World Famous Alaska Hotel Metal Print

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The " Alaska Hotel " was situated in Dawson Creek, on 10th Street just 50 paces from the Mile ' 0 ' sign.

This historic hotel in the northern B.C. community of Dawson Creek has been destroyed by fire, on Friday, September 14, 2012 at 5 p.m. evening.

'' It is hard to imagine that after years of being Dawson Creek's most iconic structure, the Alaska Hotel could be destroyed in a matter of hours. While what remains of the building is a heap of charred rubble and ash, it is the stories and memories of its dwellers and denizens that now keep the 80-year-old building alive '', wrote Brock Campbell days later on the 24th September at Alaska Highway News.

"There's nothing that I can do to bring it back and I have to believe and be satisfied that I had the pleasure putting in forty years 55 paces south of the Mile Zero Post," said Kux-Kardos, owner of the Alaska Hotel.

At the age of 25 years Juergen Weiss discovered the passion to travel, in order to become acquainted with stranger countries, people and cultures. After yourneys on the African Continent, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, he continued to go further to the East. Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and also Hongkong were his goals. In the mid 90`s, Juergen fulfilled his dream finally, when he traveled for a Backpack-Route to South America. And only one year later, he crossed Central America, from Mexico City to Panama City. After some Spain and Portugal-Journeys and after two Greenland Cruiseships, he traveled several times into the North American Continent, and also to Alaska, where Juergen was already seven times. The winter 2005 he...