Historical Video: Massive Tsunami slams B.C. coast in 1964

In the wake of the large tsunami that hit the Solomon Islands yesterday, residents of Vancouver Island and Valdez, Alaska, remember all too well the devasting tsunami that hit their region in 1964.

From the Archives of CBC Television

Just before midnight on March 27, 1964, the first of six massive waves strikes Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. Sparked by the deadly Good Friday earthquake in Alaska a few hours earlier, a two-storey "wall of water" topples trees, flings cars into buildings and rips houses from their foundations. CBC Television talks to residents as they struggle to recover from this disaster.

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