by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical, Photo
In his sixth aviation history book, author Bruce McAllister takes the reader on a photographic journey, tracing the development of aviation in the Yukon Territory. There are chapters on the very first aircraft to operate in the Yukon, how aviation linked communities,...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
Combine all of the guts and glory of war, the lure of some of the harshest yet most beautiful land on the planet and a colossal construction project that makes the Pyramids look like Lego play.
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
Anyone who travels the Alaska Highway today for the first time would be hard put to imagine the hardships associated with the building of the road. This book examines all aspects of this incredible construction as a major supply and defense route in WW II....
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
Chester Russell tells the amazing story of how he—and 14,000 other soldiers just like him—ended up working under god-awful conditions in the wilds of western Canada and Alaska to build the Alaska Highway and the CANOL project during the early years of WW II....
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
Martha was an independent 32-year old when she headed for the Klondike in 1898. She endured the grueling Chilkoot Trail, traveled by boat down the Yukon River, and worked placer gold claims while living in a crude log cabin. She went on to become a successful...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
In 1907, Laura Beatrice Berton, a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher, left her comfortable life in Toronto to teach in a Yukon mining town. She fell in love with the North – and with a northerner-and made Dawson City her home for the next 25 years. I Married the...
