The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Arriving from the north on the steamer Queen Saturday afternoon, was a notable party of visiting Can adians consisting of His Honor, Robert Randolph Bruce. Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. his secretary, MT. A. NJ. D. Fairbairn, MT. 0lof Hanson. Swedish Consul for British Columbia and MT. H. F. Kergin, member of the Legislative Assembly for Atlin riding of Brit ish Columbia.
 His Honor and Mir. Fairbalrn left Vancouver June 10th on the Canadi- an National steamer Prince George. MT. Kergin and MT. Hanson board ed the vessel at Prince Rupert on the next day. The party left the boat at Skagway and visited Atlin. West Alice Arm and Whitehorse be- fore returning to Skagway. There they took passage on the steamer Queen visiting Juneau, Sitka and Petersburg on their way to Wran- gell en route to Telegraph Creek, B. c. which His Honor desired to visit as part of his plan to cover every part of the province of British Columbia and north Pacific Coast during his tenure of office.
 Another objective of the trip combined pleasure and the desire to gather information at first hand of the possibilities of the country to- gether with a knowledge of it's past, present and future. particular ly the future. The members of the party stated that the trip had been very enjoyable and informative. At Sitka they visited the museum, the National Park, and the U. s. Ex- perimental Station besides noting the many interesting relics of the Russian occupancy of Alaska. Al Juneau they visited the Territorial Museum and made the side trip to Mendenhall glacier. At each place glsited it is said His Honor was ex- .remely gratified at the hospitable
 reception accorded him and the kindness shown In making readily accessible all avenues of informa- tion. This resulted in his gaining an insight of the life of the com munities, the problems Alaskans in common with their north British Columbia and Yukon neighbors have to meet and the efficiency with which they are working out these problems.
 The members of the party were much interested in discussing with the citizens of the various com munities the necessity and prac. ticability of building an Interna- tional highway from Fairbanks. Alaska, to Hazelton, British Colum- bia, and have found Alaskans very favorably impressed with the prop osition. MT. Kergin, when asked as to the origin of the demand for the projected highway acknowledg- ed that for years he had dreamed of highway to connect Whitehorse. the head of navigation on the Yukon River, with Hazelton, the present northern terminal of British Columbia's road system, and had preached the subject in a speech eight years ago in the Legislative Assembly in Victoria. He said that the present scheme Is more compre- hensive and in reality means link ing interior Alaska, Yukon Terri tory, and northern British Columbia with Montreal, New York and Mexico and the ultimate linking of the whole North American conti- neRt.
 According to the visitors an out standing event of the trip was their contact in Juneau with the Alaskan Aerial Survey Detachment. His Honor was keenly interested in the methods employed and the results attained by the Aerial Survey in making air pictures as a basis for maps for the U. S. Geological Sur vey of areas whose topography is so rugged as to make mapping by ground methods particularly diff ficult. The same typographical prob. lems exist in British Columbia and Yukon and similar Aerial Surveys over portions of British Columbia have been recently inaugurated by the Dominion Government.