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worst avalanche in canada’s history

What Revelstoke, BC’s Most Deadly Disaster Can Teach Us 110 Years Later

On March 4, 1910, Canada had its worst avalanche disaster in history. The 1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche killed 62 men clearing a railroad line near the summit of Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia near the town of Revelstoke. This is the accident summary, provided by Wikipedia: On the evening of March 4 work crews were dispatched to clear a big […]

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Martin Kuprianowicz | March 4, 2020
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