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Oct 10, 2017"In the early 1920s she went to Cape Breton to organize mine workers. After returning to Toronto, where her son Jim was born, she organized for the communist-led Industrial Needle Trades Workers Union in the early 1930s. While serving on the IUNTW executive board, she helped lead a general strike of Toronto dressmakers in 1931.
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Cape Breton Waterfront Property: Mira River Building Lots For Sale Come home to nature in Cape Breton. Imagine living in pristine beauty by the banks of the Mira River- just footsteps away from pictureque Cupids Cove.This sheltered and tranquil water inlet is located at Hillside, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - a convenient 15 minutes from Sydney on Highway 22, and 2 kilometres from Albert Bridge.
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Jun 23, 2013In 1906, he emigrated to Canada in search of a better life and found work in the Cape Breton coal mines. In 1909, the miners went on strike. They lost. Black-listed and broke, Goodwin moved to Cumberland on Vancouver Island. Again he worked in the coal mines. He was active in the strike of 1912-1914.
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Apr 23, 2012The Cape Breton economy was driven by coal throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and up to World War Two it was the largest private employer in Canada, according to Wikipedia
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Woodsworth, an early social activist (in fact, the future founder of the New Democratic Party) and at the time a member of the House of Commons as part of the Independent Labour Party, wrote an op-ed column for a Canadian monthly on the miners' strike in Cape Breton
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The Militant Coal Miners (cartoon) Unknown artist, c. 1922-25. This contemporary cartoon appearing in a Nova Scotia newspaper (pulled from Morton 2007) illustrates the conflict between the Cape Breton coal miners and the BESCO executives, who were based in Montreal. The proprietors appear to be visiting the coal fields and are positioned on a
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Aug 13, 2012This car has been preserved at Exporail in Delson Quebec. Sydney Louisbourg caboose #18 is the only wood SL caboose remaining. This car was build by Canadian Pacific c-1905 as CPR #436000. It was sold to the SL in the 1950's. It is shown here in 2006 at the Syndey Louisburg Railway Museum in Louisburg. Sydney Louisbourg coach #10 is
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Sep 22, 2017The Cape Breton Miners' Slowdown Strike of 1941 Through the summer of 1941 the virulently anti-union Toronto Globe and Mail published a series of editorials fulminating against the slowdown strike being conducted by the coal miners of Cape Breton. In July the paper denounced the sheer pusillanimity of federal Minister of Labour Norman McLarty in
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As the largest urban area on Cape Breton and the island's historical capital, Sydney is the perfect mix of metropolitan charm and down home hospitality. As with many Nova Scotian communities on the ocean, the heart of Sydney is its waterfront. On a warm, summer evening it's a great place to go for a walk, stop to watch to a busker and to watch ships in the harbour. Along the way, be sure
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Saskatchewan doctors' strike From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia The Saskatchewan doctors' strike was a 23-day labour action exercised by medical doctors in 1962 in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in an attempt to force the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Saskatchewan to drop its program of universal medical insurance .
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Cape Breton Home of our Hearts. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia is the No. 1 island destination in Canada and continental United States, according to Travel and Leisure magazine's 2011 World's Best Awards. Join Capers and Friends-Links to Caper Blogs. Flu Outbreak Closes Nova Scotia Schools Feb 21, 1980
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Jul 26, 2012Huey McIsaac, Retired Coal Miner, Inverness, Cape Breton. I worked 25 years at the coal face, mainly here in Inverness. I was about 14-something when I started mining. My father worked on surface at the mine. At one time, there were 800 men working in No. 1 Mine, with 100 on surface. And there's coal there yet for thousands of years that they
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The Cape Breton mines are the largest producers, and have built up the port of Sydney, the population of which has quadrupled in ten years (now 10,000). Education [ edit ] Nova Scotia is especially proud of her free, public-school system, which is open to the children of all the people.
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Cape Breton Island, Mi'kmaq Unama'ki, northeastern portion of Nova Scotia, Canada.It is separated from the remainder of the province and the Canadian mainland by the 2-mile- (3-km-) wide Strait of Canso (southwest) and is further bounded by the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Cabot Strait (north), the Atlantic Ocean (east and south), and Northumberland Strait (west).
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Gowrie Colliery opens at Port Morien (closed 1891). Lingan Colliery opens at New Waterford, Cape Breton County (closed in 1886; reNova Scotia Archives - Men in the Mines,Military aid to the civil power: the Cape Breton coal strike of 1909-1910. Unpublished MA thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1987, 94pp. Illus. Fns. Biblio.
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1985, Cape Breton at 200 : historical essays in honour of the Island's bicentennial, 1785-1985 / Kenneth Donovan, editor University College of Cape Breton Press Sydney, N.S Wikipedia Citation Please see Wikipedia's template documentation for further citation fields that may be required.
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May 10, 2012Harlan County, USA is an Oscar-winning 1976 documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", [1] an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973. [2] Directed by Barbara Kopple, who has long been an advocate of
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May 02, 2020See also Cape Breton Island on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclopdia Britannica disclaimer . CAPE BRETON, the north-east portion of Nova Scotia, Canada, separated from the mainland by a narrow strait, known as the Gut of Canceau or Canso. Its extreme length from north to south is about 110 m., greatest breadth about 87 m., and area 3120 sq. m.
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Mar 06, 2019Newfoundland entered the Great War with great enthusiasm, but was unprepared for what lay ahead. The war greatly stimulated the local economy, since fish prices rose to unprecedented heights. The mining industry also eventually prospered, but the newsprint sector did less well. This is partly because there were endemic shipping problems caused in part by the sale of locally-owned
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Save this home. LOT 3 George St, Cape Breton, NS B1P 1P1. MLS ID #202113080, KELLER WILLIAMS SELECT REALTY (SYDNEY,TOWNSEND ST.) BROKERAGE. C$69,000. 4,896 sqft lot. - Lot / Land for sale. Save this home. 3309 Veniot Ave, New Waterford, NS B1H 2R5.
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Jun 09, 2017But the price of coal, a staple industry on Cape Breton, was being decimated. So you have this struggle between the promise of now coming back to
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Jul 21, 2019William Davis, a miner, with the British Empire Steel Corporation (BESCO), was employed at the No. 12 Colliery, New Waterford..d In 1920, BESCO management began a targeted campaign to break the union. (A historical marker located in New Waterford in Cape Breton
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She incorporated the typical Cape Breton colours described in the poem. Black for the wealth of our coal mines, Grey for our Cape Breton steel, Green for our lofty mountains, Our valleys and our fields; Gold for our golden sunsets Shining bright on the lakes of Bras D'Or To show us God's hand has lingered To bless Cape Breton's shores.
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Mar 30, 2020The Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton is closing permanently, operator Kameron Coal announced Monday. Workers repair the road leading to the Donkin coal
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The town of New Waterford, incorporated in 1913, was a major centre of the coal industry in Cape Breton. New Waterford is an especially important site in the local history of Cape Breton, as it was the setting for two major events in the labour history of the region: the 25 July 1917 explosion at the local Number 12 Colliery and the death of coal miner William Davis during a strike in 1925.
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David Frank, J. B. McLachlan: A Biography: The Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners, (1999), in Canada; Barbara Freese. Coal: A Human History (2003) Jeffrey, E. C. Coal and Civilization 1925. Nimura Kazuo, Andrew Gordon, and Terry Boardman; The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan Duke University
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Dec 03, 2013A series of vignettes featuring coal mines in New Waterford and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, with traditional Cape Breton folk songs sung by Men of the Deeps, a m
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by Joanne Schwartz • PHOTOS • 80 pages. AN ILLUMINATING, sympathetic introductory history of Cape Breton flows seamlessly into the mining of coal and the exploitation of miners. From the first mine at Cow Bay (Port Morien) in 1720 to hard-won union recognition at the end of the 1925 strike, this is a shocking story of appalling living conditions, brutal corporate tactics, and oppressive
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The story of the General Strike of 1925 is intrinsic to understanding the miners' struggle and the longevity of Davis Day. The history of unrest in the Cape Breton coal industry can be traced back at least to the signing in 1893 of the Dominion Coal Company's 99-year
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A young boy toils in the coal mines of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and finds the brighter side of life in this heartwarming family drama. Set at the turn of the century, the story centers on Willie MacLean (Alex Wrathell), who works alongside a pony in the mines.
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