Canoe River Disaster
On November 21, 1950 a westbound troop train carrying Canadian soldiers enroute to the Korean War and an eastbound No. 2 Continental collided head-on at Canoe River, B.C. The collision killed 17 soldiers, the locomotive crew of each train and injured 60 others. Harvey Church, Hank Prosiuk, Adam Oleschuk and Jack Stinson were among those who lost […]