Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. At 4 am on April 29, 1903, the 600 residents of Frank in Alberta, ...

The Frank Slide remains one of the most sobering and fascinating chapters in Canadian history. This rockslide reshaped the ...

The Alberta government, during the mid-1970s, created two designations that protect, for posterity, the Frank Slide’s “sea of debris” and its infamous profile as an internationally known cemetery. The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo shows the remains of the historic Frank Slide, Canada's deadliest rockslide that killed up to 90 people in 1903.

Turtle Mountain let loose a rock slide of epic proportions which wiped out the small mining town of Frank, Alta., an area which is known today as Frank Slide 113 years ago. In Calgary courts: Calgary ...

The first phase of twinning of Alberta's Highway 3, a plan frequently delayed, is finally set to kick off in spring 2024. That's a long-awaited development for proponents of economic development in ...