Comments on: The Hope Slide of 1965 https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: mae https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/#comment-57555 Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:37:13 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=13384#comment-57555 In reply to Jolene Tucker.

You think people would hang around the place of their death? Good grief. My parents were friends with one of the deceased and he was a loving, devoted husband and father. So no, they had families, children and their energy would follow them through their lives. Seriously, I hope they don’t see your comment.

]]> By: Dalton https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/#comment-57242 Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:03:11 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=13384#comment-57242 In reply to Eve Lazarus.

David Hughes, the Greyhound driver, was my grandfather.

The Ashcroft Times has a detailed series of events from a 2018 article.

]]> By: Jolene Tucker https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/#comment-57237 Mon, 09 Jan 2023 01:55:46 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=13384#comment-57237 In reply to jmv.

I wouldn’t doubt it those wonderful, kind people who passed away years ago 1965 still walk along that highway in spirit.. I believe in after life and you never know maybe one day someone will see a ghost(spirit) of one of those people sitting by the highway. I have seen ghosts (spirits) and heard them also.. Very sorry for the families that lost their loved ones during the earthquake years ago in 1965..

]]> By: Teresa James https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/#comment-57236 Sun, 08 Jan 2023 23:03:18 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=13384#comment-57236 I remember the day it happened, and may still have the newspaper articles. I was 13. I was really shocked, because our family traveled that route every year to the Okanagan for our camping trip. We had also visited the site of the slide in Frank, Alberta, a few years before, and learning bout it really caught my imagination.

]]> By: Dianne https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/#comment-57235 Sun, 08 Jan 2023 17:36:11 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=13384#comment-57235 My Dad had driven semi-trucks along that highway for years and when he heard about the slide on the news, he insisted that we drive there.
I have memories of him taking video tape of the slide and showing me about where he thought the couple were at the time.

]]> By: Kerrianne Ferrier https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/#comment-57232 Sun, 08 Jan 2023 06:02:07 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=13384#comment-57232 I remember a few years after it happened, my dad stopped us at the site and told us we were standing over the bodies of those unfortunate people. It’s to this day an area that chills me to the bone. The current highway bypasses the likely grave area. Last time I was there, a few years ago, you could still get to part of the old highway, which now runs through the forest growing over it.

]]> By: Joanne Haveman https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/#comment-57227 Sat, 07 Jan 2023 22:44:57 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=13384#comment-57227 In reply to Skip Savage.

The driver of the Greyhound bus was a very gracious gentleman who lived with his wife at the retirement home where I was employed. Lovely couple and he shared with us how he was the driver of that bus on that eventful day.

]]> By: Skip Savage https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/#comment-57223 Sat, 07 Jan 2023 19:20:42 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=13384#comment-57223 Epic! Did you run across the story about the Greyhound bus barrelling down the Hope-Princeton onto the stretch of highway about to be buried in 230 feet of rock? That would make a good part 2.

]]> By: jmv https://evelazarus.com/the-hope-slide-of-1965/#comment-57222 Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:58:44 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=13384#comment-57222 Hope Slide, commemorated in a 1960s window decal! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmv/5545465475

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