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...four-fifths in Canada. But the Canadian North is no longer a land fit only for Indians, Eskimos and a few hardy white men. Lots of women like Mrs. Mackenzie, and lots of children have moved into the North in recent years. The schools in Whitehorse, in the Yukon, now have 364 children, equal to half the total population of the town...
...Yukon a far broader boom than the Klondike gold rush. The new road to Hay River in the Northwest Territories is an all-weather highway over which truckloads of fresh and frozen trout and whitefish from Great Slave Lake are driven , daily on their way to Chicago and New York, as part of a $2,500,000 fishing industry. Gold at Dawson and Yellowknife, uranium at Port Radium, base metals at Mayo have all built up thriving settlements. Great lead-zinc-silver deposits, lately found at Pine Point, less than 60 miles from the Hay River road, may bring...
...Even the new peak is expected to double after next June, when the connecting Hart Highway from the West Coast is completed. That will cut off a 900-mile detour and give traffic from as far south as San Diego, Calif, direct access to the Yukon and Alaska...
...Yukon oil fields...
...served with the prewar 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii in 1937 and as an instructor at the Air Corps Technical School; commanded a bomb group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a staff officer in the Pentagon; after the war, became commander of the Yukon sector, Alaskan Air Command, was back on staff duty with the Atomic Energy Commission when he was sent off to Japan and the prospect of another star...