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STONE, Raymond

1996-0227

Sound

1 of 1

1991

Raymond Stone (Interviewer)

Interview by Raymond Stone of Colonel Alex Stirton, former colonel in the Canadian Army responsible for media relations and communications in the Arctic and Yukon in the early 1940s. Stirton discusses many topics including: the development of the Alaska Highway in the early 1940s, the takeover of the highway in 1946 by Canada, the role of General Worthington, the monetary and physical impact of the highway on the community of Whitehorse, the White Pass and Yukon Railway, Operation Musk-Ox, the first traverse of the North in 1945 led by Doctor Baird, Frank Riddell of "Mad Trapper" fame, the problems with communications in the North created by the aurora, and CFWH, the military radio station in Whitehorse. <60mn>

English

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A1 2001-04-0008

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