Frank Slide

On the edge of the valley of the Crowsnest River stands Turtle Mountain which was known to local First Nations people as "the mountain that moves". In the early morning of April 29th, 1903 a huge slab of limestone "moved" and thirty million cubic metres of rock crashed into the valley bottom. Part of the town of Frank, the rail line, and the entire surface plant of the Canadian-American Coal and Coke Company were destroyed. An estimated seventy people lost their lives.