Talk:Frank Slide

message: I would like to find a new reference picture.  This one is out of proportion, and it is impossible to tell how large the mountain is, how devastating and huge the slide.  I have seen Turtle Mountain and the slide that covered the town of Frank in person, and this picture does not do it justice in any way.  That there is a man standing in front of it skews the perception all the more.  I have pictures of my own, would it be acceptable to donate one of my own pictures to this article?   72.185.43.62 20:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, that would be great; you will have to register though in order to upload pictures to wikipedia. --Qyd 23:22, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

text: That's a good picture indeed.  How about using it in place of the existing panorama, which is really quite poor and is something I have wanted to replace for some time now? Resolute 04:54, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. Should mention size of debris field, 1.6 km beyond the river and up to 100 m higher (from topo maps). Also, the bulk of the debris is piled 30 m deep just north of the highway. Fourtildas (talk) 03:31, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: New Picture

message: I have made a couple of changes to this section which unfortunately reflected commonly-held mythology about Frank.  First, there was never a place called 'New Frank'; it was always just part of Frank.  That portion of town north of the railway (the present community) was laid out on the originial 1901 survey and its first three buildings were constructed in 1901-1902, before the Slide.  In 1905 the mine placed the remaining lots up for sale and it soon filled with houses, long before the 1911 relocations.
Second, the northern part of town did not receive buildings from the part of Frank that was moved.  The mine-owned houses were moved only a few hundred metres west onto Colomer Avenue, joining other company-owned houses built around 1908.  (Most of the Colomer Avenue houses were subsequently removed to Blairmore in the 1920s after the closure of the Frank mine.)  Some commercial buildings were torn down, but many were moved to the newly-surveyed Sulphur Springs subdivision, located inbetween Frank and Blairmore.  Sulphur Springs was also supposed to receive all of the houses from the north part of Frank - the present community - which never moved despite being located within the 'danger area'.  Sulphur Springs was not a success, and the commercial buildings there disappeared within fifteen years.  The only building known to have been moved into the part of Frank north of the tracks was the Union Hotel (later renamed the Frank Hotel), located only a few metres outside of the 'danger zone'. 
This is a lot of detail that probably does not need to go into this article, hence the brevity of my correction.
Many factual mis-steps regarding the Frank Slide reside in older history books, though the authors no doubt did their best with the resources they had.  An abbreviated version of my paper on this subject appears in the March 2012 newsletter of the Crowsnest Heritage Initiative, available here: http://www.crowsnestheritage.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/March-2012.pdf .  I can email a copy of the original footnoted paper to anyone interested in references.Ian mckenzie (talk) 21:42, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I enjoyed the copy you emailed me previously.  And certainly, if newer research notes older publications are incorrect, the myths should be removed.  Thanks, Resolute 22:33, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  changes to Aftermath 

message: Change location "Northwest Territories" to "Alberta"  The Frank Slide did not occur in NWT. LeeannL (talk) 21:14, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: , please see the first note in the article. The province of Alberta was not created until 1905, which was two years after the disaster. Maxim(talk) 21:48, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 November 2019 

message: location of the town was in Alberta not north west territories 66.222.152.195 (talk) 14:35, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: Asked and answered above. —KuyaBriBriTalk 15:06, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 22 February 2021 

message: Hi there! Frank slide is actually in Alberta Canada. Hope this helps. 96.45.10.22 (talk) 22:08, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: Please see the relevant discussion for this here. Sincerely, Deauthorized. (talk) 22:30, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 9 April 2021 

message: Change North West Territories to Alberta 2604:3D09:979:2000:B485:36A8:F270:283B (talk) 04:40, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: . See the footnote afterwards. Alberta was not created yet. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (talk) 06:00, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 29 May 2021 

message: Frank is not in The Northwest Territories, it’s in southern Alberta near the US border. Only 1000 km difference, I know. And “North-West” is not hyphenated. Isn’t there some kind of grammar test before you get editor status? 2604:3D09:67A:6400:D10:9B50:25A0:9718 (talk) 14:09, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: Please see the explanation here. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:30, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

text: The province of Alberta did not yet exist in 1903—it was carved out of NWT in 1905. There is a footnote to note this. As for "North-West", when the 1870 Imperial Order-in-Council transferred Rupert’s Land and The North-Western Territory to Canada, the subsequent territory was referred to as the "North-West Territories", and the spelling was only amended in 1906 to drop all hyphenated forms, thus giving the modern spelling. See also . Maxim(talk) 15:35, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 25 June 2021 

message: The town of Frank is not in the Northwest Territories, it’s in Alberta. 207.148.176.60 (talk) 02:46, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: See above. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:42, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 10 July 2021 

message: I'm sorry to bring this whole NWT or Alberta thing up again but really I think that the decisions made here are quite stupid. Let me mention this, for the category "1903 in Northwest Territories" note that it is Northwest not North-West, it's referring to what is now the northwest territories not the former entity. Also there are categories such as "1903 in Alberta" all the way into the 1800s, even though "Alberta" didn't exist back then. Because it is for events that occurred in what is now Alberta. This is how categories work with former entities in the US (See Indian Territory etc.) so what's the difference here? I have no issue with the framing being "this took place in the Alberta District of the North-West Territories, present day Alberta" in the article itself, but this cannot be applied to Categories as well. Here's another example, the category: 1980s in Eritrea. Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in the 90s. So should articles in this category be in the category 1980s in Ethiopia? According to the precedent set by every other historical category on this website NO!
I am going to change this and if someone reverts it there will be an Edit War II. 
Why is the article 1900 Edmonton Municipal Election in the category "1900 in Alberta"? Why does the category "1900 in Alberta" exist? Qwexcxewq (talk) 00:09, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "1903 in Northwest Territories" Category