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Publishing date: Aug 02, 2021 • 13 hours ago • 6 minute read • • IMG 2672 – Unveiling of Mackenzie Cairn, across Peace River from Fort Fork site, 1929. People arrived at River Lot 19 for the ceremony via various means – sternwheeler D.A. Thomas, car, and perhaps, horse and buggy. Sir Alexander Mackenzie overwintered 1792-93 at the fort on his quest of the Pacific Ocean. Among those attending: (L-R) Hugh Allen; D.M. Kennedy; Kinwell (Joe) Neff (later owner of Fort Fork site land); Frank Smith and James Homer Johnston (discoverer, in 1927, of the fort site). The photograph – a photograph of a photograph from Peace River Remembers, Page 74. Photo by SUPPLIED
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.
Next Stop, Hong Kong
A cargo of painted crows put Grant McConachie into the air transport business. Now he is putting Pacific into Canadian Pacific Airlines June 1 1949 FRANK HAMILTON
Next Stop, Hong Kong
FRANK HAMILTON
THIS SUMMER at Vancouver’s International Airport an ex-bush pilot named Grant McConachie will launch the most ambitious project in the history of Canadian commercial aviation. As president of Canadian Pacific Airlines he will inaugurate Canada’s first trans-Pacific plane services which will bring New Zealand, Australia and the Orient closer to North America than ever before.
The air traveler will he able to lunch in Vancouver one day and lunch in Hong Kong the next, covering 6,952 miles in 19 flying hours. He will get a seven-league-boot hop around the northern rim of the world, over a quarter of the globe’s most forbidding terrain.
Weekly Ponderings: People brought character and culture to Peace River - Part 49
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