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 trapper's cabin
A trapper's cabin. February 1944.
Trapper’s cabin up along one of the little lakes. This guy really had it made. He came in in the fall by plane, landed on the lake and spent the winter in this nice cabin and then he’d be flown out in the spring with his winter catch of furs.
Yukon Archives. Phillip Neal fonds, 93/9 #62, PHO 437
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