Rochfort Bridge

History

A farm near Rochfort Bridge and Mayerthorpe was the site of the Mayerthorpe tragedy on March 3, 2005, in which four officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were shot and killed in a raid on a marijuana drug operation. On December 5, 2019, a fire broke out in a home inside the hamlet. In the early morning hours of December 6, fire crews announced a body had been discovered, and later on after a more extensive search, four more bodies had been discovered. Two adults, Marvin and Janet Gibbs, and their three grandchildren all were killed in the fire.

Most-observed species

• Common Raven

  Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  46
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  33
• Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

  Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  30
• Black-billed Magpie

  Pica hudsonia (Sabine, 1823) · Aves
  25
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  22
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  20
• Downy Woodpecker

  Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  19
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  19

Most recent

• M 2.5 — 2008-01-31
  10 km NNW of Edson, Canada