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Canol Blitz
Story of the $138,000,000 project which is lining Canada s Main street to Asia with airfields, oil wells, highways and pipe lines August 15 1943 RICHARD FINNIE
Canol Blitz
Story of the $138,000,000 project which is lining Canada s Main street to Asia with airfields, oil wells, highways and pipe lines
RICHARD FINNIE
Editor’s Note: The “Canol Project’’ described by Mr. Finnie is one of the most notable construction operations in Canadian history. It involves the opening up of an oil field on the Mackenzie River only 75 miles south of the Arctic circle, construction by the U. S. Army of l,6OO miles of oil pipe lines traversing subarctic wastes, intensive development of a 1 ,200-mile lake-and-river transport system, building of a refinery and many hundreds of miles of new highways, and construction of new key air routes through the Canadian northwest. .4 Washington report stales the project wiV cost ¿138,000,000.
Posted: Jul 16, 2021 4:35 PM CT | Last Updated: July 16
Hundreds of people from across the territory descended on Tulita, N.W.T., to mark 100 years of Treaty 11. It means a lot because with COVID, people haven t been able to come together for a while, said one volunteer. (Anna Desmarais/CBC)
Hundreds of people from across the territory descended on Tulita, N.W.T., to mark 100 years of Treaty 11 on Thursday.
The community of approximately 500 people hasn t had a gathering of this size in a long time, according to Shayla Kunkel, 18, one of the volunteers at Treaty Day.
It s fitting, she said, because Tulita signifies where the two rivers meet.