The Deadliest Rockslide in North America - The Frank Rockslide of 1903 

Very cool

Wow!! That’s amazing that you have such incredible family history!!

Respect to your Great Grandfather!

Wow! He must have been quite a fellow!

Thank him for me

It really is. I have been through the area a few times MANY years ago. There is a haunting, somber feeling as you look over the slide. Hard to describe

Ya it’s Erie for sure

yea.. we used to camp just outside the town when I was young.. always thought about how this place was basically a tomb.

​@@brendapatterson7123are you a friend of Linda Huebner McMillan from Edmonton Alberta?

I live near both Farmington and Monongah in West Virginia. Same feelings.

Incredible

I can find it on Google maps. You just need time to go there, it's not hard or hidden.

Yes, well done. Thank you.

Right! 💁🏻‍♀️ My late husband was a high school history teacher, & took this fun/interesting approach to his trade! Not many kids booked off during his classes! There's a lesson in that alone!...

I agree. Well done. Soft music. A good speaking voice. Excellent details.

In 1903 the rock slided. Now can you make a 5 seconds Tok-tok video of it?

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Kinda like Sodom and Gomorrah...

Yes he is even sporting a mustache from that era lol

they have extensiometers on the mountain that warn of any movement.

@@demos9677 Thank you both for that interesting info. I hate all the myths (read LIES) that people put forth here. But your info is believable, like this OP's.

He did a very good job of explaining a lot of it. @@cattymajiv

I love reading comments from people who live in or lived in places are highlighted in documentaries. Thank you!

Far as I know there is still a permanent seismic measure to keep track of movement.

I love that “muck it up and make it blurry” fashion. I’m from the Appalachian coalfields in Southern WV in the US. There’s a lot of that around here mixed with that old school “high English” that only really exists here (and is mostly dying with the elderly). The town I’m from is called Fayetteville. Intended to be pronounced like it’s name sake - the Marquis de Lafayette - either phonetically or “Fee-ette”, it’s not lol. Many non-locals pronounce it “F-eye-it-Ville”, us locals pronounce it “fetvul” as quickly and close to one syllable as you can get.

I love that 🤣 guess it must be how we went from Cal-GAR-ree to CAL-gree and from TOR-on-to to TRON-no 😂😂

CRESTON BC HERE!!! :-)

@@ryananderson5202 Hey Creston! I'm up in Red Deer for work right now - finally no snow!

I have similar feelings about 2 of my own Great Uncles who died in WWI. One, Abel died at Gallipoli in 1915, which we French called the Dardanelles. The other, Jean, died in Albania in 1917. May our Great Uncles rest peacefully! 👋🇨🇦🍁

@@abelis644jj Jo Jo oh

"As a fellow Albertan, (LOL) I wandered through the debris field in the early 80's, I couldn't and still can't comprehend the massive destruction of the actual slide. As a side note the relocated hotel was renamed the Savoy and is currently teetering on the edge of restoration or destruction. Personally I think it is being torn down slowly.

As a Saskatchewanian, I'm embarrassed to say I thought Frank was in B.C. Apologies!

@@rodglen7071 no apology needed! :)

@@AutoCrete I didn’t know that about the hotel. Thanks for sharing.

@@rodglen7071what a great example of a good Canadian conversation eh? Berta born and raised I also forget how much of the Rocky Mountains 🏔️ are in Alberta too ❤ Wishing all you good Canadian kids the best

Witnesses claim to have seen you eating a Big Mac on the ridge the evening of the tragedy. You should be held accountable.

This channel is such a treasure. Congrats on finding it.

@@MoonlightCircus thanks!

It blows my mind one or two people can put out content that is higher quality than any television network ever has

​@Roddy556 with the proper camera, proper mic, and the right editing software, you can produce high-quality videos.

I agree wholeheartedly! The need for screaming. headlines, unnecessary and annoying sound and/or music is a feature of today's social norms. It's as if people can no longer sit and listen without some 'entertainment component.

The original town and all the bodies are still buried under all the rock.

@@billkikstra2225 Yes, I too get a bad feeling whenever I go that way, Turtle Mountain still moves. It's like you breathe a sigh of relief when you're on the other side.

Even today. Being able to help people in a slide like that is impossible. I pass by the Hope slide all the time. Its chilling to know that there are bodies that were never recovered.

Not only that, but it happened so fast, that it was over before anyone realized what was going on.

@@billkikstra2225same vibe I had.

Hey are you any relation to Rudy Rossi?He was married to my Aunt Ollie and they lived in Bellevue

Wasn’t there a mine explosion in hillcrest just a few years after the slide?

Talk about being extremely lucky 😱

*WoW!*

I enjoyed your reference to the Titanic movie. I guess most people have seen that movie. If not, you should watch it. It's one of the best movies ever.

“Wheres Sven?”

Great story👍🏼

Wow! He must have teared up finding that baby!!!

Where might I find more on these events? Thanks!

They literally did have warnings as they were foolishly mining into the mountain which caused the rock slide.

The bank being buried is myth

27:20 picture of the town right after the slide and the bank is on the right side of the street, completely untouched. Only the eastern edge of the town was caught in the slide. Main Street and the other 90% of the town survived, narrowly avoiding being caught in the slide.

@@robertross7666 oh well thank you, I’ve always thought differently as when I’ve gone there, there was a sign that said that!

@@LoneHowler seems I was fooled by a myth….but there is a sign there talking about the bank

@@VeeSee74 booooooooo 👎🏻

Alberta is the best part of Canada!

@@VeeSee74yes , somebody does .

Agreed!

Lololol

I went on vacation with my grandparents from Spokane Washington up through Canada summer of 1974,in their new camper. We stopped here and that's the first and only time I've seen my grandpa actually cry quietly 😢 🙏❤

I as well from Nova Scotia was through there amazing history

​@@TheSpyder1960me too. I lived in Sydney from 85-2000 even though I'm a "mainlander" 😅

Yeah, growing up in British Columbia we're very well acquainted with the Hope Slide, which happened in southern BC in the 1960s. But the Frank Slide is admittedly kind of seen more as "oh yeah, that other slide". I even had no idea that the Frank Slide was actually centred around a mine! I'm so glad to see this story being shared, and to have learned from it myself (especially as I currently live in southern Alberta, so I SHOULD know this 🥲).

@@patb5266great to see you on another channel ! I’m on Alexander’s geopolitical channel regularly and have read many great comments you make . I’m a mainlander too, currently in the Annapolis Valley.

bruh you're not native

I live in Alberta moved here from the UK , been to Frank slide a few times is a very eerie place .

​@@VeeSee74accuracy matters in historical context. Respectfully intended, as I assume was the o.p. correction.

​​@@VeeSee74 Possibly those that live in the west might. There is nothing wrong with how the OP shared the information, it is all about learning isn't it? After all, that is why we watch these well done videos!

"Midwest" is indeed an American expression. I'll take it, though, as there are far fewer provinces than states and most are huge in size. Alberta lines up roughly with Montana longitudinally. Even if Montana isn't considered Midwest, it's directly adjacent to North Dakota, the Western edge of "The Midwest". For anyone not familiar with Canadian geography, the term may give a frame of reference for a region West-of-Center, but far from The Pacific Ocean. Anywhere in Alberta readily fits this description, even if Saskatchewan and Manitoba, plus a chunk of Ontario do as well.

Albertans certainly take their 'western' status seriously as they have a great disdain for anything Toronto or Ottawa. As someone who lived in Alberta many years, and then moved to Vancouver, I would take a snide pleasure in asking my family out in Alberta how things were 'out east'.

@@perryelyod4870 Right back at ya, cowboy broke back.

I came here to assist with the pronunciation, too. _Waves from Olympia_

I'd also like to add that Kootenay is pronounced more like "KOOT-nee". (Though the Kootenay one is so common I actually just posted this same pronunciation correction on a video about a totally different subject by a different creator yesterday 😅)

Yes! I grew up watching the American channels from Spokane!

You really have to wonder about how many disasters could have been averted over the eons by simply listening to the locals. So many documentaries end up being about places the local call the mountain that walks, or moves, or has a monster sleeping under it. Then a more "advanced" and usually European group comes in, builds there, and is just totally shocked when it turns out to be a bad spot to put anything.

@MeduseldRabbit well, who would listen to the silly "savages" and here we are, watching naked and afraid they would have been sheltered and clothed sitting by the fire within days. But we're smart and civilized.... yep.

What the hell does "unheated" mean? Please check your second grade spelling book.

Unheaded.

Unheeded

Me too (old guy from England!) I love the high quality production values and the way the tale is told. Puts lots of other pseudo- dramatic channels to shame.

✨My parents immigrated from England to Calgary. Summer holidays consisted of camping trips to BC and thus I have been through that section of the Rockies several times. It was absolutely fascinating to learn the details, the names of the people, size of their family and businesses in the town. I can’t believe that there isn’t a plaque at both locations where you found the entrance and then the exit that’s survivors used to save themselves. Such a shame it makes me want to reach out to the interpretive centre and suggest that they do so in honour of all the lives lost. As I have matured into my 50s I can’t get enough of history particularly England and North America. I don’t recall learning anything much of history in school and so now I find myself at such an age learning how close Italy is to Africa, The Mediterranean sea has so many beautiful countries around it and so on and so on. I’ve been to Australia, England twice, Hawaii 4 times and LA three times. I wish & pray that one day I could see the Appalachia mountain range and meet some of the wonderful people people there! Peter Santenello has an awesome channel and just did a series on the Appalachia,,, definitely going to subscribe and binge this weekend. Thank you for your hard work and very pleasant presentation style! 🕊♥️🇨🇦🙏🏻♥️🕊

You also mispronounced Kootenay ;) But no bigs. Great video!

It's a very common problem. Joe Rogan even says it wrong 😅

I missed the part were he mispronounced Spokane, did he say, Spokaney 😂😂😂!?

Great video thanks

@@KrazyMitchAdventures why are you so mad? he just mispronounced a name not piss on a grave, mate.

Yes indeed, rather an extreme way to take up surfing. A miracle that the occupants survived.

"You all laughed and said my house needed a sturdier foundation! Well who's laughing now?"

That was some quality craftsmanship. Modern suburban houses would've most likely folded like paper

I know a woman who's car was lifted and moved by a slide near Marble Canyon, BC

Im heading to look for the other documentaries; this is exquisitely done.

❤

He really did. I'm a native Albertan and I've been to Frank countless times, and he found parts of that story that I didn't even know happened. Like the race against time to stop an unknowing train from derailing. I think because it didn't actually derail, it got left out of the accounts I was told about, but that's some nail biting stuff, and must have been heartstopping at the time.

We moved to Fernie right around 1970 and I finally left in 1999. Coal Creek was a big fascination of mine. I spent many years hiking and exploring the area.