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[edit] Cleanup requested

The map only shows the Canadian portion. It also looks like it extends into Alberta, which contradicts the article. -- Beland 04:04, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

The image has now been replaced by a more accurate one. -- kenb215 talk 19:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Verification required

How accurate is the information about the Canadian government repurchasing the rights to the highway? My cursory of the facts dictates otherwise.Nathans 05:08, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I have surveyed several websites listing the highway's history, and no sale was ever mentioned. I am removing it.--Nathans 09:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Ken S. Coates and William R. Morrison (1988). Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon. Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton. ISBN, which is the standard scholarly history of the Yukon, states:

"The federal government eventually paid $123,500,000 to the United States for permanent installations along the Alaska Highway and the staging route".

So I have put the more accurate mention back in. Luigizanasi 15:02, 1 June 2006 (UTC.)

I agree with Nathan above that there was no sale of the Alaska Highway by the U.S. to Canada. Construction of the highway, which by one estimate cost upwards of $500 million, was officially transferred to Canada in 1946. (Bob Beattie, director of northern research for the Bank of Canada, P. 89, The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium, Kenneth Coates, ed.,University of British Columbia Press,1985).

The $123,500,000 figure attributed to Kenneth Coates was, as indicated, in payment for "permanent installations" along the staging routes and the highway. (Ibid, Curtis R. Nordman,The Army of Occupation: Malcolm MacDonald and U.S. Military Involvement in the Canadian Northwest;P. 92

"This figure represents total Canadian expenditures for U.S. Defence Projects in the north and can be broken down as follows: $76,800,000 paid in 1944 for permanent installations along the northeast and northwest staging routes and the Alaska Highway; an additional $12,000,000 paid in 1946 for facilities along the staging routes and the Alaska Highway; and $34,700,000 in Canadian expenditures that were to have been reimbursed, but which were written off by Canada;" Ibid, Shelagh Grant,"Canada Rediscovers Her North,," (Trent University, unpublished paper,1979).P. 93.

These permanent installations and facilities consisted of items such as "civil aviation facilities for peacetime use in this country." Ibid: McKenzie King, Canada prime minister, P. 92.; also, telegraph stations, maintenance facilities, etc.Jlar555 20:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

good writing, but who is author i cannot find it