The F&GMR was apparently left intact in case the company wanted to return, but its railbed suffered extensive damage in the May floods of 1923, and the remaining rails and trestles were salvaged in the late 30s. Sorting coal by hand was time-consuming, and building a washery, like the coking ovens themselves, was an expensive proposition, a consideration for Trough mine operators whose coal was notoriously ashy. No sooner had ruins been cleared away than May meltwaters again broke over their creeks banks, a scenario which would be repeated yet again in 1995. The washery replaced the inefficient dry picking table operation that MCC had been using since 1909. This is the south-western extremity of the Hudson Bay drainage basinRuperts Landand the cold spring-waters up-welling from a cave beneath the Ridge to create this triumvirate of lakes is on its way to the North Atlantic. On March 1st the Union Bank of Canada opened a branch office. McCarthy, had sent into the Mine via the miners escape route to estimate the damage assessed it at about $75,000, writes Frank Anderson in The Frank Slide, one of his contributions to Triumph and Tragedy in the Crowsnest Pass (Diana Wilson, ed., Heritage House Publishing, Surrey, BC, 2005). The trail is well-maintained but receives no shade so proper sun protection is recommended. To the south, 100 feet down on the bottoms of the Crowsnest River, is west Coleman, formerly Slav Town, with its wide residential streets closely monitored by the house fronts which abut the sidewalks. A few years later, hearing that the Town of Coleman had incorporated a publicly owned company to build a covered arena, Bellevue did the same. This is the Burmis bench. 5.3 8.5 An outfit called Pete and Pete Sawmill is mentioned in Crowsnest and Its PeopleMillennium Edition, and the Sartoris Lumber Company. When prohibition became the Law, back yard stills and cellar wineries mushroomed, and the secretive exchange and consumption of spirits became a way of life, a game wherein the players tested the many ways in which the Law could be circumvented, both legally and not. Alexander incorporated the Rocky Mountain Cement Company with a capitalization of $600,000. H.S. In tunnels and rooms around, dead men were found frozen in macabre postures; some still standing to their work, picks upraised, others crouched and preparing to run. Near the fork a short road branches right and leads down to the Hillcrest graveyard with its massive black marble monument dedicated to Miners who have lost their lives underground, a little plaque commemorating each deadly event in the entire Pass. (Florence) Kerr wrote that Senator Peter McLaren was an Ottawa lumber magnate whose family had made rafts of money in the mid-1800s supplying the people of Central Canada with the wooden materials with which to build their cities. The oldest relics are stone tools found on a rock ridge outside. Dunning began publishing out of the old Miner building in 1921. Hopefully the cyclist doesnt make out this greeting through a curtain of wind-whipped rain. For 1200 feet in from the mouth of the mine the seam had been left undisturbed above, reserved for the time years in the future when the economic limits of the mine would have been reached and the crews, retreating, would mine the remaining coal, leaving the works collapsing behind them. At the Alberta Federation of Labour conference held in Calgary in 1936, the little east Pass miners associations rejoined the UMWA. Unfortunately, the coke produced from Lilles coal was not the best. South beyond Universal R&R, snuggled tight to the Tracks, Devon Energy Corporations Coleman Gas Plant is the first evidence the eastbound Highway traveller sees of the engine that drives Albertas economy. Just above the yards, on the slope of Bluff Mountain, sits the concrete shell of the tipple, not worth the effort of destruction in 1958 when the works were salvaged, and now valued as a historic site. Access tunnels had to be driven into the deposits and methods of extracting and cleaning the coal devised. After the Big Strike of 1911, WCC resumed mining at Lille, but with decreasing enthusiasm. The last mention of the operation in the annual reports of B.C.s Minister of Mines was in 1968 when only rock work was being carried on the BC portion of the property. How the Picariellos got eluded the police at Coleman remains unexplained, but Sergeant J.O. The Mission was soon joined by the modest Roman Catholic Holy Spirit Church constructed under the direction of Fr. At the moment the morning shift of 237 men was hard at work underground; only 48 would return alive to their families. For a five-cent fare and a twenty-year franchise exempted from taxation, he and his backers proposed to provide 18 hours a day of 30-minute end-to-end service. Arkoff lurched out past the prostrate Constables and made it a few metres off down Front Street before sinking to the sidewalk and dying. You either love it or hate it. The McGillivray had been ten years shut down by that time, and so CCL was able to fling its entire workforce into expanding the Vicary underground operation and developing a new open-pit mine at nearby Racehorse Creek. With the east Pass booming, McLaren decided to move his operations thence. Church organizations and moral reformers such as the evangelistic William Aberhart demanded the complete and immediate eradication of demon rum. Availing themselves of Albertas new plebiscite law, prohibitionists badgered Premier Arthur Lewis Sifton into setting July 21st, 1915 as the date upon which to assess Albertans temperate sentiments. The companys mandate was to operate the Lille mines and purchase other prospects. Anything could go wrong in a coal mine. Then disaster. Should the operations be amalgamated, suggested Jewitt, International would command a 60% share of the new entity, while Hillcrest-Mohawk and McGillivray would hold 20% each. Because the company ownership of towns was permitted neither by the provincial government of Alberta nor by the Federal territorial government before it, and because there were, before the War, a dozen independent mining companies in the immediate area to which a man might sell his labour, there was a much greater degree of freedom of association. Besides the Army, another group which the Great War brought to Blairmore was the Royal North-West Mounted Police. When the coal seam petered out and the mine reached the end of its working life, these pillars were removed beginning at the farthest edges of the mine, allowing the roof to cave in behind the retreating workers. Just north of Laurier, WA, in British Columbia Canada where BC-395 and BC Highway 3 intersect, Highway 3 starts heading west. The highway reduces to a two-lane undivided road and the Crowsnest Highway ends 113km (70mi) later at the Trans-Canada Highway in Medicine Hat. Beyond, the Highway, eager to get down onto tiny Police Flats, cuts through the tip of the spur. With the Wars conclusion and the substitution of oil for coal, Blairmores mining industry slipped into retirement when West Canadian Collieries closed its offices about a year after the last shift had punched out of the companys Greenhill mine, April 30th, 1957. On the 31st of that month Hill incorporated Hillcrest Coal and Coke Company with a capitalization of $750,000 and a mandate to mine coal, make coke, operate a railroad and found a town. Reported on 2010/01/06 by the CBC in an article posted on its web-page http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/01/06/calgary-frank-slide-monitoring.html All, of course, were dependent to some extent on the Mine. 6.2 km return, 900 m elevation gain. It stretches 1,161 km (721 mi) across the southern portions of both provinces, from Hope, British Columbia to Medicine Hat, Alberta, providing the shortest highway connection between the Lower Mainland and southeast Alberta through the Canadian Rockies. The forced resolution of the 1909 work stoppage led only to the Big Strike of 1911 and increased animosity between owners and workers. The frenetic activity in the tiny frontier town attracted the attention of the N-WMP who detached a single constable from D Division at Fort Macleod and sent him to take up permanent residence in Blairmore before the end of the year, 1901. Some experts believe its just a matter of time before another major landslide occurs. Under the managing direction of Fleutot a permanent portal was created and in 1904 production commenced, the output being loaded into CP gondolas right from the mines mouth. Its an issue providing a reliable data stream to the base of the mountain, where the monitoring team has an operation base. Frank, founded with so much whoop-la, sighed in resignation, sent its workers elsewhere to work, salvaged what it could from the avalanche-endangered river flats where it grew up and bedded down where it is today, a dormitory for Bellevue and Blairmore. Roosevelts policies in the United States beginning to drag that country out of the Great Depression and sparking economic activity in Canada, the company acquired 756,836 shares held in trust by the Canadian Bank of Commerce, a further 55,000 held by the Sherbrooke Trust Company. As part of a loop through Nelson BC starting in Creston, this climb starts it off with a bang. Finding the trailhead to the Turtle Mountain hike. The grief-tempered prosperity that War brought to Blairmore served to mask the changing times in the coal industry. The Canadian Consolidated Coal Company re-organized itself as Franco-Canadian Collieries (FCC) in March of 1914 and re-opened the Mine. Maple Leaf Coal Company, While WCC was emplacing its considerable surface plant in the late 19-aughts, another outfit moved into the locality, attracted by an exposed seam of coal up on the bench above, and to the east of, the WCC operation. Producing 60,000 tons of coal in 1904, Lilles mine promised a fine return on investment. Jewitt valued it at $3.5 millions. It is perhaps a typical western Canadian small-town museum of the late 20th Century, dioramas largely created and maintained by volunteers with more or less expertise and artistic sense. South of Police Flats, where Byron Creek debouches into the Crowsnest, the brothers found an attractive exposure on the bank of Byron Creek, an minor tributary to the Crowsnest draining Hillcrest Mountain. Recognizing a ready market, the East Kootenay Power and Light Company, Limited, (EKP) strung transmission lines from its little hydro-electric plant on Bull River and at 11:25 in the morning of June the 2nd, 1922, closed the switch that completed the circuit and began offering power to the people of the east Pass. Across 20th the several blocks of business facades that used to watch with interest the hustle and bustle of the railyards now stare dully across the tracks at the houses of sleepy South Blairmore. Along with the Austrian Brick Works, it closed its doors in 1914. Proposing that either the companies merge or that his MCC buy up International, in the autumn of 1926 Campbell approached Flumerfelt. The wooden bridge which carried Front over the head of the Bellevue ravine was so scorched that it was removed and the defile there filled with mine waste. Hillcrest-Mohawk laboured on through WWII, drawing only a lucky few former Hillcrest employees across the valley of the Crowsnest to mine the Mohawk of work in the surface plant. Budd and W.M. Dying in the Street, Downtown Coleman, although today as lively as a cemetery the night after Halloween, has not always been so. Wm. Running Rails into the Pass, Since the head of the Government Railway Exploration Survey, Sanford Fleming, pronounced it so in 1872, engineers had appreciated that the Crowsnest Pass was the ideal railway corridor through the Canadian Rockies. Chas. A third hotel soon opened and was booked solid. Seeking to control the price CNP Coal was charging CM&S for coke, Warren quickly convinced International to refurbish the newest 14 of its battery of old beehive coking ovens which had stood cold since the collapse of the metals market in 1918, and fire up a 70,000-ton sample for Trail to assess. According to users from AllTrails.com, the best place to hike in Crowsnest Provincial Park is Crowsnest Ridge via Phillips Pass Road, which has a 4.3 star rating from 116 reviews. Alice Cameron and Nettie McIntyre taught school in a vacant room above the pool hall. Near the outflow he erected a little shackhis sanitariumoutside of which he or one of his employees would heat the waters for people who felt themselves in need of a restorative soak. And starting from Burnt Flats, the ascent is 23.1 km long. Downtown Coleman isnt much, really. By 1905 the Hotel stood alone, hoping that enough fishermen would book rooms to make another season worthwhile. In the early morning hours of Saturday, January 9th, 1965, a snow avalanche blocked the Hope-Princeton Highway, in the Nicolum Valley, just outside of Hope. It was the place to live in the east Pass. After Coalhurst, the highway reaches Westview DriveW, which provides access to West Lethbridge. Even the Town abandoned Coal when it instituted its own natural gas utility in the early 60s. By that time CCL had refurbished the former Internationals big tipple at Coleman and soon the Bellevue facility was redundant, its cleaning plant used only in urgencies as the rest of the infrastructure was dismantled and salvaged. Though the Service was only established after the Dominion transferred the administration of natural resources to the province on October 31, 1936, the history of forestry in the east Pass goes back to the terrible year of 1910 when wild fires burned off half the timber on southern Albertas eastern slopes. To monitor the situation and, hopefully, prevent a re-occurrence, Ottawa set up the Rocky Mountain Forest Reserves and outlined the Crowsnest Forest in this area, naming Pincher Creek as the local headquarters. Haultain, premier of the North-West Territories. Some eye witnesses thought they were watching the birth of a volcano, for the sparking caused by the friction within the churning rubble glowed fiery. The Highways alignment through the devastation is the legacy of a make work project dating from 1932, and makes it only about a five-kilometre journey from Frank to Bellevue. with the booze. The infliction of prohibition on July 1st, 1916, curbed the rougher amusements, likely ensuring the success of the Lyric Theatre and the Rex which Mr. and Mrs. Coles opened in 1917. The merchants and service providers moved, too, of course, and the demand for construction lumber kept The Mill howling day and night.9 Gladstone Creek was dammed to flood a log-dump and hold a reserve of water for the mill wheel. The suggestion made sense: the companies were working the same seams, were in close proximity to each other, and were both suffering drastically reduced sales. This is Aalto. Slowly the author is writing his way eastward into Alberta, the City of Lethbridge being the last added. Faced with decreased government patronage, the Coal Operators were more open to compromise and finally, on November 16th a truce was reached which saw the UMWA men return to work. Porter compressed air-powered thermos bottle locomotives running on 28-pound rail gauged to 36 inches. Compression of the edge of the North American Plate caused stress fractures which eventually buckled and heaved up to form the Rockies. Tragically, during that escapade in the rocks special Constable Nicolas Kyslik was mistaken in the morning mist for one of the culprits and fatally shot by his own partner. The Railways line, the road and the eastern end of Frank were covered with broken rock. Prohibition became Law in Alberta on July 1st of 1916. In fact, reclining at its ease on the Rivers escarpment, the town seemed to look forward to another day of retirement, watching the price of its real estate inch ever upwards. It looks as if it should be condemned and torn down, but with no pressing need for the lot, the old clapboard structure will likely continue to startle the eye until rot or fire work their wiles. Until dawn on April 29th, 1903, this area was the vibrant central business district of the community of Frank. In 1907 West Canadian Collieries moved its offices to Blairmore and began developing its Blairmore South mine. Flemings second favourite, the Yellowhead Pass, was chosen for the Mainline. I, your good guide, do confess that I havent seen the collection in a few years. Climbing onto the low interlacustrine ridge the No. Pinkney, acquired Western Mercantile in 1908. Only when the coal in the stack of galleries was free could it be gently drained through the chutes and rolled out of the mine in horse-drawn rail cars. Nicholson of the APP held overall responsibility for the hunt qnd was probably grateful for the assistance of Inspector J. McDonald and his RCMP contingent. At the time it was called Sentry siding and today, with its weathered livestock loading chutes, it is Sentinel, serving the once-busy Atlas Lumber (Alberta) Limited sawmill, in the autumn of 2006 nothing but a burned-over ruin being wrecked out in its huge, dusty dry sort yard. Negligence, roared the Union, and resentments hardened. It stretches 1,161 km (721 mi) across the southern portions of both provinces, from Hope, British Columbia to Medicine Hat, Alberta, providing the shortest highway connection between the Lower Mainland and southeast Alberta through the Canadian Rockies. Partially to suppress the dust, but mostly to separate contaminants from the coal and thereby increase its value, in 1934 WCC added a wet washery to the works complex. Robertson in Fernie The Early Years 1897-1908 (Ghostrider Productions, Fernie, 1997), enacted the statute of Canada clause in the British North America Act which allows it to appropriate jurisdiction for itself over provincial railways by declaring that a proposed railroad would be to the nations benefit. East, down the tracks just out of our view, is Coleman, first of the Eastern Passsthe Troughstowns, all of which were built by King Coal. Bidding him adieu, Bassoff and Arkoff proceeded to party their way eastward from town to town down the Pass, sported for an evening in Blairmore and then went to Bellevue to dance the night away. In 1912, though, the project was resuscitated by the locally-influential W.A. crowsnest highway elevation profilehow old is junior afolabi salokun. (Enrico) Pozzi, Blairmores foremost builder12, the companys office building was completed in 1920, constructed of bricks both made in Blairmore and scavenged from the ruined Frank smelter. Since 1916 the puritanical element in Alberta society, unhappy with the obvious ease with which some of their neighbours still obtained strong drink and increasing in relative strength as thousands of men were sent off to war, had been pressing Edmonton to amend the law and declare a total prohibition. With that loss Colemans sidewalks started to curl at the edges, the roof shingles that exuberant Zephyrus removed remained missing. That real estate almost got converted into insurance pay-outs in the summer of 2003 when for a few weeks spanning July and August the great Lost Creek Fire threatened to erupt out of the valleys to the south of Colman and leap upon the Town. Years of seemingly endless arguing in U.S. courts failed to persuade Americans to abide by the provisions of the Canada-United States Free Trade Act of 1988. The survivors were in serious trouble. There the coal was sorted and cleaned by hand and dumped into a short train of small gondolas which were eased by cable down the face of the scarp on rails laid on the slope. 3 maintains the high ground to cut through the communitys newer northern neighbourhood as 20th Avenue, Colemans strip: gas stations, Vitos and Popiels family restaurants, a fast food outlet and, perched on the edge of the escarpment on the south, the new Valley View Motel. Though there was plenty of coal, there were few customers relative to the number of competitors. Bohi and L.S. Unfortunately, the San was ideally suited to neither philosophy, for the constant traffic on the railway disturbed those seeking peace, and the fresh-air was heavy with coal dust from the Greenhill operation only three upwind miles away. Until CP hacked its roadbed into the latters edge late in 1897 and the Alberta Department of Public Works bull-dozed the proto-No. On April 10th of 1957, though, operations were suspended, putting 194 workers off the job. The Post Office finally closed in 1938, officially ushering Passburg into the realm of memory. Once at the top, you will have magnificent views of the valley including Crowsnest Lake, Island Lake, Sentry Mountain . While the hotel was rising, directly across 20thVictoriaAvenue work commenced on more company buildings. This privilege was abused, of course, by both the permitter and the permittee. Driving a 3,000 foot-long adit into a six-foot-wide seam exposed at the base of the Byron Creek escarpment about a half a mile from the Crowsnest River, the partners laid a spur from the Crows Nest Line to their little sorting and loading tipple, and through the recession of 1908, dug their coal and concluded that their time was wasted. After World War Two the exodus of people and houses left Passburg with but one inhabitable building in 1956 when it, too, was moved into Bellevue. One of mayor William Knight and the councils first acts was to declare May Day a civic holiday, and rename Victoria Avenue Tim Buck Boulevard for the secretary of the Communist Party of Canada / Labour Progressive Party. In the Trough, with its tortuously contorted rock strata, promising seams could suddenly disappear at a faultdid the seam move up or down relative to the mine, and how far? The. One Thousand people were living in Hillcrest by 1914, the Union Hotel home to 40. At the apex of its career WF&S employed no more than 10 men, some of them being coopers. In easy retirement, the community spends its time painting its houses, driving school buses back and forth to the Comprehensive High School in Coleman, tending their commercial greenhouses and laying awake some nights trying to distinguish between the rumble of a CP train on the Crows Nest Line and the restless heart of Turtle Mountain. Hillcrest-Mohawk, though its enormous underground mine was nearing exhaustion, possessed a good tipple, contracted buyers for large quantities of coal and a profitable stripping operation in progress at Tent Mountain. Following Pozzis lead, on November 30th, 1906, W.J. The property was owned by one J.C. Drewry. The slack was then dumped into a water-filled vat in which the ash and other impurities sank, allowing the clean coal be skimmed off and sent to the coking ovens. Meanwhile, workers in the coal fields at Lethbridge in the District of Alberta had joined the United Mine Workers of America. Smuggling alcohol became big business in Canada when the United States adopted the Volstead Act on January 16th, 1919. Come February of 1908 16 men were hard at work under the direction of manager A.R. By the spring of 1955 the salvors had finished with the coke ovens, leaving only the bricks for souvenir hunters and do-it-yourselfers to scavenge. Blairmore tonight, Destruction lingered close to Blairmore for a few tense weeks in the middle of the summer of 2003 when the voracious Lost Creek Fire roared in the valleys beyond the ski hill ridge to the south, wreathing Blairmore in smoke and showering it with ash, a promissory of its intention to soon be raging in the streets. Early in 1951 Internationals directors offered $300,000 for McGillivray, lock, stock and barrel. crowsnest highway elevation profile. Until not long ago, the Old Road used to carry travellers the six kilometres east along the valleys bottom down to Blairmore. In 1935 it began to entertain overtures of amalgamation from the principals in Hillcrest Collieries, Limited, across the River at Hillcrest. The Town was happy to donate two additional lots to accommodate the enlarged structure and in March of 1923 Watson and Abercrombie began construction. By then, however, the company was in the same straits as the rest of the Trough coal producers, and made repeated applications to join with International Coal and Coke, McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke and Hillcrest-Mohawk Collieries to form Coleman Collieries, Limited. Detective J.D. Teeing off from the Highway southward, 129th Street cuts across the former Greenhill yards now being colonized by a tiny subdivision, leaps the little Crowsnest River on a 1983 concrete deck bridge to carry traffic into Blairmores CBD and continue on over the Railways tracks to get into South Blairmore. . Hedley Vicars Bulyea assent to The Coal Mines Act 1906. This act addressed the issue of children and women working in coal mines, and laid out basic safety precautions and operating procedures to be enforced by provincial inspectors. From Fort Macleod, head west on the Crowsnest Highway (Hwy 3) to Lundbreck, at the junction of the Cowboy Trail (Hwy 22). Leitch again resorted to non-union labour to supply the locomotives and Trail smelter furnaces of its main customer, the CPR, but the untrained workers were inefficient and production was poor. Crowsnest Lake, Immediately beyond the rail overpass, the Highway slips down a few metres and out across little Island Lake on a partly natural causeway. Salvagers, the May floods of 1923, 1948 and 1995, and the Highways re-alignment of the 1970s, have erased all obvious traces of Passburg. All the mines on the Alberta side were closed by the end of the 20th century as cheaper and safer open-pit mines opened on the British Columbia side of the pass. Jobs were precious and even though there was a good deal of sympathy for the Winnipeg strikers, the reality was that if a man could find a job, he took it. By 1907 the denizens of the Alberta side of the Pass were exasperated enough with CP that several local businessmen provincially incorporated the Crows Nest and Prairie Electric Railway Company which they envisioned as running a fifty-kilometre-long inter-urban streetcar system from Sentinel, at the eastern end of Crowsnest Lake, to Pincher Creek, the Prairie end. As it was buying International shares, CM&S was also gathering shares of McGillivray Creek through the offices of president Campbell: 800,000 worth $280,000 by the end of 1934, and began to promote the idea of amalgamating the two collieries. 2 mine well started on the Flats, Dr. Irving Bell, the owner of a Metz motor car, was in residence in Passburg, the Nastasi brothers Joseph and James had come from Coleman and Bellevue to build their bakery, and the New Passburg Hotel was welcoming guests. Before her lay the valley, patches of woodland prairie amid a light forest of cottonwoods and evergreens climbing up the lower slopes of Turtle Mountain, the scenes enormous backdrop. At least 81 people died, the exact total remaining unknown because no-one knows exactly how many workers were in Poupoure and McVeighs construction camp on the flats by the rail linefive, reports the Cranbrook Herald of April 30th, including J. McVeighor how many guests might have been staying with the families in the lost eastern end of the hamlet. It is located partially in the southeast part of British Columbia as well and is the southernmost highway and rail route going through the Canadian Rockies. In August of 1896, the year old W.S. Auloff waived his extradition rights and was escorted back to Blairmore and straight to trial. Anxiety had a way of reducing prices, so it was to the Companys own advantage to cause inconvenience. School classes were quickly moved there from the pool hall. Like Lille, Bellevue grew up around a West Canadian Collieries (WCC) coal mine. The stack, likely for insurance purposes, was demolished in the 1990s. The seams were faulted, but nearly level. The Village administration moved into the old Union Bank building and in 1977 a new fire hall was completed. It was, of course, a nasty affair. From the day of his arrival, January 21, 1882, Lees concentrated on the lumbering end of the enterprise, leaving the grist mill to deteriorate. The No. The majority of motorcycle accidents that result in injury or death - in 2017 it was 42 per cent - are the result of improper steering . (Enrico) Pozzi of Blairmore to construct the smelter in the spring of 1905. For years that lack soured relations between labour and management and escalated many a minor disagreement into a work stoppage. To access specific communities along The Highway, refer to the INDEX MAP or select from the list below. A few score twisty metres passing evergreend acreages alive with kids and horsesthe vestiges of River Bottom a casual community which dates back to the Valleys mining erathe Old Road terminates at a T intersection with 219th Streetthe Hillcrest-Bellevue Roadwhere travellers can turn either right, cross the River and pedal up to Hillcrest on 9th Avenue, or turn left and come up to and across the Highway to enter Bellevue. Into the radical niche left by the departing IWW stepped the OBU. Sphincters tightened again on February 5th, 1975, when a particularly strong tremor rattled dishes and nerves in the Trough. Police waggoneers improved the track out from Fort Macleod, making such a road of it that T. Clarke, the diarist in the group of four constables who travelled from the Fort to Crowsnest Lake by democrat buggy just to fish in August of 1896, described the trip as comfortable. By 1910 the track had been well enough beaten that a cyclist could probably have made it from Lethbridge to Creston, and by 1912 was carrying enough traffic to be called a trunk road, at least from Lethbridge to Fernie. Though production in the Trough as a whole peaked in 1913, the famous market downturn that began around Thanksgiving that year dragged the industry from the heights that it would never scale again. The Wayside Chapel, standing on the corner where 227th Street intersects the Highway, can seat all of 14 folks in cozy confinement. Blasting tended to reduce lump size dramatically; a problem for the companys sales department, but of no concern to the miner to whom a ton was a ton. At the end of the teens the Tallon Peak coal measures were taken over by Maple Leaf which mined them from the other side of the mountain. Unfortunately the school district closed M.D. . The Crowsnest Highway is an east-west highway in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. 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