Filumena remains the only woman to have suffered legal homicide in the Province of Alberta. FCC carried on business until more fires underground and a mighty gas explosion levelled much of its surface plant in 1917. Mistake! By 1910, the Trough had attracted a dozen companies which employed 6,000 men and had, since the first commercial operation opened at Frank in 1901, yielded over three million tons of coal. The 1940s brought benefits and tragedy to Coleman. Here and there on the heights surrounding, the charred remains of the trees immolated in the wildfires of 2004 remind the human inhabitants of this valley just how vulnerable is the forest organism. Smuggling alcohol became big business in Canada when the United States adopted the Volstead Act on January 16th, 1919. Barely back into steadier production after a period sporadic activity, the Mine was wrecked by a tremendous blast at 10:20 p.m. on September 19th, 1926. H. Malcolmson, owner of the first X-ray machine in Alberta, who had divided his time between Frank and Pincher Creek since the former was founded. Crowsnest Pass: Hwy : .km East of - BC Border. The grand opening took place on January 1st, 1924, the entire 20,000 dollar cost of the project was paid off within a year and the building remained the sporting heart of the community until its demolition in May of 1999. You'll then see a more detailed elevation profile for the route. He was the first white man to cross the Canadian Rockies from west to east through an unexplored pass. The first of CCLs operations to close was the strip mine at Racehorse Creek in 1978, followed by Vicary in 1979 and Tent Mountain in 1980. Even the Town abandoned Coal when it instituted its own natural gas utility in the early 60s. Pressure from local motoring clubs was at least partially responsible for inducing the Alberta Department of Public Works to hack a roadbed along the current alignment of the No. In the past six years, Froese and his colleagues have installed 80 sensors of various types above Frank, on and around Turtle Mountain. Buildings worth saving were trundled away to Bellevue, Frank and Blairmore. A powerhouse was constructed wherein ten boilers steamed two 400 hp engines which were harnessed to matching 250 kW generators and two 1000-pound air compressors. McDonnell began forming the Alberta Provincial Police (APP) to serve in their stead.5 The cost of $1.32 per ton was down nearly 35% from 1905, supplying profits of $234,300 to WCCs investors. Thompson and Company, offered the convenience of night shopping, provided a horse drawn streetcar to carry shoppers down lengthy Victoria Avenue, and dominated regional commerce by arranging the delivery of purchases to any home in the Trough. Explore the slope, elevation, and distance along a path. hwy Crowsnest Pass. Law makes crime and soon the Alberta Provincial Police, lodged in less than adequate barracks without holding facilities, were inundated with criminals. Dr. G.B. George Pattinson and his Winnipeg Fuel and Supply acquired the operation around 1912, built two big kilns and hauled rock to them on a little narrow gauge tramway insinuated into the Slide. The wooden bridge which carried Front over the head of the Bellevue ravine was so scorched that it was removed and the defile there filled with mine waste. Rose was hired to run the company hospital. The works were cleaned out and coal was again soon flowing to the huge steel tipple that the Company had that year erected. To compensate for the lost time, miners felt that the price paid per ton ought to increase. Little, returned to the Trough in 1899 to develop the coal measures that he had noted on a prior visit near what was to become the community of Burmis near the eastern mouth of the Pass. On September 17th, 1917, McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke incorporated itself in Canada. Dues-paying UMWA men would receive raises and the general adoption of the battery-powered Edison Safety Lamp would be hastened. Lyon as mayor, the community took a second breath and bloomed into the Troughs major node. Here one finds the only hotel in the settlement, the quaint-looking two-storey Bellevue Inn. Blairmore continued to stagnate, but was able to muster flag-wavers enough to welcome the Governor-General and his wife, the Earl and Lady Gray, when they stopped for a couple of hours visit on September 15th in the year Alberta became a province of Canada, 1905. The Summit Lime Works is the smallest of Continentals Canadian plants, capable of delivering 250 tons per day from its four vertical kilns, as well as limestone gravel. The Hotel was soon ablaze and westerly breeze carried the flames from wall to wooden wall down the entire length of Front until they met with the only fire-proof structure in town, the Wheeler-Farmer Building, which saved the residential neighbourhood downwind of it along with the hospital. Occupying yards of column inches of type in the first few years issues of the Journal were stories chronicling the labour unrest prompted by the drastic cutbacks at International, and the Crowsnests floods of May, 1923, which nearly drowned both West and East Coleman, filled the lower levels of the International mine, ruined the Towns water supply and menaced the downtown. To deal with the unification of their labour, the mine owners in Crowsnest Pass formed the Western Coal Operators Association in 1906. A warren of shops and offices were growing up around the mine mouth. To access specific communities along The Highway, refer to the INDEX MAP or select from the list below. Business boomed as the railroad men, wearied by long hours of strenuous work, hastened to avail themselves of one of the few amenities in their world. Just above the yards, on the slope of Bluff Mountain, sits the concrete shell of the tipple, not worth the effort of destruction in 1958 when the works were salvaged, and now valued as a historic site. Come 1925 these were being absorbed piecemeal into the Mine Workers Union of Canada (MWUC) which spoke in increasingly radical tones as the Black Monday of October 29th, 1929, led the world into the Great Depression. As a consequence, implies A.A. den Otter in his Bondage of Steam (The CPR West, H.A. By 1910, with the No. No small task it was. Even at that rate the owners figured that they were under producing by half and, with a fat Balkan coke contract on the table and just awaiting a few additional signatures, tore into 1914 with a will. In the Coleman museum and in the occasional pamphlet, one sees a reproduction of the blueprint of the Hillcrest Mine. In 1935 the principals in Hillcrest Collieries began talking about amalgamation with the owners of the Mohawk Bituminous Mines across the Crowsnest River at Bellevue. Beyond Gargantua Cave, one of the largest spelunking attractions in Canada, the trail eventually crosses the Tent Pass to get into the Coal Creeks valley above Fernie, only some twenty miles as-the-crow-flies south-west from here. Porter of Pittsburgh and retired from service with International Coal and Coke in 1954, it has a slot lanced into the top of the tank: Ten Ton Toots, the Lions Club sign says, Worlds Biggest Piggybank Follow the signs to Lundbreck Falls where the Crowsnest River takes a 12 m (39 ft) tumble to the canyon below. On June 12th of 1903 R.G. In the new facility the coal was screened to separate the larger, more valuable lumps from the smaller fragments, the slack. Jewitt valued it at $3.5 millions. On April 1st, 1916, the RN-WMP created their Crowsnest Pass sub-division with one inspector, a sergeant and two constables, and designated Blairmore as their headquarters. Train Hold-up at Sentinel, Beneath the Overpass the diagonally orientated tracks of the CPR head off down the Trough. Yonder, a servant of the god Petroleum. for Canadian industry, and though the CPR was responsible for the resultant prosperity, it was resented both for its wealth and its apparent disregard for the little guy. Being a business, and a large, Eastern-owned one at that, it was naturally more concerned with its bottom line than with the convenience of the folks living along its right-of-way. On August 10th, 1904, WCC was registered as a foreign company in Canada, intent on enriching its backers. Labour problems could disrupt production or transportation break-downs could interrupt deliveries. Sorting coal by hand was time-consuming, and building a washery, like the coking ovens themselves, was an expensive proposition, a consideration for Trough mine operators whose coal was notoriously ashy. A clause in the Act standardized the eight-hour bank to banksurface to surfaceshift3, created an inspectorate of mines within the Public Works Departments Mine Branch to enforce regulations, and required the use of the closed safety lamp. Fishburn, T.G. The loss of their main customer edged the company to the brink of ruin. It was rebuilt while the Mine was recovered, and mining resumed. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a radical labour association formed in Chicago in 1905, involved itself in the affair. The highway goes east for 7km (4mi) to its junction with the Coquihalla Highway (Highway 5), where it exits the freeway and continues for 127km (79mi) on a segment known as the Hope-Princeton Highway, passing the Hope Slide en route to Allison Pass, Manning Provincial Park, and Sunday Summit; at Princeton, the Crowsnest Highway meets Highway 5A. A few hundred metres eastward from 21sts intersection, the Bellevue-Hillcrest Road has, since the creation of the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in 1979, come to the Highway from the south as 213th Street, crosses and climbs up the scarp to join 21st Avenue at the western edge of Bellevues central business district. No-one knew if Auloff had joined up with Bassoff in the rocks and everybody expected more gun play. The Wayside Chapel, standing on the corner where 227th Street intersects the Highway, can seat all of 14 folks in cozy confinement. During the process of mining, it crumbled readily, filling the works with suspended dust which, like any organic dust, needed only to reach a critical concentration point in the right mixture of air to detonate with the slightest of sparks. Whether Blairmore welcomed the adventurers or simply regarded them as some sort of bizarre life-form is a question for further research, but the Cavalcade heralded what is now an important industry for the town. It is a pleasant, pricy, camp for cyclists. It turned to the No. Its a pretty nice day job. Realizing that they were into something good, Henry Frank and Gebo organized the Canadian-American Coal and Coke Company (C-AC&C) in November of 1901, and began investment in surface plant. Particularly irksome to the men was the Companys refusal to build a wash-house in which to scrub away the encrusted grime of a day sweated away in the mine. The Greenhill Hotel is the symbol of West Canadian Collieries commitment to the Town of Blairmore. With B.C.s completion of the section over the Cascade Mountains in November of 1949, the Highway was designated the Crowsnest. The section along the Lake, overseen by Crowsnest Mountain itself soaring into the Sky azure depths to the north-west, was re-aligned and finally paved in 1952. However, as the company dug deeper into the measures, the quantity of ash increased to nearly 18%. The gang then proceeded to relieve conductor Samuel E. Jones of his 23-jewel Elgin pocket watch and collected jewellery, time-pieces and some $400 in cash from the rest of the male passengers. Canada's South has four other major mountain passes, namely Yellowhead Pass, Kicking Horse Pass, Howse Pass, and Vermillion Pass. When Solanus of the East triumphs, these streets must have been a misery with fumes from the coke ovens permeating everything porous and coal dust drifting in black clouds across the sun. On the Alberta side, the Crowsnest River flows east from Crowsnest Lake, eventually draining into the Oldman River and ultimately reaching Hudson Bay via the Nelson River. The mine owners, unsurprisingly, disagreed with both the miners and the Eight-Hour Shift regulation. The CPR sought and received construction funding from the federal government, partially in exchange for a freight subsidy on prairie farm exports and equipment imports which came to be called the "Crow's Nest Pass Agreement". 3, Interprovincial Highway, remaining for years the main road connection between the two Western provinces, a vital link in Canadas coast-to-coast auto route. Discouraged by the dirty coal they uncovered, Gebo began checking out other prospects in the region. Completing the F&GM with its required 23 trestles in February of 1903, the pair used it to haul matriel up to the mine site where they soon had their men hacking five openings into the coal measures. By invoking the statute Ottawa extended the charter of the proposed British Columbia Southern Railway from the Great Divide eastward into the District of Alberta to the CPs Calgary and Macleod Railway and onward to Lethbridge, permitted the CPR to lease it and gifted the line with an $11,000 per mile subsidy. Rumours that the region was rich in coal had been in circulation for nearly 40 years before Dr. George Mercer Dawson of the Geological Survey of Canada made his way into the Crowsnest Pass in 1884. It takes its name from the Crowsnest Pass, the location at which the highway crosses the Continental Divide between British Columbia and Alberta. Prohibition became Law in Alberta on July 1st of 1916. Into the seam above the Main vertical raises would be dug for as far as the seam allowed. Reports Harold Freyer in his contribution to the Canadian West Magazine Volume 8 Number 1, Blue-Coated Mounties, Justice of the Peace Joseph H. Robertson was the first to spot the pair and hustled to phone the Alberta Provincial Police offices in Blairmore. By the time that its postal bureau opened on August 1, 1901, the 300 or so residents of the little hamlet of Frank could send their kids to schoollikely at someones cabin,buy necessities in a few tent stores down on Dominion Avenue, frequent a saloon or two, and keep track of all the local doings courtesy the Frank Sentinel. Beebe. Dead and injured horses from the Poupoure and McVeigh camp were everywhere. It is now the Masonic Hall, the last of the school classes having been moved to Blairmore in 1957. It was cleaner burning, easier to handle and, as the science of geology improved its skills, more and more petroleum was located and it was becoming cheaper. Though delayed by the early June floods of that year, come July construction was completed and, without fanfare, the Spanish-Colonial Revival Style building was occupied by the District Court of Fort Macleod and the APP. Peter Hazell, who created Summit Lime Works. 2 and No. Further, CM&S undertook to buy all its coal and coke from CCL for the next ten years. Under the supervision manager E.E. Mornecys cabins served well those too tuckered out to drive home after an evening of hi-jinx. Partially to suppress the dust, but mostly to separate contaminants from the coal and thereby increase its value, in 1934 WCC added a wet washery to the works complex. It was a bold thing to do, walking into town like that; everybody was keeping an eye out for them. Negligence, roared the Union, and resentments hardened. The trees in the Trough had been burned over in July of 1896, so McLarens staked their timber berths in the watersheds of the Allison, Star and York Creeks. That year, too, the Anglican congregation was able to raise their St. Francis Church, and the Finlanders Dance Hall soon followed. Though the Turtle has been grievously injured, it is not dead; every so often, especially in the spring, it sends great hunks of limestone hurtling down to crash into the Lake or smash to rest amongst the other fallen rocks. Though early tests had assured Leitch that the coal in No. In early 1911 ranger George Ritchie was posted to Coleman to establish the boundaries of the Forest and begin building a network of trails and overnight cabins throughout the area to accommodate patrols. Elevation of Crowsnest Hwy, Cranbrook, BC V1C, Canada Location: Canada > British Columbia > East Kootenay > East Kootenay C > Cranbrook > Longitude: -115.75010 Latitude: 49.5266357 Elevation: 903m / 2963feet Barometric Pressure: 91KPa Elevation Map: Satellite Map: Related Photos: Isadore Canyon Trail Fort Steele Heritage Town Though the coal industrys failure ripped the economic heart out of Bellevue, amazingly the town did not die. 3 overpasses the CPRs tracks. Lille has vanished. In 1976 the community finally installed a sewerage system and extended water distribution to Maple Leaf and other areas. It addressed the issue of children in the pits, and set a wage for contract miners at $0.57 per long ton (2240 lbs.) Leitch Collieries barely survived 1914. Larger lumps of coal were worth more because they burned longer in the consumers furnaces. 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