Accession Num: 2014.018.4096
Negative Code: S1333-33
Extent:
Document Date: 1978-03-28 - --
Donors: Denis Stanley
Creators: Denis Stanley
Keywords: 1970s, drill, Galena Contractors, Hot Springs Road, Hot Springs Road slide (1978), landslide/rockslide, McRae; Norm, and Pigott; Fred
Locations: Nakusp
Physical Description:
1 b/w negative (35 mm)
Notes:
Department of Highways foreman Norm McRae (left) stands above a Galena Contractors truck driven by Ed Bordula buried in gravel after a slide from a gravel pit near Dinner Creek fell onto Hot Springs Road as Bordula and drill operator Fred Pigott were driving to a work site, 28 March 1978. The operators were unharmed.