In Yukon, the highways aren't signed with numbers so people don't get familiar with the official number designations.
Locally, some of the highways are known by different names but everyone seems to also know the official name.
Further mussing things up here is the use of mileposts vs. kilometre posts along the Alaska Highway.
American visitors seem to prefer using the distances listed in the Milepost guide, usually using the familiar miles.
The posts along the highway display kilometres in Canada. Yet, very few locals use the km numbers to designate a location. "These days" locals tend to use place names.
Some of us 'old-timers' continue to use historical mileages which is how locations were referred to decades ago. The historical mileages differ from present-day mileages due to highway improvements, except for Mile 0 :B
For instance, I grew up at Twelve-oh-Four, very near Twelve-oh-Two.
The Alaska border was at Twelve-Twenty-One
I had friends who lived at Eleven-Sixty-Nine, Eleven-Eighteen, Ten-Eighty-Three and Ten-Sixteen.
On occasion we drove into Nine-Eighteen to stock up on supplies.
