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I remember driving with my family through the slide area shortly after it happened.

I earned my bachelor's in Civil Engineering in 1986, but never learned about this disaster.

Please note that while footage of the accident is available on line, I have chosen not to include it here out of respect for the athlete and his family. Although The Maple Chronicles deals with dark subject matter, I do not believe in including gory or graphic content.

Stompin Tom wrote a song about this

Apparently my mother and father were dating at the time and were out on a small boat below the bridge when the collapse happened. They weren't directly below and weren't hit by anything but there was a huge whirlpool that they almost got sucked into. They managed to escape (making it possible for me to exist) but it was harrowing.

Great video! Keep them coming

Every time I drive over the second narrows bridge I get the chills from remembering it

This bridge was built before the Port Man bridge so it could not have been the last link in the Trans Canada Highway.

Its like a limestone mine that mined itself. If the local indigenous people think the mountain is moving best not to build a town there.

Those miners were invincible man. That is incredible. This was just a bad place to be, it was always gonna happen sooner or later..also, why did they rebuild houses in the SAME PLACE!? Why not just move over a mile🤦🏼‍♂️

Useless fact: This happened the day I was born

Thanks for doing another video about the Crowsnest Pass! Glad to see the history of where I grew up being profiled. For a small place that so few seem to know about, it is rewarding to see videos like this. Growing up there, I remember the Frank Slide Interpretive Center being built...Fished and tubed the Crowsnest River so many times. The video is quite concise and clear. So glad to see this. Thanks again.

wow, never even heard about this before. great video

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Very Good Video👍

Hope-less, BC. You know why? Because the mountains block out the sun 90% of the day.

I visit St. Thomas weekly and it's kinda fucked up how proud they are of trains... It's known as "rail city" with no mention of jumbo.... They have train monuments ffs

I've had about Jumbo because I live in St. Thomas, Ontario. But I had no idea that you lived a painful life. May that poor old elephant Rest in Peace.

...........thanks for covering this, I remember when this happened as clear as day, we used to vacation in the Shuswap Lake area every summer so passing through this slide area was a yearly occurrence for our family. I always found it to be really eerie passing through and one summer shortly after it happened I remember seeing the wreckage of the tanker truck (one of the vehicles caught in the slide) lying on the side of the old highway. Years later when I was much older I was driving back from Nelson BC and decided to stop at the viewpoint to have a look. It was around 1:00am in the morning and the road at that time was virtually deserted. I pointed my car to the mountain and got out and sat on the hood just looking up at the huge scar the slide had created. It was a beautiful clear night and the full moon seemed to cast such a beautiful light illuminating the whole valley. So eerie just me there alone with the wind. On a lighter note I couldn't help but chuckle to myself when watching this video and noticing that they had installed charging stations at the viewpoint. I found it amusing that with the current infrastructure for charging stations being sadly inadequate that someone in their infinite wisdom thought it important enough to install them in a point of interest viewpoint. Just had to laugh at that. :)

Now called The Iron Workers Memorial Bridge 🙏🏻💙🙏🏻

I did 70% of my senior report presentation on Jumbo. All of my teachers were sobbing by the end.

I was 21 years old, and living in Calgary when Ng was arrested. I was actually in The Bay store when it happened. I had no idea, and saw nothing. I only found out when it was reported on the local news. Of course, at the time, I had no idea who he was, but as the case became known, I got a little obsessed.

Such an AWEsome creaure. The world was left lesser at its departure.

What a disaster

The greyhound bus driver was unable to turn around; he had to back his bus a sizeable distance to the (now gone) Sumallo lodge.

How is ng still breathing California inmates needs to step it up poke this guy already

There was no bomb people. We're talking about Gander, Newfoundland. ICE, ICE baby. I have been to the Silent Memorial site many times which is eerie as there are still pieces of the plane there and the trees have never regrown.

i watched a documentry about him when i was like 5 and didnt know what they where talking about since i came in 10 minutes before the end thank you for finnally filling in that massive blank space in my ememory, also is it true he was walked accross a large bridge and nearly collapsed it?

If only he had a dentist on hand, his story would be very different…😢

Right after Frank slide

I didn't know know jumbo was named after a elephant.

Good stuff. Thanks for your hard work.

typical Canadian: debris field 200ft deep and 2 km wide. Sure, cant just say 60m deep and 2km wide. Weirdos.

Was there a couple of years ago. Was weird seeing a electric car charging station located there.

It was the main highway from the Okanagan to Vancouver, so I had travelled the original highway & remembered that the highway was closed off for a season until they could build a new road on top of the slide debris so when I went again (a 2 year span later) it was on top of this sea of rock.(that used to be thick forest) >The planes crashes had nothing to do with the slide...they just happened in that area at a much later date. Got to learn to fly over the mountains. Some boulders were the size of a single story house. Neh. Stuff happens.

Good video except you have a few second video of a modern car at the 1 minute, 30 second mark which does not fit the story. This slide happened in 1965 not in 2005, so why is a modern car in your video? Psst, that was a dumb decision... and weakens your video!

A good documentary but the dialogue needs to be slowed down a little

And you can charge your electric car there. Oi

I remember a song as a kid. In the chorus was something about “the Hope Princeton highway will ne’er be the same”

I often drive up to the Hope Slide to watch meteor showers as its a very dark and peaceful place. However, theres always that eerie sadness knowing that some were never rescued.

My father missed the avalanche that closed the highway by 1/2 hour. I was born exactly 9 months later. Thanks Hope slide, I owe you my life.

Lived in Hope less. Rambo was also filmed there.

Great video!

Think about such things everytime I go by the Memorial while on my way over.

I was Sim Flying and flew past the mountain and felt sad for the horror of it coming down on those parked. So glad the bus turned around and was spared.

I worked double shifts in the Pine Woods Lodge restaurant in Manning Park after the slide. Other staff had gone to Hope the night before. I was 17 years old and working for Rene and Helen Pelletier! Long time ago but I still remember it.

@7:23 I visited that slide for the first time with my friends family a decade ago... And one of my friends (My best friend Keith's older brother)'s name is Christopher J. Cormier. Exact name of one of the pilots who had lost their lives there. Was an incredibly unexpected and eerie moment. This is a true story. Ill never forget it. We were on our way for a camping trip at Manning Park. Anyways, I subbed. best of luck with your channel. Mike, Langley BC.

These are awesome videos! I hope you can keep them coming. They’re so interesting and informative. Great job!

At 2:50 it was actually my brother and wife that realized what had happened first. They were driving west bound to Hope and were dodging rocks bouncing around them. They said that the road was shaking so bad that they didn't think that they were going to make it. They flagged down a cop and reported the slide and to get emergency equipment up there. If they were about 20 seconds slower, they would have been part of the fatalities. He said that if they were in a full size car they wouldn't have made it for dodging the boulders crossing in front of them. They were driving a small 2 door Capri, I don't even know who made them. They really thought that they weren't going to make it. The cop escorted them to the police station to fill out the report. The car did sustain some damage dents from rocks hitting the car, a cracked windshield and a broken headlight. My brother said the roar of it was deafening. At the time of the slide a small Cesena was flying over it and was actually sucked out of the air and crashed. All that was left of it was half of the wing, the landing gear and a part of the fuselage. The plane looked like it went through a crusher. About 3 years later the plane was still there, it was left as a memorial and there was a plack at the lookout.