to April 30 in the winter.
		The highway closes for approximately 6 to 8 weeks in the fall when the Peel and Mackeznie Rivers freeze and again in the spring when they thaw.
	www.inuvik.ca /tourism/dempsterhighway.html (209 words)

	DFA: Inspector W.J.D. Dempster RCMP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Promoted to Sergeant for this feat, Jack Dempster was to cross and recross the trail that has now become the Dempster Highway during his remaining years of service before retiring to British Columbia in 1934.
		The road which bears his name was the first all-weather road to cross the Arctic Circle and was originally to be called the Aklavik Highway till a campaign to commemorate Jack Dempster and his feat of endurance was launched in the early 1960s by the "Yukon Order of Pioneers".
		The highway was named after him in September 1963, and was officially opened in 1979 with the unveiling of a memorial plaque by his children, Professor Hugh Dempster and Mrs Sheila Calvert.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~jdempster/Highway.html (319 words)

	360Geographics: Yukon: Northern Yukon: Dempster Highway
		Dempster Highway, 7km south of Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory
		Crossing the Arctic Circle on the Dempster Highway, Yukon Territory
		Border between the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories on the Dempster Highway
	www.360geographics.com /West/Yukon/NorthernYukon/DempsterHighway.html (75 words)

	arctic circle, dempster highway, northern lights tour in yukon, canada
		Dempster Highway, the only public road to cross the Arctic Circle in Canada.
		The highway follows the North Klondike Valley, flanked on either side by high mountains.
		The highway winds back and forth along a ridge that provides a spectacular view of the Ogilvies.
	www.canadianexpeditions.com /arctic-circle-dempster-highway.php (895 words)

	InfoHub - The Dempster Highway
		The Dempster Highway is located in the Yukon Territory.
		There was a highway maintenance camp at km 65 where the road wound its way around a bend to the north.
		Chapman Lake had been the original terminus of the highway until it was completed in 1979.
	www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=2700 (4471 words)

	Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op: Indicators -- Dempster Highway Traffic, Yukon
		There is similar information available for the northern portion of the Dempster Hwy in the Northwest Territories.
		The Dempster Highway provides the only road link from southern Canada to communities in the Mackenzie River delta such as Fort McPherson and Inuvik.
		The Dempster Highway travels across the northern Yukon and through many different wildlife habitats.
	www.taiga.net /coop/indics/dempyt.html (264 words)

	Dempster Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Dempster Highway connects the town of Inuvik, near the Arctic Ocean in the Northwest Territories, to the rest of the Canadian highway system.
		The are many places along the Dempster highway where you have spectacular views over huge distances.
		The highway more than makes up for its roughness with wonderful scenery as you travel through several geographic zones from mountains to tundra.
	www.suresoft.ca /Gallery_6/dempster1.html (286 words)

	Dempster Highway Presentation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This year marks the 25th anniversary of the construction of the Dempster Highway.
		To honour those who were involved in the construction and planning of the highway the library has put together a presentation that will illuminate many interesting facts about the highway and its birth.
		This presentation should be seen by anyone wishing to learn a little more about the history and legend that is the Dempster Highway.
	www.inuvik.net /icl/events_progs/dempster_highway.html (92 words)

	Dempster Highway Road Conditions
		The Dempster is gravel in its entire length with the exception of the last 10 km in the town of Inuvik and the first 20 km from the Dawson turn off.
		There is the passing of other vehicles both coming and going, The nature of the gravel in any particular location and how different weather conditions will effect road conditions.The speed limit posted for the Dempster highway is 80 km/h.
		You have to be attentive while traveling the Dempster, this is not the road to wool gather.
	www3.sympatico.ca /billh56/road.htm (1138 words)

	Yukon highways, Yukon Highway 5
		The Dempster Highway, (Yukon Route 5/Northwest Territories Route 8), completed in 1979, is a well maintained gravel and crushed stone road which extends 742 km/461 miles to Inuvik (Place of Man) an Inuit village 325 km/201 miles above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories.
		Check in Dawson City, or at the Klondike River Lodge (at junction of Klondike and Dempster Highways) for road conditions before beginning your trip.
		Distances are in kilometres from the junction of the Dempster Highway with the Klondike Highway 37 km south of Dawson City.
	www.bellsalaska.com /myalaska/ykhwy5.html (993 words)

	Dempster Highway Compact - Nature Tours of Yukon
		Later, we'll continue straight north on the famous Dempster Highway, crossing the Arctic Circle as we head to Inuvik.
		We'll leave the last trappings of civilization behind (we are well equipped) and head north on the Dempster Highway.
		In 1979, the Canadian government built this 800 km (500 miles) gravel highway to open up the oil and gas riches in the Mackenzie Delta.
	www.naturetoursyukon.com /chilkoottrailcanoetrips/dempsterhotel (1462 words)

	Trans-Canada Highway Trip & Vacation PlannerTrans-Canada Highway Trip & Vacation Planner
		Here is an overview of the highway, a detailed travel itinerary, and trip planning suggestions.
		Weather conditions, with "normals" and forecasts along the highway as well as road conditions
		Information about geography, flora & forests, fauna & wildlife, and agriculture (both plants & animals) that you may see in between the cities & towns along the way.
	www.transcanadahighway.com (168 words)

	Dempster Highway -- Northern Yukon - The Great American RoadTrip Forum
		Highway from the Northern Yukon through the Northwest Territories
		If you search on "Dempster Highway" you get lots of stories.
		I went to Alaska in 1999 pulling my Aliner and stopped at the entrance to the Dempster and stayed the night there.
	www.roadtripamerica.com /forum/showthread.php?t=5786 (211 words)

	No I've Never Been To Spain, But I've Been To Tuktoyaktuk \| Paul William Berg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		At Dempster's Corner we got gas and ate burgers and met a couple who worked at the lodge there but lived in Inuvik (inn-oo-vick).
		The gravel is very sharp and interlocking and is designed to freeze together into a hard surface and not sink into the permafrost, and doing 60 MPH is easy on it.
		This was a much smaller highway and we saw lots of Caribou and a few moose.
	www.paulwberg.com /tuktoyaktuk (5485 words)

	Dempster Highway Guided Hiking Tour, Whitehorse Camping Vacation
		A highlight is the drive into the Bonanza and Eldorado Creeks where we visit an active gold mine.
		We are leaving the fields of the Klondike today and will set up camp near the world famous Dempster Highway.
		Via Alaska Highway we cross the Alaska Border in Beaver Creek.
	www.westcanadatours.com /van_tours/van_info2.html (762 words)

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