BCHF News 58 years after the Hope Slide

58 years after the Hope Slide

Vancouver Sun, Jan. 11, 1965

On Jan. 9, 1965, half an unnamed mountain plunged down the Hope-Princeton highway bringing with it 46 million cubic metres of rock, earth, snow and trees. When it was finished, four people were dead, a valley and a lake were wiped out, and three kilometres of highway was destroyed.

BC history blogger Eve Lazarus has written about it here: https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/