Where is Crowsnest Pass, Alberta located?

Crowsnest Pass is located in Alberta, Canada, at approximate coordinates 49.6291°, -114.4729°.

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Crowsnest Pass

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Crowsnest Pass

Elevation1358 m

Coordinates49.63°, -114.47°

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Overview

Crowsnest Pass is a low mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta–British Columbia border.

History & geography

History

*The Crowsnest Pass is the richest archaeological zone in the Canadian Rockies. The oldest relics are stone tools found on a rock ridge outside Frank, Alberta, from the Clovis culture, 11,000 years before present. Other sites include chert quarries on the Livingstone ridge dating back to 1000 BC. *1800: Members of David Thompson expedition avoid entering the pass. *ca. 1850: Crow Indians dispersed from area by Blackfoot Confederacy. *1873: Michael Phillipps (Hudson's Bay Company) traverses pass, reports coal deposits. *1877: The First Nations cede their title in the eastern portion of the pass with Treaty 7. The western portion in British Columbia is unceded. *1878: Government survey by George Dawson. *1881: first surveys by Canadian Pacific Railway. *1897: CPR enters into farm export subsidy agreement for freight rates in exchange for financing of the railway line between Lethbridge, Alberta, and Nelson, BC. Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company commences operations in British Columbia. *1898: CPR opens the railway line, 10th siding (later Blairmore, Alberta) established. Settlement of Fernie, British Columbia, established. *1900: the Frank Mine opens and the new town of Frank, Alberta, is established. Other coal mines and towns spring up between 1900 and 1919. *1902: explosion at Coal Creek mine kills 128 men. *1903: the cataclysmic Frank Slide occurs on the north slope of Turtle Mountain; 82 million tonnes of limestone crash down and partially bury the town of Frank, killing approximately 90 of the town's 600 residents. *1904: Fernie, British Columbia, incorporates. *1908: forest fire destroys Fernie (pop: 6000), which soon rebuilds. *1914: an explosion in the mine at Hillcrest kills 189 men, Canada's worst mine disaster. *1916–1923: Prohibition in Alberta; "rum-running"…

Geography

The pass is located in southeast British Columbia and southwest Alberta, and is the southernmost rail and highway route through the Canadian Rockies. It is the lowest-elevation mountain pass in Canada south of the Yellowhead Pass (); the other major passes, which are higher, being Kicking Horse Pass (), Howse Pass () and Vermilion Pass (). Crowsnest Pass comprises a valley running east–west through Crowsnest Ridge. On the Alberta side, the Crowsnest River flows east from Crowsnest Lake, eventually draining into the Oldman River and ultimately reaching Hudson Bay via the Nelson River. Summit Lake on the British Columbia side drains via three intermediary creeks into the Elk River, which feeds into the Kootenay River, and finally into the Columbia River to the Pacific.

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