ALBERTA LOOKOUTS

TUNNEL MOUNTAIN

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Original name was King's Lookout

1941:  A 30-foot steel tower with cupola was erected by the Alternate Service Workers.   ("Fire lookout hikes in the Canadian Rockies"   Mike Potter  Published by:  Luminous Compositions Ltd.  1998)

March 17, 1952:   "A 12-year-old Calgary boy was killed yesterday in a 500-foot fall from the top of Tunnel mountain, near this resort town (Banff) 85 miles west of Calgary.
      Pat Demulder died in the long fall down the side of the mountain.  His chum, Billy Corrigal, 10, suffered a badly gashed knee and bruises.
      The boys came to Banff Sunday and climbed Tunnel mountain to see a fire lookout tower at the peak.
      Billy said he and his chum walked towards the cliffed side of the mountain and began to slip in the snow.
      'I grabbed a tree', Billy said, 'but Pat, who was sliding behind me, grabbed my leg and pulled me loose.  I started to roll and tumble, then closed my eyes as Pat went one way and I the other.'
      A search party found Pay's body at the base of the mountain."   (The Ottawa Journal)