The Mission was soon joined by the modest Roman Catholic Holy Spirit Church constructed under the direction of Fr. Built within spitting distance of the Railways tracks, in 2002 one can still stay the night and get grumbled awake in the early morning hours by a lonesome way freight. On the day, followed by his eldest son, Stephano, driving the carrying car, the Emperor motored along the Red Route in one of his McLaughlins heading for Blairmore. There are one or two other architectural curios featured in the Crowsnest Pass Historical Driving Tour: Coleman that a departing visitor could glance over. Power tools were acquired, and pumps to keep the Mine dry as workers began digging down below the water table. Most of that income, 85% in Internationals case, had been derived from the CPR, while CM&S itself had taken 12% of Internationals output. Its main street a generous 80 feet wide and the others laid out to a standard 66 feet, the community was soon growing, built with lumber felled on the site, watered from the Creek. Probably more than Campbell, Howard appreciated that the quickly shrinking market necessitated a drastic cuts in the costs of production. Noted is D.A. The major consumers were the smelters at Greenwood, Trail and Grand Forks, some 250 water-interrupted rail miles away. PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 1969 Location: 850 metres north of the Alberta-BC border, Crowsnest Highway Posted Elevation: 1358 metres - 4455 feet GPSR Elevation: 1366 metres Visit Instructions: Photos are not required, but they are encouraged. (Florence) Kerr wrote that Senator Peter McLaren was an Ottawa lumber magnate whose family had made rafts of money in the mid-1800s supplying the people of Central Canada with the wooden materials with which to build their cities. None were ever refired, and in the years since many of the thousands of bricks used to build them have made their way into new constructions in the Pass. Faced with decreased government patronage, the Coal Operators were more open to compromise and finally, on November 16th a truce was reached which saw the UMWA men return to work. (Henry) Pelletier flumed logs down to his mill located on a property just west of McLarens. This route through the Crowsnest, the Red Routenot to be confused with the All-Red Route from Medicine Hat to Banffwas completed through Blairmore in the early 1920s and for years remained the only route through the mountains. The Dypolt family, however, chose to build their general store on the new townsite, and did the Roman Catholics with their Sacred Heart (Corpus Christi) Church, which was dedicated on November 13th, 1910. The upshot was that the Trough producers were required to maintain expensive stockpiles of inventory and were frequently forced to suspend operations and default on deliveries. It served until the M.D. Kerr in his introductory article in Crowsnest and its People (Crowsnest Pass Historical Society, Coleman, 1979), during the Mesozoic Period between 220 and 70 million years ago. On May 9th, 1906, the government of the newly-formed province of Alberta involved itself in the business of mining coal by having lieutenant-governor Geo. Uncontrolled explosion was anathema to mining. Ending the phalanx of signs on the south side of the Avenue is the beautifully belled Gambrel roof of the two-story Greenhill Hotel. At the moment the morning shift of 237 men was hard at work underground; only 48 would return alive to their families. In 2002, however, the American embargo on imports of softwood lumber from Canada had brought an anxious tranquility to Atlas. Lower slopes carpeted in sweet-smelling pine and spruce, the upper slopes of barren rock sheltering drifts of snow in shady defiles even at the height of summer. Fishburn, T.G. The Crowsnest Highway is an east-west highway in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. WCC was paralysed, its 750-odd workers picketing the company offices and plant. A few, however, including some designed and constructed by Pozzi, such as 1923s Union Bank Building on the corner of 127th Street, have either been preserved in, or restored to, their original condition. 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. While that was being accomplished, Fernau came to Frank to build his smelter, the overgrown remains of which travellers on the Crowsnest Highway have noticed on the north side of the road at the western entrance to new Frank. The new owners razed the existing structures and built the opulent three-story wood framed Rocky Mountains Sanatorium hotel complete with sun-balconies and terraria, a hot pool, a cold pool, a battery of big, galvanized iron soaking tubs in the basement, a steam room, bar room, billiards room, and a zoological garden. Besides lowering the selling price of the mines product, blasting also raised several safety issues. Noting for future reference the ruined remains of a battery of low brick arches hiding in a grove of scrawny cottonwoods to the north of the Highway, the traveller looks away southward at a small, rural industrial park which hosts a trucking company but is centred on Universal Reel and Recycling, Inc., which was founded in 1965 as R&R Lumber Supplies, and makes those big wooden cable reels. Access and camping to the scramble objectives in Kane's book was fairly wide open in 2011. However, the Slide had dammed the Crowsnest River and the resulting lake soon rose to send water gurgling into the Mine. Make sure to select the car once as well, just to check that the route is the same. smelters to reduce their coal and coke orders to the detriment of the Pass collieries which, even when idle, had to maintain their properties and to keep their labour employed lest it drift away. Six kilometres away to the north-north-east, isolated by the Allison Creek valley on its west, the McGillivray valley on its east and accompanied by only its Seven Sisters shyly peeking out from behind it, Crowsnest Mountain dramatically erupts to 9100 feet. Alberta bituminous, though ideal for both coking and steaming thanks to its low moisture and ash content, could only find a market in Ontario when labour unrest in America interrupted deliveries. Disagreements and walk-outs culminated in the long strike of 1924 when the mines in the Pass, with the notable exception of McGillivray C&C at Coleman, fell silent. According to John Nicol in The All Red Route: From Halifax to Victoria in a 1912 REO, (McArthur and Co., Toronto, 1999), the next year Alberta dedicated $1.5 million to better its roads. Clad in stone-grey plaster with white half-timbered gable ends and grandly pillared porticos supporting balconies, it is very little changed since it was built by W. Pettifor of Calgary for West Canadian Collieries, Limited, (WCC) in 1921. He took a couple of handguns, too, one of which, a 32 calibre Colts autoloader, he gave to Filumena. McEachern School was opened in September of 1962, when it became the communitys Maple View Hall. Dust and smoke stained the air and the defile resonated with the discordant music of industry. Some experts believe its just a matter of time before another major landslide occurs. Haul roads were graded. Some logging and oil and gas exploitation also occur in the area and a sulphur plant has been in operation there for several years. South of the houses, on the Railways right-of-way, stands the rusting turquoise remains of Coleman Collieries Limiteds tipple. Down on the CNL, according to Bohi and Kozma in their Canadian Pacifics Western Depots: The Country Stations of Western Canada, CP had left a Standard Second Class Station in the area in 1898. 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. The infliction of prohibition on July 1st, 1916, curbed the rougher amusements, likely ensuring the success of the Lyric Theatre and the Rex which Mr. and Mrs. Coles opened in 1917. The Age of Oil had arrived in Alberta. It is a beautiful scene; the Lake clean and deep green in the mountain shadows, azure in the hard sunlight reflected from the naked calcareous cliffs. Unlike MCC, International had made money during the War and in 1948 its directors had begun a program of capital investment in their works. Travel from the surface to the coal-face was time consuming and the miners naturally thought they should be compensated for it. Writes John Kinnear Crowsnest and Its PeopleMillennium Edition, Pass-wide some 1400 workers walked out. Belgium, France, Italy, the Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Great Britain, Cape Breton, and the United States all sent sons to seek fortune in the mines of the Pass. (Joe?) Was the coal cleanlow in incombustible ash and polluting elements such as sulphurand of high thermal potential? Mutz sold out to J.H. A swimming pool followed. The remainder of the waste was levelled and left to grow what meagre vegetation it could. After a year of joint operations the new company decided to concentrate its efforts on the Mohawk mine and on December 2nd of 1939,26 having salvaged everything worthwhile from the tunnels, the company blew the Hillcrests portals closed with enough explosive that the Mine hasnt heard a human footfall since. Coleman this morning, On the sunny side of 18th Avenue approaching 77th Street, visitors pass the towns erstwhile fire hall, built, records Judy Larmour in Crowsnest Pass Driving Tour: Coleman (Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, 1990), in the wake of the conflagration in the spring of 1905 and disfigured in 1934 with a concrete block facade. Besides, even though Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt and son Elliott Torrance Galt, directors of the AR&C, were tight with the Conservative party then ensconced on the federal seat of power, the opinion in Ottawa was that such a nationally important project as a railway to the raw wealth of southern British Columbia should not be left to what was, after all, a small company. In a momentous meeting held on October 8th of that year, CCLs board doubtless considered this proposal while re-arranging its companys basic structure. Frustration caused by the opposition of mine owners to changes of any kind drove the workers in the east Pass to rallies sponsored by the Workers Unity League (WUL) of Canada, a member of the Moscow Red International. This line was built primarily to access mineral-rich southeastern BC via an all-Canadian rail route, and to assert Canadian (and CPR) sovereignty in an area that U.S. railroads were beginning to build into. In Alberta, writes Chester B. Beaty in The Landscapes of Southern Alberta - A Regional Geomorphology (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, 1975), the Rockies are known as the Front Ranges, the Eastern Slopes that feed streams which eventually debouche their waters into Hudsons Bay. Because two tons of coal were needed to treat one ton of ore, the smelter, insisted Fernau, should be built at the coal mine and the ore transported thither. It needed a water system but had not the corporate weight to swing a loan. Mrs. Hamilton named the tiny collection of cottages that grew up by the River on Police Flats near Leitch No. they are, with a nearby shop in which to lock away bicycles snug and dry. A half a kilometre into the devastation, opposite the roadside information boards on the Highways south side, an access road winds visitors a couple of kilometres up onto the valleys northern bench to the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre where the event is fully explained, and other bits of Trough history addressed. Along the wharf at the narrow end of the ovens ran a steam ram which shoved the six tons of finished coke out of the oven onto the discharge wharf where it was quenched with water and loaded into boxcars lined up along the wharfs face. A mixed blessing are the extra-wide shoulders with which Albertans like to border their highways. The Greenhill Hotel is the symbol of West Canadian Collieries commitment to the Town of Blairmore. Until 1908, when WCC bought out Le Societ Anonyms interests for 100,000, much of the profit from the Lille operation was remitted to France at the expense of the miners. At the final tally, Hillcrest Collieries had employed around 107 miners at $5.40 per day guaranteed, and around 100 other workers whose scales ranged from $4.45 for a labourer to $5.10 for a timber packer. That year, too, the Anglican congregation was able to raise their St. Francis Church, and the Finlanders Dance Hall soon followed. Electricity came from Internationals steam-powered generator and was sold by the companys Coleman Light and Water Company, Limited, subsidiary. Downstream, northward, is the bridge carrying a remnant of the old highway on up a kilometre or so to Island Lake Campground. Across the Trough to the north Crowsnest Mountain stands in solitude. After the Big Strike of 1911, WCC resumed mining at Lille, but with decreasing enthusiasm. Buildings worth saving were trundled away to Bellevue, Frank and Blairmore. In late 1919, defying the recession which was crippling any business associated with the metals industry, Calgary-based Carlyle and Johnson bankrolled an outfit they called Bellevue Collieries which bought the rights to the seams of the old Leitch Collieries property then owned by Joe Little, on the east side of Tallon Peaks spur. The owners called in the police to maintain order and heads were cracked all round. Beyond, the Highway, eager to get down onto tiny Police Flats, cuts through the tip of the spur. Alchetron. Governments heeded this, the latest in a decade of warnings by various experts that the Turtle remained restless, and ordered old Frank be abandoned and the remaining populace relocated across the tracks to new Frank. Gushul, from earliest times until his death in May of 1962, was the premier photographer of the Pass and no historically-minded traveller can avoid seeing samples of his work in books, pamphlets and museums throughout the Crowsnest region. for a fall road trip to remember Crowsnest Highway 3 is a must-drive route that connects the Similkameen Valley, Osoyoos, and Boundary Country. Come the end of the War, the majority of CPs steam engines were worn out, run into the ground by the effort to keep Canada mobile during the War. Operations in the Mohawk ceased on March 14th, 1952. The McGillivray had been ten years shut down by that time, and so CCL was able to fling its entire workforce into expanding the Vicary underground operation and developing a new open-pit mine at nearby Racehorse Creek. Nearby is St. Annes R.C. She was originally owned by the CPR which sold it to Hillcrest Collieries, Limited. A small-time operator with limited access to the financial market in a period of economic uncertainty, Hamilton turned to the Leitch family. Under the supervision manager E.E. Little damaged by the miners strike which convulsed the Pass in 1911, and buoyed by Industrys substantial investments, Blairmore charged into the Great War. Still, any new steam locomotives it bought were oil fired, and when practicable it converted of its older locomotives to the new fuel. Though it was possible to drive all the way through the Pass by then, few among the party attempted it. 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