What the records say
- When
- 4 Mar 1910
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 51.28° N, 117.51° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche.
Summary
The Rogers Pass avalanche buries a group of Canadian Pacific Railway workers clearing tracks in the Selkirk Mountains at Rogers Pass (British Columbia), making it the worst snowslide accident in Canadian history.
1910 Rogers Pass avalanche
Disaster in British Columbia, Canada
The 1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche killed 58 men clearing a railroad line just outside of Revelstoke in Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia on March 4, 1910. It is Canada's worst avalanche disaster.
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