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Pages in category "Landslides in Canada" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Britannia Landslide Geologic collapse Britannia Mine, British Columbia West Coast 50–60 1916 February 3: Burning of Parliament Buildings: Fire Ottawa, Ontario: Central Canada 1916 July: Matheson Fire: Fire Northeastern Ontario: Central Canada c. 223 1916: Second Quebec Bridge Collapse Engineering disaster Quebec City, Quebec Central Canada 13
Frank prior to the slide. The town of Frank was founded in the southwestern corner of the District of Alberta, a subdivision of the North-West Territories, in 1901.A location was chosen near the base of Turtle Mountain in the Crowsnest Pass, where coal had been discovered one year earlier. [2]
The landslide was caused by the presence of pre-existing tectonic structures (faults and shear zones) within the southwestern slope of Johnson Ridge. [14] The lower parts of the slide scar are underlain by felsite sheets (which may have failed first) while the upper parts of the slide scar are underlain by highly jointed Paleozoic greenstone beds. [3]
The 2010 Mount Meager landslide was a large catastrophic debris avalanche that occurred in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on August 6 at 3:27 a.m. PDT (UTC-7).More than 45,000,000 m 3 (1.6 × 10 9 cu ft) of debris slid down Mount Meager, temporarily blocking Meager Creek and destroying local bridges, roads and equipment.
63 (Canadian fatalities only) 2020 Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752: Plane shootdown: Tehran, Iran: 62 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche: Avalanche: Rogers Pass, British Columbia 62 1956 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810: Plane crash Chilliwack, British Columbia 60 1915 Britannia Mine Jane Camp landslide: Landslide: Britannia Beach, British ...
Through various municipal amalgamations, both the landslide site and Arvida are now within the municipal boundaries of Saguenay. Subsequent research into the slide revealed that Saint-Jean-Vianney was in fact built directly atop the site of another landslide approximately 500 years earlier, long before any settlement had ever taken place in the ...
The earthquake caused a landslide near Mount Colonel Foster. One fortunate occurrence allowed researchers afterward to review the effects of the earthquake: an aerial photographic survey of Vancouver Island had commenced in 1946, soon after the earthquake, and these photographs were eventually studied by a geoscientist in the late 1970s. [11]