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Unofficial views: Phillip Neal
Phillip Neal was in the U.S. Army 341st Engineers General Service Regiment, constructing the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson, B.C. He also served in Whitehorse at Northwest Service Command Headquarters where he was in charge of vehicle maintenance for the Alaska Highway and the Canol project, 1942-1945. Mr. Neal donated his collection of films, slides, and sound recordings to Yukon Archives in 1993. The slides are organized in the form of a slide show that is narrated by Mr. Neal on his sound recording. The complete slide show, including 140 photographs, is presented here along with the transcribed sound recording (Yukon Archives. Phillip Neal fonds, 93/9, SR 165 (1)).
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Church at Bennett, Mile 36. May 1945.
And that’s the famous chapel at the lower end of Lake Bennett which was started during the Gold Rush days of ’98 but the Gold Rush was over before they ever completed it. But in this area here at the lower end, that’s where they built their boats to go the rest of the way by water. And they said there was as many as 10,000 people right in this area at that point.
Yukon Archives. Phillip Neal fonds, 93/9 #124, PHO 437
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