Frank Slide Disaster

The Frank Slide occurred in 1903 in the village of Frank, Alberta. Frank, Alberta is situated in the Rocky Mountain Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. Frank became a town in 1901. There was a coal mine at Frank in the mountain called Turtle Mountain.

In 1903, Turtle Mountain came smashing down on the town of Frank. A lot of people died in this slide and it was all over with in a matter of seconds. There are rumors of ghosts frequenting the area because not all of the bodies were recovered.

I visited the site of the Frank Slide in 1999 and then again in 2004. I was saddened that such an event had taken place. I had never seen anything like it. Huge boulders sitting everywhere you looked and you could just imagine that there is a still bodies buried underneath it. It was something that I will always remember forever.

While I was there, I took some photographs of the rocks and the destruction. When I was there I saw a shadow of a miner on the rocks and it looked like he was holding a pick. You can see him if you look really close at the photograph.

It was kind of eerie visiting Frank Slide. It kind of gives you goose bumps when you realize that what you are standing on is the remains of a town that was buried in about 90 seconds. It just goes to show you that anything could happen with absolutely no warning whatsoever. Nobody could have been prepared for the devastation of Frand Slide.