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It was a cool spring morning on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island when the ground began to buckle and heave. On the Richter scale, the earthquake reached a magnitude of 7.3 at a place called Forbidden Plateau. Seventy-five years later, it still holds the title as the most powerful onshore quake ever recorded in Canada. In nearby communities, brick walls fell and three-quarters of all chimneys collapsed. Two casualties were recorded that day: one man died of heart failure and another drowned after his dinghy was overturned by a wave generated when a piece of land gave way and thundered into the sea. For a while, that seemed like the end of the story. But over time, the changes wrought by the quake revealed a mystery that had lain hidden for generations long enough t
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COURTENAY, B.C. A large-scale effort to locate a woman along the Courtenay River wrapped up successfully Sunday night after the person was located far from the water. RCMP contacted members of the Comox Valley Search and Rescue team around 4:15 p.m. with the belief that a woman may have gone into the river near the Condensory Road Bridge. RCMP members, a helicopter and police service dogs were all involved in the search, as were volunteer searchers who went in the water and along the shorelines. All teams were dispatched, swift water teams, our boat teams, ground teams, dog teams, says Comox Valley Search and Rescue leader Paul Berry.