Sunday, November 10, 2019

Rogers Pass

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rogers_Pass_Mount_Carroll_BC_1887.jpg
1887. British Columbia. The railroad needed a pass to get across Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Pass_%28British_Columbia%29

Rogers Pass (elevation 1,330 m or 4,360 ft) is a high mountain pass through the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia used by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Trans-Canada Highway. The pass is a shortcut across the "Big Bend" of the Columbia River from Revelstoke on the west to Donald, near Golden, on the east. The pass was discovered on May 29, 1881, by Major Albert Bowman Rogers, a surveyor working for the Canadian Pacific Railway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910_Rogers_Pass_avalanche

1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche.

The 1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche killed 62 men clearing a railroad line near the summit of Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia on March 4, 1910. It is Canada’s worst avalanche disaster.

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