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Northwest Staging Route Hist. 
a series of airports established between Edmonton and Whitehorse during World War II.
- 1944 . . . the Government . . . developed and improved this particular route to Yukon by the building of a line of airports at Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Watson Lake and Whitehorse, and so the present airway known as the Northwest Staging Route came into being.
- 1958 With the quiet switch of the last airports of the wartime Northwest Staging Route. . . .
- 1944 . . . the Government . . . developed and improved this particular route to Yukon by the building of a line of airports at Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Watson Lake and Whitehorse, and so the present airway known as the Northwest Staging Route came into being.