Hi Kramerd2,
Just thought I'd do the replying here as I am less efficient at answering the email at home than I am PM from the forum or being on the forum!
I don't know a lot about my grandfather's activities on the Alaskan Highway. I know he was in Vancouver when my Dad left there Sept 24, 1940. And was in Whitehorse before the end of the war and lived there for almost 20 years after that before his death in 1964. My father only saw his father once or twice again after my Dad left to serve in Europe.
Wikipedia has an entry on the Alaska Highway, and when I was checking it out yesterday there were quite a few sites about it.
The photos I inherited of my grandfather show him living in a camp environment and eventually working with mining in the Yukon. I don't know a lot about him as he died without me ever meeting him. From what my Dad said he was self-educated, a multilinguist, who used to do fast draw demonstrations/competitions at local fairs to make extra money in the 30s! He was a fair cook, baking his own bread etc, so perhaps ended up as a cook on the highway. He was a life insurance salesman going into the 30s and the depression mostly shut down that livelihood. A portion of my Dad's growing up was in the Peace River country, so my grandfather had strong bush survival skills which would have also been an asset on the Alaska Hightway project.
The official start of contstruction started on March 8, 1942. Mile 0 is at Dawson Creek in the Peace River area of BC, only a short distance from Pouce Coupe where my grandfather and my Dad lived.
Map of the Peace Country of Alberta and British Columbia, CanadaPeaceCountry.com Ironically, one of my father's postings after he joined the RCAF post the World War II was to Fort Nelson, also in th ePeace River and on the Alaska Highway.
Please share any discoveries you make. I'll lwet you know if I ever find out exactly what my grandfather was doing - most likely I'll only find out through some public records.