2017.025.7.7 Landslide, Burton, 1984

Accession Num: 2017.025.7.7

Negative Code: O50-7

Extent:

Document Date: 1984-06-30 - 1984-07-02

Donors: Gale Detta

Creators: Lily Grimmett

Keywords: 1980s, Burton landslides (1984), Joy Creek, landslide/rockslide, Lower Arrow Lake, and The Narrows

Locations: Burton

Physical Description:
1 colour negative (35 mm)

Notes:
Joy Creek along Highway 6 just south of Burton following landslide, Canada Day long weekend, July 1984. Caption from 4 July 1984 edition of Arrow Lakes News: 'Some of the debris on the south side of the highway at Joy Creek just outside Burton. Logs and mud came down the mountain as a result of the very high rainfall overnight Thursday and early Monday morning'. Image from holdings of St. Andrew's United Church, Burton.