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. [1] It is Canada's worst avalanche disaster.

Mar 4, 2021 · Revelstoke, B.C., is home to Canada's worst avalanche disaster. On March 4, 1910, an avalanche killed 62 men while they were clearing snow from the railway on Rogers Pass, which runs through...

The Rogers Pass Avalanche happened on March 4, 1910 at the Rogers Pass, in the Selkirk Mountains near the town of Revelstoke, British Columbia at approximately 11:00 pm PST. [1] It happened after the train crew were clearing snow from the tracks and an avalanche unexpectedly came down on top of them.

A massive avalanche on March 4, 1910 had killed 58 railway workers who were clearing the site of an earlier slide that had plummeted down the opposite side of the valley. Everyone except one member of the engine crew was killed.

Mar 4, 2016 · In the late afternoon of March 4th, an avalanche came down the slopes of Mount Cheops, burying the mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the summit. With the mainline blocked, a passenger train bound for Vancouver was forced to wait at the Rogers Pass Station, just east of the avalanche.

Mar 4, 2020 · The Rogers Pass snowslide took the lives of 58 men, and the tragedy continues to resonate, especially here in the mountains, where the risk of avalanches is still a common threat for travellers and back-country enthusiasts.

Mar 7, 2015 · An abandoned railway line is all that remains at the summit of the Rogers Pass to mark the spot where 58 men lost their lives in what's believed to be Canada's deadliest avalanche.

Mar 3, 2010 · The storm that created the conditions for the killer avalanche of March 4, 1910, was a monster but it wasn't that unusual, says John Woods, author of Snow War — An illustrated history of Rogers Pass, Glacier National Park, BC.

Mar 3, 2009 · Sometime during the day on March 4th, a snow avalanche descended Cheops Mountain into the valley at the Summit of Rogers Pass. It covered the CPR railway. A crew of men and a locomotive-driven snow blower were dispatched to clear the tracks.

Roger Pass, British Columbia Avalanche 1910. A transcontinental railroad link to eastern Canada was British Columbia's price for joining Confederation. The daunting task of finding a usable route through the Rockies and Columbia Mountain Ranges …