History Abandoned

Far up in the Canadian Yukon wilderness lies an absolute graveyard of abandoned trucks. 450km along the desolate and hardly maintained South & North Canol Roads, the rusty truck cemetery lays. The road is long and ever so bumpy, potholes like you've never seen! The Canadian & American military were involved with the building of the Canol pipeline, which wasconstucted to extract oil from Norman Wells, NWT to the capital of Yukon, Whitehorse. There was a sense of urgency to have an alternate supply of oil on land due to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. The oil started flowing in 1944, with 3,000 barrels of oil a day reaching the Yukons' capital, but it was only in operation for one year, closing in 1945. This was mainly due to the pipeline not being a viable operation as the war had ended and the threat had diminished. The trucks have been left to rust since then. We journeyed up the isolated road over a few days and spent the night camped in our van next to a stunning flowing river, opposite the trucks. It was mid-summer July night, so the sun didn't seem to set. It was the perfect peace and tranquillity we needed in 2020.