Alcan Hwy
We drove the Alcan 30yrs ago we have heard it is much improved, we want to take another trip with our trailer but we want to know if anyone has driven the Alcan lately and if anybody can recommend tir...
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Signs are like the Internet. If it is on the Internet it must be true. For many years Fairbanks had a sign proclaiming it to be the end of the Alaska Highway.
I think everyone needs to keep in mind that many things have an official name and other names for the same item that we all tend to understand. How many of us use official medical school terms to refer to body parts? Very few I would guess. There is often an official name, common used names, slang terms, both acceptable and non-acceptable and those not politically correct. I often wonder who gets to decide on politically correctness. No one ever ask me. Some folks seem capable of being offended by anything said or seen.
The use of the term Alcan is not a derogatory word that I have every been aware of like other words in our vocabularies. So I plan to continue using it along with Alaska Hwy to identify the road I am referring to at the time. If someone wants to get their undies bunched up over that, their problem, not mine.
The highway known as the Cassiar also has several names, Hwy 37, the Dease Lake road, the Stuart-Hyder Hwy but most often as the Cassiar. Before the Cassiar Highway was finished/connected, only the northern part of the road that went to the Cassiar asbestos mines was called the Cassiar. Then when the sections of road were connected in the early 70s, it became more commonly known as the Cassiar. I has noticed that Murray tends to use a name other than Cassiar when mentioning that highway, probably because he used to work at the Grand Duc mine out past Hyder, up near the glacier, back in BC and lived in Stewart BC.
And to think, we still have spring fever and cabin fever of the northerners to go through before RVers start reporting on their trips again.
I think everyone needs to keep in mind that many things have an official name and other names for the same item that we all tend to understand. How many of us use official medical school terms to refer to body parts? Very few I would guess. There is often an official name, common used names, slang terms, both acceptable and non-acceptable and those not politically correct. I often wonder who gets to decide on politically correctness. No one ever ask me. Some folks seem capable of being offended by anything said or seen.
The use of the term Alcan is not a derogatory word that I have every been aware of like other words in our vocabularies. So I plan to continue using it along with Alaska Hwy to identify the road I am referring to at the time. If someone wants to get their undies bunched up over that, their problem, not mine.
The highway known as the Cassiar also has several names, Hwy 37, the Dease Lake road, the Stuart-Hyder Hwy but most often as the Cassiar. Before the Cassiar Highway was finished/connected, only the northern part of the road that went to the Cassiar asbestos mines was called the Cassiar. Then when the sections of road were connected in the early 70s, it became more commonly known as the Cassiar. I has noticed that Murray tends to use a name other than Cassiar when mentioning that highway, probably because he used to work at the Grand Duc mine out past Hyder, up near the glacier, back in BC and lived in Stewart BC.
And to think, we still have spring fever and cabin fever of the northerners to go through before RVers start reporting on their trips again.
