Ordin Olson

   Another name for Ordin was Ivan Ordean Olson.³⁵⁶¹

  Research Notes:

1. Death Cert, 1965

- was a caterpillar - trailer operator with Granduc Mines, Portal Camp [ about 50 kms north of Stewart BC ]
- death as an accident, 18 Feb 1965 [ copy of the record is very poor quality - some more details of the accident are in handwriting, but the handwriting is to faint to make out ]
- at the camp for about 8-10 months; from Hay Lakes, AB - father Anton Olson (born in MN) and Olga (with maiden name as Grue)
- name recorded as Ivan Ordein Olson, birth 28 Jan 1938, age 27, single


2. http://maureen-k-fleury.suite101.com/1965-granduc-mine-disaster-stewart-bc-canada-a300594

1965 Granduc Mining Mine Disaster, Stewart, BC, Canada

From: http://explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/granduc.html

Death Came Silently: the Granduc Mine Disaster, by Murray Lundberg

- the town of Stewart BC was established about 1905 at the head of the Portland Canal (Canada's most northern ice-free waterway)
- prospectors etc were in the area as early as the late 1890's
- mining increased in importance - minor gold boom from about 1907 to the late 1920's with the main gold mine closing in the 1950's
- by 1948 copper deposits near Tide Lake [ Granduc ], 30 miles north of Stewart, were identified but it took until 1964 before financing and technology allowed the area to be mined
- there was going to be a 11-mile tunnel built
- several camps were built, including one for 140 people at the Leduc Glacier - 4 bunkhouses were built etc;
- a runway was built, but was only used with good weather --- the rest of the time, cat trains brought in supplies

-- "On the steep mountainsides above Portal Camp of the Granduc Mine, millions of tons of snow let loose at 10:16 AM, February 18, 1965. The survivors mostly remembered that it happened silently, with no warning. Radio operator Innis Kelly managed to get a brief "Mayday" message out.... Virtually the entire camp was wiped out by the avalanche."

- a list of victoms - Ivan Olsen, Hay Lake


3. Obtis 1965 -- The Camrose Canadian

- birth, death, burial, etc - Mar 1
- survived by parents, brothers Lenard of Camrose, Gordon at home; sisters Gladys (Mrs Klonteig) of Edmonton, Delores (Mrs Whyte) of Edmonton, Karen and Carol at home ³⁵⁶³