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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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A baby moose at Muncho Lake. July 1944.
And this is up at Muncho Lake, there’s a baby moose there in the foreground and one lying down in the background. When the troops went through, the animals up there were not frightened of human beings because they had never seen that many of ‘em. So the GIs would go out in the woods and they’d pet these baby moose and then the mothers wouldn’t have anything to do with them, so they’d have to bring them back to camp to feed them. And so they built this corral not to keep the moose in but to keep the grizzly bears out, because baby moose is a delicacy for the big old grizzly bear.
Yukon Archives. Phillip Neal fonds, 93/9 #59, PHO 437
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