Curated by Kaylin Paschall, TME

The gift of life was celebrated during Christmas of 1967 after 17 workers were freed from a collapse while working in one of the tunnels of the Edmonston Pumping Plant project. This story was originally reported in the December 28 edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

“Christmas was a happy day after all for the families of the 17 workers trapped…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Photos of the Edmonston Plant printed in the October 7, 1971 edition of The Mountain Enterprise announcing the project’s completion

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This is part of the December 23, 2022 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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