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A teenage boy living in a Cape Breton coal mining community during the 1930's finds himself contemplating life and is haunted by a murder he witnessed in town. A young boy working in Nova Scotia's treacherous coal mines in the beginning of the 20th century, finds a friend in a pony, one of the ponies used to haul coal up from the tunnels to
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Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Island, ranked as one of the top Islands in North America by Travel Leisure magazine, is home to the Cabot Trail which has received accolades in USA Today's 10 Best Motorcycle Trips, MSN Travel's 10 Most Underrated Attractions, and Zoomer's 7 Greatest Road Trips.
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With the reopening of Cape Breton's Donkin coal mine expected in late spring, the province is looking for some guidance on minimizing the greenhouse gases coal mines produce. The N.S. Department
Get PriceCape Breton Island has two major coal deposits The Sydney Coal Field in the southeastern part of the island along the Atlantic Ocean drove the Industrial Cape Breton economy throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—until after World War II its industries were the largest private employers in Canada; the Inverness Coal Field in the western part of the island along the Gulf of St
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Standards, Best Practices Guidance for Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves
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The Donkin coal project is an underground mine located on the north-eastern tip of Cape-Breton, Nova Scotia. Kameron Collieries (Kameron), an affiliate of The Cline Group, is the owner and operator of the coal mine. Kameron acquired a 75% interest in the project from Glencore in December 2014 and in
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↑ Pioneer Coal Canadian Mining Companies and Supplier Directory, accessed May 2011. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Residents frustrated with mine activity prepared to walk away The Cape Breton Post, April 11, 2011. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Home Citizens Against Strip Mining, accessed May 2011.
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Labour Landmarks in New Waterford Collective Memory in a Cape Breton Coal Town LACHLAN MACKINNON Les lieux historiques ouvriers inscrivent le 3souvenir public3 de travailleurs dans l'ensemble de la mmoire collective d'une communaut.
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Author P. Hyndman, Henry Nicholas b. PaintJan 24, 2000Tom Hutchison was just 19 and scared to death. But in 1970, he went down into No. 12 colliery in New Waterford, N.S., anyway. Tradition was part of it his father, Fred, had been working the coal mines of Cape Breton since he was 15 and even raised his family in
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Coal was the basic fuel that powered Canada's industrial outputs throughout both wars, and Cape Breton was a major source of that. The coal mines and steel plant would also provide jobs for soldiers returning from war, despite work in the coal mines meaning they would be putting their lives at risk again.
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Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton Volume 2 The Rover's Return. Vol. 1- Mabou Coal Mines. Vol. 2 The Rover's Return. Vol. 3 Bras d'Or House. Vol. 4 MacKinnon's Brook. Part of Rounder's North American Traditions series,The present collection focuses upon the region around Kenloch, north of Lake Ainslie in the center of Inverness
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Jul 06, 2005With the high price of oil and natural gas making coal a more attractive source of energy, a partial return to the days when coal was king in Cape Breton is more likely than ever before.
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Apr 18, 2016A top official, helping to open the new Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton, has resigned from the project after questions were raised by media regarding his involvement in
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Background. The Seaboard Generating Station opened in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in 1931 by Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation and was the sole supplier of electricity for the Industrial Cape Breton region until its purchase by Nova Scotia Power in 1966 as part of DOSCO's ongoing asset liquidation.
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Cape Breton trails. Visitor information for Cape Breton is organized into scenic driving routes called trails. The Cabot Trail is the most famous and winds through the gorgeous Cape Breton Highlands National Park.. Mabou, where I live, is on the Ceilidh Trail, so named because it is the part of the island most known for its music.
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Visit Cape Breton Miners' Museum for a first-hand experience of the history of this converted coal mine. Situated in the picturesque Glace Bay, the museum offers guided tours with retired miners, giving you a sense of what it was like to work there. See informative exhibits about the mining industry
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Inverness Railway, Cape Breton Report to H.N. Paint, Esq., Ex-M.P., Controlling the Broad Cove Coal Mines of the Exploratory and Preliminary Surveys C. B. R' y, to Broad Cove and Cheticamp on Amazon. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of
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The Coal By The Sea documents the discovery of coal in Cape Breton and celebrates the opening of the first commerical coal mining operation in North America. Coal that was first mined in 1720 in Port Morien, besides being shipped off to the Boston States, also kept the workforce warm throughout the building of Fortress Louisbourg.
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Glace Bay's extensive coal and rail operations made the town the industrial center of Cape Breton. As coal mining became less important, the mines were closed until, in 1984 Colliery No. 26 was closed by the Cape Breton Development Corporation. Many residents of Glace Bay started to work at the two other coal mines in the area Prince Colliery
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Sep 09, 2017moved out, some to the coal mines around Sydney and Glace Bay, but there was also a small movement to Baddeck and even to the fishing villages at the furthest north tip of Cape Breton, around Bay St. Lawrence. From The Outer Hebrides to Cape Breton Part II By Bill Lawson, lawsonbil@aol
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Cape Breton Regional Municipality often shortened to simply CBRM, is a regional municipality in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton County. According to the 2006 Census of Canada, the population within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is 102,250. Its population makes it
Get PriceJun 30, 2014Prologue Let me start this series off by expressing how life changing this event was for me.
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Last update 12 April 2017. 300 pages, comprising of 214 tables and 98 charts. This book is a part of an on-going research on energy business in Indonesia, including a near exhaustive profile of
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Cape Breton Regional Municipality often shortened to simply CBRM, is a regional municipality in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton County.. According to the 2011 Census of Canada, the population within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is 97,398.
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The Cape Breton coal strike of 1981 was a strike by coal miners belonging to the United Mine Workers of America against the Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO) of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The strike, which was bitter and violent, began in the middle of July 1981, and ended in early October of that year.
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This investigative piece by Global Television's 16X9 program on the safety record of West Virginia coal baron Chris Cline- the man who plans to re-open the Donkin Mine- should be required viewing for all Cape Bretoners.. The similarities between Cape Breton and Appalachia, where Cline was one of the operators blowing the tops off mountains to reach the coal below, are almost eerie.
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View of the Glace Bay coal mining area, in 1906. Glace Bay, Sydney coalfield, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
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Cape Breton Island has two major coal deposits the Sydney Coal Field in the southeastern part of the island along the Atlantic Ocean drove the Industrial Cape Breton economy throughout the 19th and 20th centuries until after World War II its industries were the largest private employers in Canada; the Inverness Coal Field in the western part
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The Cape Breton Regional Municipality was formed on 1 August 1995 by the amalgamation of eight former municipalities the City of Sydney; the Towns of Dominion, Glace Bay, Louisbourg, New Waterford, North Sydney, and Sydney Mines; and the County of Cape Breton. The number of maple leaves refers to those eight municipal units.
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