The "Frank Slide"

The following is an extract from a website which tells the story of the "Frank Slide".
The town of Frank is close to Lethbridge and at first when you drive through it looks like a quarry but it has a hell of a story.

For all the info visit http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/frank.htm

The place not to be the morning of April 29, 1903 was the town of Frank, Alberta.
Frank was a burgeoning mining town of 600 nestled in the Crowsnest Pass in the shadow of the massive Turtle Mountain which rises over 7,000 feet above town.

At 4:10 AM that fateful morning the town and the mountain became one as a 70-million ton wedge of overhanging limestone broke away, shattered into large boulders, crashed 300 feet down the mountain across the valley and 500 feet up the another mountain on the other side of the valley.

In a brief 100 ear-shattering, bone-jarring seconds, 76 persons lost their lives, 23 were injured and 17 miners were trapped inside a mine shaft behind over 100 feet of rubble and stone.


The pics I have taken cannot do this place justice. When you see it with the human eye you can imagine the enormity of it all and the camera lens just cannot capture that.