DCHP-3

Northwest Staging Route

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a series of airports established between Edmonton and Whitehorse during World War II.

Quotations

1944
. . . the Government . . . developed and improved this particular route to Yukon by the building of a line of airports at Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Watson Lake and Whitehorse, and so the present airway known as the Northwest Staging Route came into being.
1958
With the quiet switch of the last airports of the wartime Northwest Staging Route. . . .