ROAD BUILDING IN CANADA. — Difficulties encountered in building motor highways through virgin areas of Canada's northland include blasting whole rock hillsides. The picture shows unemployed road builders placing dynamite on a section of the Big Bend, Columbia Highway, in British Columbia, which, when finished, will be the remotest road on the North American Continent, having no towns on Us 190-mile route.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 10
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61ROAD BUILDING IN CANADA.—Difficulties encountered in building motor highways through virgin areas of Canada's northland include blasting whole rock hillsides. The picture shows unemployed road builders placing dynamite on a section of the Big Bend, Columbia Highway, in British Columbia, which, when finished, will be the remotest road on the North American Continent, having no towns on Us 190-mile route. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 10
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