We are in Dawson Creek, BC, the home of Mile 0 of the ALCAN Highway. 

                                                               Mile 0 Marker in Dawson
We have noticed in leaving Calgary to Edmonton to Dawson Creek, there is a lot of energy development  and logging.  The Canadians are drilling wells like we are in the Bakken, and Dawson Creek area is a huge shale gas project.  They are fracking all the wells up here, and installing pipelines to the West Coast for shipping to the Far East.

                                                                 Dawson Creek Sawmill
We saw many stacks of cut trees, ready for the mills.  One of the places we visited was a wooden bridge , built in 1942.

                                                            Kiskatinaw Bridge

It is quite a bridge, and is still in use today.  The visitor center in Dawson has a one hour film on the building of the road; you had to be tough to work up here.  I didn't know that there were 6000 civilian workers, run by the US Highway Administration working up here.  I always thought it was just the Corp of Engineers.

The roads have been 4 to 6 lanes all the way, except for the stretch from Havre to Medicine Hat, and the weather has been a mix of days of  sunshine and days of rain.  Luckly, the rain days have been when we were moving from one place to another.

                                                             Beaver Creek, AB
Today, we are headed to Fort Nelson, BC