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In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic.

When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism.

They were nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch, Doc and Wop.

Building transportation routes through the Rockies is dangerous. It always has been. It is also expensive, labour-intensive, and highly political.