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Canol Blitz Story of the $138,000,000 project which is lining Canada s Main street to Asia with airfields, oil wells, highways and pipe lines August 15 1943 RICHARD FINNIE Canol Blitz Story of the $138,000,000 project which is lining Canada s Main street to Asia with airfields, oil wells, highways and pipe lines RICHARD FINNIE Editor’s Note: The “Canol Project’’ described by Mr. Finnie is one of the most notable construction operations in Canadian history. It involves the opening up of an oil field on the Mackenzie River only 75 miles south of the Arctic circle, construction by the U. S. Army of l,6OO miles of oil pipe lines traversing subarctic wastes, intensive development of a 1 ,200-mile lake-and-river transport system, building of a refinery and many hundreds of miles of new highways, and construction of new key air routes through the Canadian northwest. .4 Washington report stales the project wiV cost ¿138,000,000.

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