From: ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com   
      
   wattsma6@telus.net wrote in   
   news:712aa6dd-53dd-4f14-9810-db3f321d6ef0@googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Monday, December 16, 2013 at 1:52:39 AM UTC-7, 1965ce...@gmail.com   
   > wrote:   
   >> On Saturday, March 27, 1999 1:00:00 AM UTC-7, W.Blain Murray wrote:   
   >> > Does anyone have any info on the old airfield at Smith River, BC.   
   >> > I believe it was an ex-US Airforce base???!?!?   
   >> > Can you help?   
   >   
   > Smith River BC was one of the intermediate airports established on that   
   > airway by Canada's Dept. of Transport. The airway was under   
   > construction prior to the US entering the war. At that time the   
   > construction was speeded up and some change made to accommodate the   
   > Alaska highway construction. All the airports and the airway were then   
   > taken over by the RCAF. The Dept.of Transport continued to supply the   
   > navigational aids, communication and weather reporting. The US was   
   > never in Smith River but they did have detachments at each of the major   
   > airports to assist with the USAAF flights. After the war the entire   
   > route was returned to Dept. of Transport. Smith River was unique in   
   > that it had a 7000 ft. Runway. Smith River was located between Ft.   
   > Nelson BC and Watson lake YT. The intermediated airports were Beatton   
   > River. Smith River BC, Teslin, Aishihik and Snag YT. Main Airports were   
   > Ft. St. John and Ft. Nelson BC Watson lake and Whitehorse YT.   
      
   Stalest thread in CCM history, but...   
   If you check the area on Google Maps, you can still see the scar left   
   where they cleared the forest for the strip.   
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