REMOVING A TOWN.
THREATENED BY ROCK SLiDE. By Telcirra ph.—Press Association.— CopyrigHt Received March 12, 11.25 p.m. Ottawa, Tuesday. A special Government Commission has ordered the removal to another site of the town of Frank, in Alberta, of 3000 inhabitants, as a rock and snow 3lide imperilled the residents. Eighty-four lives were lost in 1903 in a rock slide. A new town has been planned some distance away from the old site.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 447, 13 March 1912, Page 5
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