Population: 110
The small settlement was started about 1955 and had a Post Office in 1958. Canada Customs and other businesses have enlarged the community since then. Canadian customs is located north of town beside the airport. This place is also the scene of the contact point of the northern and southern construction crews building the Alaska Highway. On 20 October 1942 bulldozer operator Cpl. Refine Sims Jr. of Philadelphia and the 18th US Army Engineers was working south on the section from Fairbanks. He met his opposite number, Pte. Alfred Jalufka of Kennedy,Texas and the 97th Engineers, who was working north from Whitehorse. An excellent tourist information center is located in the small community, which also has fuel, camping and lodging.