Alaska Highway Memorial

Alaska Highway Memorial is a monument in Peace River Regional District, British Columbia. Alaska Highway Memorial is situated nearby to South Charlie Lake Wetland Conservation Project, as well as near the motorhome stopover Rotary RV Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort St. John.

Fort St. John is in the Peace Country and Northern Rockies and is the second-largest settlement along the Alaska Highway. The city of 20,000 people is in northeastern British Columbia, approximately 382 km south of Fort Nelson and 75 km north of Dawson Creek.

Type: Monument
Inscription: “This monument is dedicated to the memory of the United States soldiers lost with the sinking of a US Corp of Engineers Pontoon Barge on May 14, 1942 at Charlie Lake, British Columbia, Canada.”
Category: historic site
Location: Peace River Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

56.27858° or 56° 16′ 43″ north

Longitude

-120.9544° or 120° 57′ 16″ west

Open location code

948X72HW+C6

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

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