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The Moving Mountain: The Frank Slide
Published 7 months ago
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Turtle Mountain was called The Mountain That Moves by the First Nations of the Crowsnest Pass.
On April 29, 1903, the mountain moved and buried the town of Frank under 44 million cubic metres of rock. It remains Canada's deadliest landslide.
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*sources*
- Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/frank-slide
- Alberta Energy Regulator: https://ags.aer.ca/our-science/turtle-mountain/frank-slide
- Alberta Register of Historic Places: https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4665-0225
- Canadian Geographic:
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