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Handrahan's Cutting

Handrahan's Cutting, Tignish, Île-du-Prince-Édouard, C0B, Canada

Reconnu formellement en: 2001/08/03

Showing station house at time of 1932 accident; Alberton Museum
Train leaving Tignish Railway Station
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Autre nom(s)

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Liens et documents

Date(s) de construction

Inscrit au répertoire canadien: 2004/11/10

Énoncé d'importance

Description du lieu patrimonial

Handrahan's Cutting is located on the Confederation Trail (formerly the PEI Railway) in western PEI at Harper, near Tignish. A wooden cross and commemorative plaque mark the site of PEI's worst ever rail accident. The registration includes the area around which the wreck is believed to have occurred.

Valeur patrimoniale

The area of Handrahan's Cutting is significant as the site of PEI's worst ever rail accident which occurred in the early morning hours of February 21, 1932. A savage snow storm had been raging for days. A train became stuck in the high drifts and despite the work of two dozen shovellers, it would not budge. Other trains had been warned of the situation, however, another train came bounding down the tracks and directly struck the stuck train. Four people were killed and eleven were injured. Since then, the event has inspired a ballad and a painting and remains a dark episode in the history of the railway in PEI.

Source: PEI Heritage Advisory Committee Files

Éléments caractéristiques

The following elements are reminders of the rail tragedy:
- the wooden cross
- the commemorative plaque describing the tragedy
- the remaining railway bed (now the Confederation Trail) and surrounding view

Reconnaissance

Juridiction

Île-du-Prince-Édouard

Autorité de reconnaissance

Province de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard

Loi habilitante

Heritage Places Protection Act

Type de reconnaissance

Endroit historique inscrit au répertoire

Date de reconnaissance

2001/08/03

Données sur l'histoire

Date(s) importantes

1932/02/21 à 1932/02/21

Thème - catégorie et type

Économies en développement
Technologie et ingénierie

Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction

Actuelle

Historique

Communauté
Monument commémoratif

Architecte / Concepteur

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Constructeur

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Informations supplémentaires

Emplacement de la documentation

Located in the Culture and Heritage Division, PEI Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, Charlottetown, PE C1A 7N8 File #: 4310-20/H2

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Identificateur féd./prov./terr.

4310-20/H2

Statut

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Inscriptions associées

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