Frank
Railway Point
82 G
Approximately 110 km west of Lethbridge.
Probably the most famous community in the Crowsnest Pass is Frank. It was there on April 29, 1903, that a portion of Turtle Mountain fell on the town, killing seventy residents. The
village had been incorporated just a year and a half earlier. S. W. Gebo came to Alberta in 1900 looking for coal property and found choice land at this site. In 1901 he sent for A. L. Frank in Butte, Montana, and together they formed the Canadian American Co. and immediately started to mine the coal deposits. Despite the early disaster Frank has survived, and is the centre of tourism, the show-piece of which is Alberta Community Development's Frank Slide Interpretive Centre.