Help! We have a family reunion coming up in August and the family is waiting to see if I, "the family genealogist" will come up with the answer... Harold Nichol was my great uncle. He was single and travelled from one good money-making job to the next. Did a lot of mining etc. According to family lore he stumbled drunk into an "explosion" field while making a "right of way" (for either a road or train?) and sat down on a keg of dynamite. Of course you can imagine what happened next. Other versions of the story are that he was in a mine and someone mishandled a box of nitro of whom Uncle Harold was standing beside... Accordingly there was nothing to bury or cremate so that resource of information is nil. I found an older relative who has a piece of correspondence from another relative stating "Uncle Harold was killed at Clearwater." Because we are a BC family I searched Clearwater, BC and Clearwater, Washington and Clearwater, Idaho. I just found out there is a CLEARWATER, ALBERTA! Can someone help me with this? I would be indebted to you forever! Any of your older family members recall a man being blown up in their working days? According to the person who wrote the correspondence I am thinking that he was killed in the late 1930's to very early 1940's. My logic tells me that this information is not that old and I should be able to get it quite easily but this has not been the case!