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The Quebec rockslide occurred on September 19, 1889, after a day of heavy rain in SOS! Canadian Disasters
, a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada
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SOS! Canadian Disasters
a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada History of Quebec City Natural disasters in Quebec 1889 in Quebec Landslides in Canada Landslides in 1889 {{Quebec-hist-stub
The Quebec rockslide occurred on September 19, 1889, after a day of heavy rain in Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métrop ...
, Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
. An overhanging piece of slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
rock broke off from Cap Diamant Cap Diamant (English: Cape Diamond) is a cape on an edge of the Promontory of Quebec and on which Quebec City is located, formed by the confluence of a bend in the St. Lawrence River to the south and east, and the much smaller Saint-Charles River t ...
and fell 90 metres (300 feet) onto the houses below. The homes of 28 families on Champlain Street
Samuel de Champlain (; Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December 1635) was a Fre ...
were crushed, burying roughly 100 people under 24 metres (80 feet) of broken slate rock. The final death toll exceeded 40 people., a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada
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SOS! Canadian Disasters
a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada History of Quebec City Natural disasters in Quebec 1889 in Quebec Landslides in Canada Landslides in 1889 {{Quebec-hist-stub