The Dypolt family, however, chose to build their general store on the new townsite, and did the Roman Catholics with their Sacred Heart (Corpus Christi) Church, which was dedicated on November 13th, 1910. The owners called in the police to maintain order and heads were cracked all round. In 1959, citizens rehabilitated the Hillcrest Cemetery which had become a wild forest glade, and today a dignified cairn has replaced the humble wooden head markers that were originally used to record the names of the dead. Though necessary to keep the mine from caving in, timber-work was expensive in time and material. Gone is the Palm Caf, a favourite hot-spot during the 20s, gone is the movie theatre. Though its economy, too, was straitened, Blairmore became the envy of the Trough, riding relatively high on the back of government spending. In the morning shadows of Turtle Mountain he discovered a cold spring of sulphurous, milky-white water burbling to the surface. Meanwhile, the general contractors for the surface plant, Edmund Disney and Richard Wesley Johnson, raised a tipple with a 3,000 ton storage-capacity and two 5x40 foot picking tables. Not all of the Troughs history can be held captive in the dark cells of the museum, of course. Across the Trough to the north Crowsnest Mountain stands in solitude. 3 now runs approximately where the loading spur lay. An agreement was struck and on December 4th of 1951 which saw Coleman Collieries, Limited, (CCL) incorporated under the Alberta Companies Act with a 1.21 million dollar capitalization in $1.00 shares, the majority of which were bought up by CPs Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. In a time when owners resisted spending money on what they considered frivolous luxuries for their men, by 1907 International had, as noted by Lorry Felske in her research papers The Coal Mining Industry in the Crowsnest Pass (Alberta Culture, 1985), built a commodious, steam heated wash house with hot showers, lockers for street clothes, and a surgery. With 1930 came the Depression and on August first WCC introduced a two week on, two week off schedule for all workers. Refusing to be party to no strike agreements with companies and governments for the duration of the War, it was branded subversive and hounded out of Canada in 1918 on the pretext that its executives were aliens: to wit, Americans. Some of the backers got cold feet and on June 7th, 1921, Bellevue Collieries liquidated itself, its assets immediately being transferred to Mohawk Bituminous Collieries which had been organized specifically to receive them by some of Bellevue Collieries original principals. At sunrise on Wednesday, May 2nd, 1923, only six months and three days before Albertans sagaciously voted to abandon prohibition,6 the pair were executed by hanging at Fort Saskatchewan prison near Edmonton. [2], The Crowsnest Highway continues through the Kootenay Pass on the Salmo-Creston Highway, a stretch known colloquially as the Kootenay Skyway, or Salmo-Creston Skyway. Was the coal cleanlow in incombustible ash and polluting elements such as sulphurand of high thermal potential? Occupying yards of column inches of type in the first few years issues of the Journal were stories chronicling the labour unrest prompted by the drastic cutbacks at International, and the Crowsnests floods of May, 1923, which nearly drowned both West and East Coleman, filled the lower levels of the International mine, ruined the Towns water supply and menaced the downtown. The Mohawk mines most lasting legacy to Bellevue was the little settlement called Maple Leaf which grew up on a property pre-empted by Chet Wentworth east of the ravine in which sheltered the Bellevue Mine. Although a new powerhouse was built to shelter larger boilers in 1911, Blairmore South ultimately disappointed WCC which quit mining it in 1914. Soon after the Railway arrived, however, P.A. Pozzi of Blairmore to raise the structure. Followed closely by the Blairmore Enterprise, which began its short life on November 4th of 1909, applications were made to the provincial government and on the 29th of September, 1911, Blairmore, its population officially determined to be 1137, was granted a patent as a Town. To the south of the Highway is the sullen concrete-faced Phillips Cable, Limited, building, officially opened on May 1st of 1965, part of an economic diversification plan to bring work to the Trough. One thing most people had in common was a desire to garden and a love of sports. 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. This code sample shows how to generate an elevation profile along a route. 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. Nearby the recently-restored Roxy Theatre beckons movie-goers with its fancy neon sign. In 1881, with the CPR poised to make its dash across the Plains, the good Senator, well aware that the Railway would be buying millions of wooden tiessleepersupon which to spike its rails, approached the Department of the Interior and offered to take the Piikanis little sawmill off its hands. In Alberta huge blocks of property were not made available. On a tour of southern B.C. Mistake! According to the unsworn testimony of Lawsons nine-year old daughter, Pearlie, Filumena was the one who fired the final shot that forever laid Lawson low. Naturally, the companies rejected this suggestion and soon after the Act was legislated, tools went down. 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. CMCs plan was to combine the output of the Bluebell with that of other Kootenay mines and renovate Kootenay Mining and Smeltings old Pilot Bay plant to magnetically concentrate the ore which would then be consigned to CP for shipment to Frank. At the time of the Slide he had been in Paris to finalize the sale of C-AC&C to a French consortium for $1.5 million. Eagle in The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 18961914 (McGill-Queens University Press, Montral, 1989), the Company leased the Turkey Track for a millennium less a year. Miners began to explore the avenue of appeasement rather than confrontation. South of the houses, on the Railways right-of-way, stands the rusting turquoise remains of Coleman Collieries Limiteds tipple. The building was dedicated on July 2nd, 1960, and was moved to its present location in 1984. The first joint project that the companies undertook was the completion of renovations to its tipple and the construction of a wet washery which MCC had already begun as part of an expensive program of modernization which had seen a coal drying plant finished a year earlier. After serving as a library and senior citizens drop-in centre, the old school was demolished in 1990. Highway 93 and the Crowsnest share a common alignment for the next 53km (33mi) southeast to Elko, where Highway 93 diverges south. An elevation profile will appear in the the lower half of the 3D Viewer. Ten were kept in production for awhile to supply specialty foundry orders, but on February 29th of 1952 Harold Nelson pulled the last loads from the final five ovens still in use and sealed them closed. The product proved satisfactory. Aldridge, the manager of the CPRs smelter at Trail, B.C., Lewis Stockett of CPs Natural Resources Department in Calgary stated that for that year the Hillcrest operation output 122,966 tons at a cost of $1.31 per ton. Downtown Coleman isnt much, really. Others were buried in other yards, with family and friends, throughout the Trough, or sent away Home. 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. Though there was plenty of coal, there were few customers relative to the number of competitors. He priced the project at a quarter-million dollars, with shops, offices and power generating facilities to be built in Blairmore, the areas biggest town. A ten ton electric larry was purchased to charge the ovens. Come 1922, however, work of any kind became scarce as the post-War recession bit deeply into industrial production world wide. Make sure to select the car once as well, just to check that the route is the same. The Age of Oil had arrived in Alberta. The Second World War called Colemans miners back to work in numbers not seen since the 10s. At the bottom, 125 vertical feet below the upper tipple, the coal was dropped into a second tipple and from there into waggons for the two mile haul to the Crows Nest Line (CNL) at Bellevue. Sinclair, a general contractor active in the neighbourhood prior to the Great War. After Coalhurst, the highway reaches Westview DriveW, which provides access to West Lethbridge. To meet unforeseen exigencies, lines of credit had to be maintained and investment capital constantly raised. With a swimming pool, a lunch counter and a dance floor set on stacks of old tyres, the Playgrounds opened that July 5th. Those with a macabre sense of history might want to cruise past the one time home of Constable Lawson, the police barracks just east of the Museum. Forming the Hill Promotion and Development Syndicate, he scoured the east for capital, finally finding most of it in Ottawa.22 With but $33,000 in his coffers, in January of 1905 Hill sank his first drift into a 14 foot-wide seam of rich, clean, semi-bituminous, the upper of two exposures on the side of Hillcrest Mountain. died, a quartet of N-WMP members on a sporting trip to Crowsnest Lake stopped in at what one of them, T. Clarke, perhaps facetiously called the Sulphur Springs Hotel, managed by Bob Connolly and his wife. Further, CM&S undertook to buy all its coal and coke from CCL for the next ten years. On December 12th, 1905, write the anonymous authors of Hazell Siding (home of Continental Lime Ltd.) in Crowsnest and Its PeopleMillennium Edition (Crowsnest Historical Society, Coleman, 2000), Hazell purchased a nearby 63-acre plot from Archibald Macmolt McVittie and moved his operation thereto, centred on two kilns. Crowsnest Pass comprises a valley running east-west through Crowsnest Ridge. Haultain. It needed a water system but had not the corporate weight to swing a loan. Most of the facades lined up along the north side of the 20th Avenue east from the WCC block and the new Provincial Buildinguntil 1981 the site of the WCCs managers mansion, Charbonnier House, and the foremans cottage, Green Houseare the plain fronts of structures that were never intended to be anything but utilitarian and inexpensive. See all region register. Along with all the rest of the Trough coal mine operators, Mohawk Bituminous Collieries struggled through the 20s and into the Depression. The explosion was attributed to the ever-present dust that haunted coal mines, and was a raw rubbing-point in the relations between worker and boss. Its style and success appealed to the miners in the east Pass and on May 8th, 1903, they abandoned the WFM and joined the UMWA, District 18, sub-district 5. In 1961 the Mine was closed and the tipple removed in 1962. The Act did not address the on-going dispute between workers and bosses regarding hours of work, lost time and recompense, but did provide dozens of solicitors with hundreds of billable hours as the regulations were argued over in the courts by an organization which was formed that year, the Western Coal Operators Association. With a pair of 15-yard bucket-capacity P&H shovels, three 10-yard Caterpillar 992 loaders and a fleet of 85- and 110-ton diesel-electric trucks, Loram attacked the measures, sending 1,000 tons per day down to the CCL plant at Coleman. The Coleman Crystal Rink, Limited, sold enough ten-dollar shares that it was able to build the Rink in the autumn of 1922. In fact, in the early evening of September 21st, 1922, the normal noises of a struggling coal town finishing dinner and tucking the kids into bed were punctuated by a fusillade of revolver reports. 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. EdmansonCalgary men allcomprised its Board of Directors and they immediately set about exchanging shares in the new company for those of the Washington-based original. By the spring of 1905 the 1200 ton-per-day tipple was receiving output from Green Creek, Bear Valley and Morin Creekmines No. In 1983 the Crowsnest Pass Provincial Building near the Post Office was opened and the courts removed themselves thence, the last session held in the old building being on July 14th. 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