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	Northwest Staging Route - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Northwest Staging Route was a series of airstrips, airports and radio ranging stations built in British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska during World War II.
		The route of the Alaska Highway, which was built to provide a land route to Alaska, basically connected the airfields together.
		The route was used to ferry aircraft, notably the Bell P-39 Airacobra to Siberia in the Soviet Union as part of the Lend-Lease program.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northwest_Staging_Route (155 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Choosing a route through the Wilderness: The first issue to be dealt with in building the ALCAN was the choice of where to carve the road through the dense wilderness.
		The only problem was that this route failed to follow the airbases of the Northwest Staging Route and was also dangerously close to the coast.
		Route B was favored by the Canadian government.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st/~kalenius2/html/_alaska4.htm (717 words)

	Alaska Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The needs of war dictated the final route, intended to link the airfields of the Northwest Staging Route that conveyed lend-lease aircraft from the United States to the Soviet Union.
		In particular, some 100 miles of route between Burwash Landing and Koidern, Yukon, became virtually impassable in May and June of 1943, as the permafrost melted, no longer protected by a layer of delicate vegetation.
		A corduroy road was built to restore the route, and corduroy still underlays old sections of highway in the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alaska_highway (1485 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ALCAN’s Affect on the Northwest Canada's Natives, Economy and Environment: Following the occupation of Northwest Canada by the Army Corps of Engineers, a variety of epidemic struck the native population and decimated many of their rural settlements.
		Northwest Staging Route and ALSIB: The pre-existing airfield on the Norwest Staging route were used as bases to fly Lend Lease planes to the Russians via Ladd Field in Fairbanks.
		Thus the route from the factory to Fairbanks was safe and flexible, unlike the flight across the Bering Strait, Siberia, and into combat on the Eastern Front.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st/~kalenius2/html/_alaska5.htm (848 words)

	Alaska Highway: The Biggest and Hardest Job Since the Panama Canal
		Route A ran east of British Columbia's Coastal Mountains, while Route B paralleled British Columbia's section of the Rocky Mountains.
		Route A's coastal track would make it the most vulnerable to Japanese attack, while Route B would be susceptible to snow and floods.
		Route D promised access to oil fields at Norman Wells in the Northwest Territories (a plus, considering the wartime need for fuel), but it was the longest alternative.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ah/blalaskahighway (1100 words)

	Chapter XV: The United States and Canada: Elements of Wartime Collaboration
		The Canadian highway commission favored a route farther to the east, through the Rocky Mountain trench; the prairie sections of Canada and the United States favored a third route, east of the Rockies; and the well-known explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson advocated still another, by way of the Peace and Mackenzie Rivers.
		As a result of the Japanese attack on the Aleutians in June 1942, traffic along the Northwest Staging Route increased suddenly and enormously, while at the same time plans were in the making to use the route for ferrying planes to the Soviet Union.
		Whether that purpose was essential to the defense of the continent is another question, one that should not obscure the fact that the highway and the staging route amply fulfilled their principal role.
	www.army.mil /cmh/books/wwii/Framework/ch15.htm (6383 words)

	Alaska Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A proposed coastal route from Hazelton in British Columbia was deemed too susceptible to enemy attack (it's since been built as the Cassiar Hwy), while an inland route bypassing Whitehorse and following the Rockies would have taken five years to build.
		Another often overlooked fact is the road's effect on aboriginal peoples on the route, scores of whom died from epidemics brought in by the workers.
		Wildlife en route was also devastated by trigger-happy GIs taking recreational pot shots as they worked: the virtual eradication of several species was part of the reason for the creation of the Kluane Game Sanctuary, the forerunner of the Yukon's Kluane National Park.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /north_america/canada/about_destin/britishcolumbia/alaskahighway.html (1982 words)

	Northwest Staging Route (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Northwest Staging Route, an air route from Edmonton, over northwestern Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska, was planned before WWII by Canada, developed and built by Canada and the US between 1940-44.
		Costing about $75 million, it was usable in daylight by 1941, proving invaluable for the support of defence projects in the northwest and for delivering aircraft to Alaska and to the Soviet Union.
		About 450 aircraft per month traversed the route in 1943.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0005817 (103 words)

	Trip Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since all of the pilots planning this trip, originate from all parts of the Lower 48, as well as, Canada and Mexico, plans are to assemble in Caldwell, Idaho prior to departing as a group to the North country.
		Both of these facilities are readily available all along the planned route, without having to be separated as a group.
		Since no fixed time can be established for such a venture, those taking the trip have been advised that they better plan on a three to four week duration for the entire flight, especially those who live in the eastern section of the U.S. and in Mexico.
	www.sportflight.com /alaska/TripFact.htm (797 words)

	Yukon Territory - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Explorers looking for a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean probed the Yukon’s northern coast, while fur traders from the Hudson’s Bay Company learned the region’s inland waterways and mountain ranges.
		After the Dominion of Canada was formed in 1867, the Yukon was administered as part of the Northwest Territories.
		Also built were a series of airfields known as the Northwest Staging Route and an oil pipeline linking Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, with Whitehorse, as part of the Canol project.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761576299__1/Yukon_Territory.html (2487 words)

	American Experience \| The Alaska Highway \| Scouting the Route \| Fort Nelson, British Columbia \| PBS
		The highway goes through Fort Nelson because the Canadian government had planned to put an airport in there to be a part of the Northwest Staging Route.
		There was no road to get supplies, equipment, and personnel to the airports of the Northwest Staging Route -- which is one reason the highway was deemed vital to the continent's defense.
		I was attacked by mosquitoes at Fort Nelson and the bites took at least a month to heal.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/alaska/sfeature/sf_route_04.html (193 words)

	RBC Financial Group - RBC Letter
		Including only what is officially designated the Northwest, there are 1,500,000 square miles with a population of 17,000, of whom 5,000 persons inhabit the quarter—million square miles of the Yukon.
		But Leningrad is an ancient city, whereas Canada's Northwest is the most recently explored part of this continent, and is just on the threshold of development.
		Today there is the Northwest Staging Route, the Alaska Skyway, over which men and freight are carried from airport to airport through the wilderness from Edmonton to Alaska.
	www.rbc.com /community/letter/august1944.html (3450 words)

	History of Meteorological Services in Canada
		About this time an improved method of providing forecasts to the public was introduced by which the latest forecasts were delivered to the telephone exchanges in a large number of towns in Ontario so that subscribers on rural lines could obtain them by calling their local exchange.
		Early in 1942 meteorologists were posted to a few stations on the route and forecast centres were opened at Edmonton and Whitehorse to provide services for the RCAF and for civilian aviation companies providing military transport.
		In conjunction with the operation of the Staging Route it was decided in 1942 to build a pipe line from the Norman Wells, N.W.T. oil fields to a Whitehorse, Y.T. refinery in order to guarantee Alaska sufficient fuel for military and civilian purposes.
	www.cmos.ca /wxsvchistory.html (11756 words)

	Northern Rockies Regional District
		Fort Nelson was established as a trading post in 1805 by the Northwest Fur Trading Company, and was named for Lord Horatio Nelson, the English Admiral who won the Battle of Trafalgar.
		Floods, fire, clashes between the trading post personnel and the local Aboriginal population, and the demands of the fur trade account for all these moves, with the community finally settling at this spot with the coming of the highway.
		The biggest factor in Fort Nelson’s growth was, of course, the establishment of an airport as part of the World War II Northwest Air Staging Route in 1941, and the construction of the Alaska Highway that followed in 1942.
	www.northernrockies.org /community/history.html (153 words)

	Dispatch Archive
		The final stage of the more than 2,200 mile air journey, from Whitehorse to Ladd Field, near Fairbanks, Alaska, was often the worst, combining bad weather and rugged, unforgiving terrain.
		The author had the chance to fly this route in the 1970s in a light plane, and can personally attest to the adventure involved in such a flight, even in the summer.
		Records indicate that 8,058 of 14,798 Lend-Lease aircraft provided to Russia traveled the ALSID air route, and despite its hardships, only 133 were lost, the lowest percentage of all the routes.
	rwebs.net /dispatch/output.asp?ArticleID=56 (2023 words)

	Alcan Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The general route of the highway was along a line of existing airfields from Edmonton AB, to Fairbanks, Alaska.
		This chain of airfields was known as the Northwest Staging Route and was used to ferry more than 8,000 war planes from Great Falls, Montana to Ladd Air Base in Fairbanks.
		Gas, food, and lodging are found along the route every 20 to 50 miles.
	www.esu11.k12.ne.us /projects/alaska/alcan.html (562 words)

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		This route was discarded because of its vulnerability to air attacks from Japanese carrier-based planes.
		The many small glaciers along the route were a major cause for the difficulty in building the highway.
		The length of the Alaska Highway has reduced over the years from over 1600 miles in the early days to the 1520 now used on the milepost at Fairbanks; however, the actual mileage is about 1488 due to the major improvements and cutoffs developed during the half-century since we broke the original trail.
	www.boultonmiller.com /Handonsh3.htm (7753 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition the route is periodically marked with "historical mile" markers.
		Along the Alaska Highway were a sequence of airports known as the Northwest Staging Route.
		Among the reasons for the routing of the Alaska Highway were to go along with the northwest staging route.
	www.mvermeulen.com /canada/yukon.html (2907 words)

	CHAPTER VI
		The highway and the staging route were tremendous engineering achievements which fulfilled the major purposes for which they were constructed.
		But the need for oil on the staging route and the highway brought the idea to life, and in an exchange of notes in June 1942, Canada agreed to let the United States proceed with the project.
		A route was established using Greenland and Iceland as intermediate stops, and in late 1941, the Canadians began construction of an additional base at Goose Bay, Labrador.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/civilaffairs/chapter6.htm (17302 words)

	Fortnightly Club of Redlands
		He announced he was not there to talk about Yukon Southern's routes or business, or the interest of the U. and Canadian governments in the inland route through the Yukon to Alaska for commercial and military traffic.
		The route to Amsterdam was plotted over the North Pole from Vancouver and I 000 ‘les shorter than the customary flights to Europe from Montreal.
		He applied for permission to fly domestic routes across Canada competing with Trans Canada and expected the hearing would only be pro forma in obtaining a favorable decision.
	www.redlandsfortnightly.org /papers/bushjet.htm (8365 words)

	Hello North - Alaska Highway History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The general route of the highway was along a line of existing trails and airfields from Edmonton, Alberta to Fairbanks, Alaska.
		This chain of airfields was known as the Northwest Staging Route.
		Today the Alaska Highway is a scenic route that is completely paved and is open year round.
	new.hellonorth.com /info/7/36 (433 words)

	Alaska Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The military documented and photographed each stage, the civilians working on the road had the money to add their collection of photos to the pile.
		These authors offers interpretations to what influenced the choice of routes, the political issues and the economic realities, with an insight into events that had a major impact on the area from the perspective of fifty years later.
		Canada's Northwest, seems always to have beckoned to the adventurous spirit of Americans, and American settlers help to open the country for settlement.
	www.fsj.nlc.bc.ca /nlc/~kathy/alashwy.html (1920 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Our exact planned route of travel has not been established as of this writing, but will be defined later as the list of pilots is firmed up.
		Since all of the eight pilots currently planning this trip originate from all parts of the Lower 48, as well as Canada, plans are to select a route through the New England states enroute to Canada (New Brunswick as point of entry), that would pass closely as practical to the home bases of those pilots.
		During the Alaska trip last June, our route of travel was the well-established Northwest Staging Route that included the Alaska Highway.
	www.sportflight.com /canada/introduction.htm (727 words)

	Documents on Canadian External Relations (DCER)
		(b) noted that before any major changes were undertaken regarding the operation and control of the Northwest Staging route or Coral Harbour, the R.C.A.F. would consult with the U.S.A.F. in the former and the Department of Transport in the latter case.
		That at Frobisher is to be taken over on September 1, 1950 and will continue to serve as a main staging point between Goose Bay and Resolute Bay until such time as other arrangements are made for the re‑supply of the far northern weather stations.
		The Northwest Territories Administration were of the opinion that in the interests of Canadian sovereignty, a token visit to Resolute Bay should be included in the proposed itinerary.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /department/history/dcer/details-en.asp?intRefid=9494 (1551 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Alcan Highway (1942-1943) - June 18th, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The primary purpose of the highway was the defense and resupply of the "Alaska Skyway," a string of WWII airfields.
		One of the original BSA motorcycles ridden over the proposed Highway route between Fairbanks and Seattle in 1939 to prove that it was a viable passage to the North It took two men seven months to complete the 2,000 mile trip.
		Conventional odds were against him in Europe since England’s strength was in her navy, with only a small professional army trained for colonial skirmishing, one hardly equipped to face modern continental forces that were blessed by superior technology and bolstered by a vast levée en masse.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1155702/posts (10610 words)

	Alaska.com \| Other cities & towns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The development and settlement of Northway was due to construction of the airport during World War II.
		The Northway airport was a link in the Northwest Staging Route, a cooperative project between the U.S. and Canada.
		A chain of air bases through Canada to Fairbanks were used to supply an Alaska defense during World War II, and during the construction of the Alcan Highway.
	www.alaska.com /places/cities/other_cities/story/4565654p-4889945c.html (1427 words)

	Train Scan June 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The aim of the demonstration where a locomotive struck an old car on the tracks was to show students and members of the general public the consequences of disregarding flashing crossing signals at level crossings.
		The Northwest Staging Route, a network of airfields from northern Alberta to Fairbanks AK was set up in 1941 to provide a means of transporting aircraft and supplies to Alaska.
		It was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and the threat of a follow-on Japanese occupation of Alaska that finally triggered the construction of the Alaska Highway.
	www.trainscan.com /news/scan/s0306 (7052 words)

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