Alcan Highway

/ ˈælkæn /

noun

1. original name of the Alaska Highway

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The highway was originally called the Alcan Highway, but it’s now known as the Alaska Highway.

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We drove all the way up to Alaska, went up the then-unpaved Alcan Highway, and we took odd jobs…My first job was to gut the salmon….I noticed that some of them didn’t look really healthy to me.

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The southern terminal of the Alcan highway.

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The Alcan application, which proposes laying a pipeline alongside the Alcan highway, was dismissed by Litt as inefficient.

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No, the Alcan Highway was not open this summer.

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