Alaska Highway Roadshow

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The Alaska Highway Road Show, (AHRS) is a touring celebration marking the occasion of the famous route’s 75th anniversary.  The show launches in early July, 2017, at the Provincial Archives of Alberta as part of Edmonton’s Historic Festival. It will then head north, visiting 11 other communities and eventually wrap up in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Performances range from large city performance halls,  to small spaces in villages like Teslin and Lower Post

The AHRS celebrates the Trail of ’42 with three artists whose families have a long history in the north. Bill Dolan, Allison Tubman and Kathy Jessup weave together research, family stories, music, artifacts and photographs to present an entertaining look back on the route’s remarkable 75 year history. Raised as “highway kids,” they lend an authentic voice to this ninety-minute tribute concert. Audiences will gain an appreciation of why the Alaska Highway deserves to be Canada’s newest National Historic Site, and why truckers and all those who’ve called it home over the years, proudly share a special bond. The Trail of ’42 is a remarkable story, and as the Highway reaches its 75th birthday, this is the time to tell it!

​2017 TOUR DATES
ALBERTA
Smith  July 3, 7:00 pm PREVIEW performance -Smith Community Hall
Edmonton  July 5, 7:00 pm TOUR LAUNCH – Provincial Archives of Alberta (FREE)
Grand Prairie  July 6, 7:00 pm Grand Prairie Museum
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Dawson Creek  July 7, 7:00 pm Calvin Kruk Performing Arts Centre
Fort St. John  July 8, 7:30 pm North Peace Cultural Centre
Fort Nelson  July 9, 7:30 pm Phoenix Theatre
Toad River  July 16, 6:30 pm Toad River Community Hall
Lower Post  July 17, 12:30 pm **Matinee performance – Denetia School (FREE)
Muncho Lake  July 20, 8:00 pm Northern Rockies Lodge
YUKON TERRITORY
Watson Lake  July 17, 7:00 pm Watson Lake Community Hall
Teslin  July 18, 1:00 pm **Matinee performance -Tlingit Heritage Centre (FREE)
Whitehorse  July 19, 7:00 pm MacBride Museum of Yukon History

Info & Tickets

Fort St John Events

Cemetery Tour - Alaska Highway Edition

May 26th 2017  7:00pm
​July 7th 2017  7:00pm
Fort St John Cemetery-100 Ave
For Info Contact : Heather or Evelynne 
​​250-785-0430

​The Alaska Highway Roadshow 

July 8th 2017  7:00pm
​North Peace Cultural Centre 
For Info Contact : Heather or Evelynne ​
​250-785-0430

​"The Alcan Craze II"

Local playright Debra Butler brings back the flavour of 1942 along the Alaska Highway

Sept 29th & 30th 2017
Oct 5th, 6th, 7th 2017
7:00pm  - North Peace Cultural Centre
​​For Info Contact :  250-785-1992
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​Travel & Tourism Presentation

Travel and Tourism throughout the Alaska Highway History Presentation
Western Command Convoy
​Exhibit of Vehicles
July 21st 2017  9:00am
North Peace Musuem FSJ​
​For Info Contact : Heather or Evelynne ​
​250-785-0430

​Rudy Schubert's Alaska Highway Photos Exhibit 

Aug 20th to Nov 30th 2017
9:00am-5:00pm Mon-Sat
North Peace Musuem FSJ
​For Info Contact : Heather or Evelynne ​
​250-785-0430
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Pouce Coupe Events

Parade

75th Anniversary Alaska Highway Canada  Day Parade
July 1st 2017 11:00am
Village of Pouce Coupe
For Info Contact Sandy Stokes 
​250-786-5794

Dawson Creek Events

Book Reading with Author Lawrence Hill

The Alaska Highway Roadshow 

May 9th 2017 7:00pm
​Dawson Creek art Gallery
For Info  Contact: ​250-782-2601

​Trencher Unveiling 

August 11th 2017 - 4:00pm
NAR Park
For Info Contact: Donna Kane - ​[email protected]

July 7th 2017  7:00pm
​KPAC
For Info Contact: 250-782-9325

Fort Nelson Events

Book Reading with Author Lawrence Hill

May 11th, 2017 7:00pm
Phoenix Theatre
For Info Contact: ​250-774-2241

​75th Art Exhibit with Dawn Gullackson

75th CD Release with Live Performances

May 5th-7th 2017 - Times Vary
Fort Nelson Trade Show
For Info Contact: Fort Nelson Visitor Centre
​250-774-6400

Featuring works with historical content
May-Sept 2017 10:00am-7:00pm
Fort Nelson Museum.
For Info Contact: 250-774-3536​

HWY Views - Summit Runnit

June 11th 2017 - All Day
Summit Mountain
For Info Contact:
​ Fort Nelson Visitor Centre 250-774-6400

The Alaska Highway Roadshow

July 9th 2017 - 7:30pm
Phoenix Theatre
For Info Contact: ​250-774-2241

Whitehorse Events

The Alcan Highway Exhibition

Yukon Culinary Festival

Nov 01, 2016 - Nov 01, 2018
MacBride Museum 1124 Front Street
For Info Contact:
867-667-2709     [email protected]

Aug 11, 2017 - Aug 13, 2017
Whitehorse and surrounding area
For Info Contact:
867-668-3331   [email protected]

Alaska Events

Tok 75th Anniversary Parade

Tok, Alaska - July 4th 2017
Parade starts at 11am at Fast Eddy's parking lot.
Field events follow the parade immediately across from
​DOT where parade ends. 

Artifacts and Exhibitions

Dawson Creek - Alaska Highway House - permanent historical displays
Watson Lake - Sign Post Forest – Outdoor signpost display started by a homesick soldier  
Whitehorse - Yukon Transportation Museum -  artifacts from the highway era
Beaver Creek – The Border Town Museum and Garage.  A great, slightly eccentric display of Alaska Highway artifacts. Privately run by Sid Van Der Meer.
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​Throughout Yukon along the Alaska Highway you can find interpretive panels about the history, culture, flora and fauna of the Yukon. Many of them discuss the Alaska Highway. A listing of our interpretive rest stops is here: http://sightsandsites.ca/. Particularly, visitors will want to stop at the Canol Road display (km 0.1 Canol Road) where they can see highway era relics and learn about the contributions of Black Soldiers. A panel in Teslin (km 1244) talks about the role of First Nation guides in surveying the highway routes