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In addition to numbered highways, Yukon has several other roads that are maintained by the territorial government. Aishihik Road (pronounced aysh-ee-ack) is an 84-mile road from the Alaska Highway at Canyon Creek (historic mile 996) to the former airfield of Aishihik at the north end of Aishihik Lake. [1]
Number Old # Name Length (km) [1] Length (mi) From To 1 Alaska Highway: 957.15 594.75 Highway 97 south of Watson Lake: AK-2 at U.S. border east of Alcan Border, AK: 5 South Klondike Highway: 133.7 83.1 AK-98 north of Skagway, AK: Hwy 1 southeast of Whitehorse: 2, 3 North Klondike Highway: 524 326 Hwy 1 north of Whitehorse: Hwy 9 in Dawson City ...
Until 1978, the unopened section between the Yukon–BC border and Carcross had no official highway number, while the section north of Carcross to the Alaska Highway was Highway 5, and the section from Stewart Crossing to Dawson was Highway 3. The BC section is now maintained by the Yukon government as a natural extension of Highway 2.
The highway begins 40 km (25 mi) east of Dawson City, Yukon on the Klondike Highway.There are no highway or major road intersections along the highway's route. It extends 736 km (457 mi) in a north-northeasterly direction to Inuvik, Northwest Territories, passing through Tombstone Territorial Park and crossing the Ogilvie and Richardson mountain ranges.
I wrote to the Yukon government in December to suggest that the section of the Cassiar Highway within the Yukon be numbered 37, and was informed that it is already. GBC 03:55, 28 June 2007 (UTC) [ reply ]
However, the Canadian government perceived no value in putting up the required funds to build the road, since the only part of Canada that would benefit was not more than a few thousand people in Yukon. In 1929, the British Columbia government proposed a highway to Alaska to encourage economic development and tourism.
It is part of the National Airports System, and is owned and operated by the Government of Yukon. [1] The airport was renamed in honor of longtime Yukon Member of Parliament Erik Nielsen on December 15, 2008. [5] The terminal handled 294,000 passengers in 2012, representing a 94% increase in passenger traffic since 2002. [6]
The Shakwak Agreement, also known as the Shakwak Project, is a highway construction funding accord between the United States and Canada, reached in 1976. [1] The agreement, covering Canadian portions of the Haines Highway and Alaska Highway, deals with long-standing requests from Alaskans for improvement of the roads connecting the panhandle with the rest of the state of Alaska.