When the line of the Northwest Staging Route was overlaid atop the proposed highway routes, the obvious came into focus. Building generally along proposed Route C for 600-plus miles from Dawson Creek to Watson Lake would link the airfields at St. John, Fort Nelson, and Watson Lake. Building generally along proposed Route A another 500 miles from Whitehorse to Fairbanks via the Northway airfield on the Alaska-Canadian border would link up with Big Delta on the Richardson Highway. A 300-mile line was then drawn across the Cassiar Mountains between Whitehorse and Watson Lake to join the two
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