The Year of the Alaska Highway: 1942

Moments

The Alaska Highway, built in fear and haste by the U.S. army in eight months, provided evidence that North America was secure from invasion and demonstrated a feat of unparalleled cooperation between two countries. But it also disrupted indigenous peoples, wildlife and habitats, and exposed the need for study and consultation. It also led to an ecological consciousness of the north, of its environment and populations and, ultimately, an understanding that wilderness is finite and fragile.

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“Be patient, some goods are scarce”: Edmonton’s Wartime Black Markets, 1939-1945

Queers on Campus

Moments

After Bill C-150 outlawed the government from the bedrooms of the nation, gay men and lesbians could live openly, without fear of imprisonment, for the first time. But it took two more years before queers at the U of A began organizing the first in a series of student groups which would defend their right to exist on campus.

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