Puntzi Mountain Airport is located west of Puntzi Mountain,

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History

The airport was established in 1951 to provide access to a base of the Pine Tree Line, part of the

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system. It was the second-longest airstrip in British Columbia at the time. 13 D8 bulldozers were on site to keep the runway graded and, in winter, cleared of snow. 100 American servicemen and a few Canadian servicemen, some with families, staffed the base at Puntzi, which also hired local Tsilhqot'in people.''Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations'', John Sutton Lutz, UBC Press, 2008, pp. 153-154
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References

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