Photo showing first Mudslide on Highway 25 - 25 May 1962. Lake turned Blue. A car and a logging truck were smashed against each other. Two other cars, a pickup truck, three giant earth movers, three caterpillar tractors, a road grader and a drag line were heavily damaged when they slithered into the chasm. A total of 7-1/2 million tons of earth was heaved about in the eruption and hundreds of tons of blue clay were pushed down into the lake itself, turning the water a bright blue.
Photo showing first Mudslide on Highway 25 - 25 May 1962. Lake turned Blue. A car and a logging truck were smashed against each other. Two other cars, a pickup truck, three giant earth movers, three caterpillar tractors, a road grader and a drag line were heavily damaged when they slithered into the chasm. A total of 7-1/2 million tons of earth was heaved about in the eruption and hundreds of tons of blue clay were pushed down into the lake itself, turning the water a bright blue.
Photo showing first mudslide on Highway 25 - 25 May 1962. The eruption, which affected an area 3,000 feet long and one-quarter of a mile wide, struck at 6 p.m. Hundreds of trees up to 100 feet high were snapped in two and tossed about like matchsticks. Eight power poles and 4,000 feet of transmission line were destroyed, cutting off Terrace's power supply. Took out Granite Creek Bridge.
Photo showing first mudslide on Highway 25 - 25 May 1962. The eruption, which affected an area 3,000 feet long and one-quarter of a mile wide, struck at 6 p.m. Hundreds of trees up to 100 feet high were snapped in two and tossed about like matchsticks. Eight power poles and 4,000 feet of transmission line were destroyed, cutting off Terrace's power supply. Took out Granite Creek Bridge.
Photo showing - NSP Article - Eleven Miles Out. Now almost eleven miles from the end of Haisla Boulevard, the Kitimat-Terrace highway has stretched to within six miles of the Kitimat river bridge. This part of the roadbed is still very much in the making, but several miles of roadway nearer to the Kitimat townsite are at finished grade and surface. Workmen driving over the highway report the finished part "a pleasure to travel."
Photo showing - NSP Article - Eleven Miles Out. Now almost eleven miles from the end of Haisla Boulevard, the Kitimat-Terrace highway has stretched to within six miles of the Kitimat river bridge. This part of the roadbed is still very much in the making, but several miles of roadway nearer to the Kitimat townsite are at finished grade and surface. Workmen driving over the highway report the finished part "a pleasure to travel."
Photo showing 'under construction' - Kitimat River Bridge (18 miles north of Kitimat); construction of deck of bridge, road link with Terrace, Highway 25, (span near completion). Became Highway 37 in 1975.
Photo showing 'under construction' - Kitimat River Bridge (18 miles north of Kitimat); construction of deck of bridge, road link with Terrace, Highway 25, (span near completion). Became Highway 37 in 1975.
Photo showing the "Big Boss" of B.C Highways Hon. Phil Gaglardi (foreground at right) surveying the construction work being done on the highway. Bulldozer in middleground and tractor in background.
-Construction of Hwy 25
-Opened 28 November 1957
Photo showing the "Big Boss" of B.C Highways Hon. Phil Gaglardi (foreground at right) surveying the construction work being done on the highway. Bulldozer in middleground and tractor in background.
-Construction of Hwy 25
-Opened 28 November 1957
