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Brush cutting for Alaska Highway in 1942 remembers Norman List Haeghe
Norman List Haeghe, eighteen, took a job as a truck driver but cut brush on Taylor Hill for the Alaska Highway, a project to link Dawson Creek to Fairbanks in eight months. He recalls heat and mosquitoes, two ferries over the Peace River, and a tragic dynamite fire in Dawson Creek in 1943. He later worked as a fireman, noted 365 miles of freight cars north in 1942-43, and spent 21 years with BC Rail.
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Norman Listhaeghe
Amel Anderson
Norman
Taylor Hill
Peace River
Alaska
Dawson Creek
Fairbanks
United States Army
Ontario
Ponce Coupe
Alaska Highway
BC Rail
PGE
Chetwynd
Gladys