Interactive map charts 250 years of avalanche deaths in Canada – Trail Times
December 15, 2025
Canada’s first recorded avalanche fatalities nearly 250 years ago would have been lost to time if it weren’t for a letter’s postscript.
In the early winter of 1782, at the end of correspondence to missionaries, condolences were offered following a local tragedy in the Inuit community of Nain, N.L.
“There gathered a monstrous body of snow which shot all at once down and pressed the winter hauss even with the ground, with all the people in it excepting one man who was buried in the snow without.”
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