"Punch" Dickins and the Origin of Canol's Mackenzie Air Fields

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Barry, P.S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1979
• Subjects: Airports; Canol Project; Dickins; C.H; Local history; Military history; Petroleum pipelines; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; Mackenzie River region; N.W.T; Yukon; Canol; Mackenzie River; Norman Wells; Arctic; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65686

Correspondence between the Canadian flyer, C.H. "Punch" Dickins, and government officials in Ottawa during the early summer of 1942 reveals that the United States Army began building an "unauthorized" military air route to Norman Wells . much earlier than the U.S. War Department's official histories admit, and that, although Canada's Cabinet War Committee professedly knew nothing of it, certain Canadian government personnel were privy to the secret. .