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CA BI 80-580-4760 · Item · ca. 1926

Item is a photograph of Marble Mountain, showing mine workings.

Messervey, J.P.
Gypsum Quarry at St. Ann's
CA BI 79-472-3452 · Item · 1906

Item is a photograph of a group of miners, horses and carts, and boxcars at the St. Ann's Gypsum Quarry.

Mabou Mines
86-03-16091 · Item · ca. 1915

Item is a photograph of the Mabou Coal Mines shipping pier. There is text written on the reverse, "J.G.S. Hudson Cape Breton Series."

Mabou Coal Mines
86-02-16090 · Item · ca. 1915

Item is a photograph of the loading pier and general mining office at Mabou Coal Mines. There is text written on the reverse, "J.G.S. Hudson Cape Breton Series."

Donkin miners
86-68-16165 · Item · ca. 1925

Item is a photograph of miners in rail cars, waiting to descend into the Donkin Mine.

CA BI 80-695-4875 · Item · 1963

Item is a photograph of Dominion Coal Company officials with government officials and UMW representatives on an inspection of a coal mine. Several people in the photograph are identified.

Cornelius Shields
CA BI 80-705-4885 · Item · 1903

Item is a photograph of Cornelius Shields, president of the Mining Society from 1902 to 1903.

C.H. Dimick
CA BI 80-706-4886 · Item · 1904

Item is a photograph of C.H. Dimick, president of the Mining Society from 1903 to 1904.

CA BI 77-327-461a · Item · ca. 1930

Item is a photograph showing men mining coal on the "Flats" near Main Street and Brown Street, Sydney Mines, during the Depression.

“Men of the Deeps”
CA BI Mg 15.38 · Fonds · 1974

Songs of the Cape Breton mining communities, a paper by John C. O’Donnell, Director of the Men of the Deeps.

CA BI 76-102 · Item · 1909

Item is a photograph of the first draeger crew formed in North America; the crew was formed at the No. 2 and No. 9 collieries, Glace Bay.
Front row: John Joe MacNeil, Mr. Fergie, Norman MacKenzie. Middle row: Dan "Storey" MacDonald, Joe Campbell, Thomas Turner, James MacMahon, Unknown, Roddie "Heenan" MacDonald, Matt MacAdam, Dan MacGillivary, Gilbert Darroch, Alex T. MacNeil, Mick Steele.
Back row: Harry Miller, Vannie Nicholson, John MacLean, John Robinson, Dan W. "Kink" McDonald, Unknown, Unknown Evan Prothero, Unknown.

CA BI 77-327-461b · Item · ca. 1930

Item is a postcard of coal miners mining on the 'Flats' between Main Street and Brown Street in Sydney Mines.

CA BI 77-339-473 · Item · 1913

Item is a photograph of the Coal Company office staff in Glace Bay, showing the interior of the office building. The names of the staff members are included on the reverse of the photograph: Alex T. Mc Lellan, William Hodges, A.D. Mc Cuish, A.S. Mc Neil, Fred Simonson, Peter Nicholson, Jas. D. Maxwell, Thomas Farrell (back), John Mc Eachern (back), John Mc Dougall, Ernie Beaton, Chas. Compton, Theo J. Cribb.

Dr. Thomas E. Jeans
CA BI 77-369-503 · Item · ca. 1867

Item is a photographic portrait of Dr. Thomas E. Jeans, the first G.M.A. doctor from 1829-1867.

General Mining Association
CA BI MG 14.19 · Fonds · 1827-1900

The General Mining Association, a Branch of the London
firm of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, was granted a monopoly on
the Nova Scotian coal reserves by the Duke of York in 1827. The
monopoly was rescinded in 1857, but operations continued until

  1. The mines on the southern side of the Sydney Coalfield
    were taken over between 1893 and 1900 by the Dominion Coal
    Company. Operations on the northern side of the Sydney
    Coalfield were purchased by the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal
    Company in 1900. This documentation includes an extensive
    collection: workmen
CA BI 77-1092-1226 · Item · 1936

Item is a photograph of a mine car at the loading point in the model coal mine at the Province of Nova Scotia Exhibit, Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto that ran August 28 - September 12, 1936.

CA BI 77-1091-1225 · Item · 1936

Item is a photograph of the loading point in the model coal mine at the Province of Nova Scotia Exhibit, Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto that ran August 28 - September 12, 1936. This picture shows the view looking towards the entrance.

CA BI 77-1095-1229 · Item · 1936

Item is a photograph of the pan line in the model coal mine at the Province of Nova Scotia Exhibit, Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto that ran from August 28 - September 12, 1936.

CA BI 77-1096-1230 · Item · 1936

Item is a photograph of the "pan line" and the loading point in the model coal mine at the Province of Nova Scotia Exhibit, Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto that ran from August 28 - September 12, 1936. The ropes prevented the crowd from crossing pans when in operation.

CA BI 77-1099-1233 · Item · 1936

Item is a photograph of the passage way in the model coal mine at the Province of Nova Scotia Exhibit, Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto that ran from August 28 - September 12, 1936. This picture shows a view looking down the face and towards the level. Midwalls and Gob are shown on the left.

Dominion Coal Co. Staff
CA BI 77-1147-1281 · Item · 1910

Item is a photograph of members of the Dominion Coal Company Staff. The names of the people featured in the photographs are listed on the back.

Coal Pier, North Sydney
CA BI 77-130-264 · Item · 1902

Item is a photograph of the high coal piers in North Sydney.

CA BI 77-140-274 · Item · 1935-1955

Item is a photograph of a stack standing at the #4 Caledonia Colliery in Glace Bay.

CA BI 80-694-4874 · Item · 1963

Item is a photograph of Dominion Coal Company officials with government officials and UMW representatives on an inspection of a coal mine. Several people in the photograph are identified.

W.L. Libbey
CA BI 80-704-4884 · Item · 1901

Item is a photograph of W.L. Libbey, the president of the Mining Society from 1899 to 1901.

D.H. McDougall
CA BI 80-712-4892 · Item · 1917

Item is a photograph of D.H. McDougall, president of the Mining Society from 1916 to 1917.

A.S. McNeil
CA BI 80-716-4896 · Item · 1927

Item is a photograph of A.S. McNeil, Mining Society president from 1925 until 1927.

Richard Henry Brown
CA BI 77-743-877 · Item · 20th century

Item is a photograph of Richard Henry Brown who replaced his father as manager of the G.M.A.C.

Dominion #6
CA BI 78-145-1895 · Item · ca. 1920

Item is a photograph of a view of two men in front of a brick building, which was part of the Dominion #6 Colliery in Donkin.

Dominion #6
CA BI 78-146-1896 · Item · ca. 1920

Item is a photograph of a view of pit lumber at the Dominion #6 Colliery in Donkin.

CA BI 78-148-1898 · Item · ca. 1920

Item is a photograph of a view of the Dominion #6 Colliery in Donkin. Two men are standing on wooden scaffolding repairing steam pipes.

Shedden Studio
Dominion #6
CA BI 78-157-1907 · Item · ca. 1920

Item is a photograph of a view of the Dominion #6 Colliery in Donkin.

CA BI 78-229-1979 · Item · ca. 1920

Item is a photograph of the Cape Breton Electric Company office on the Esplanade in Sydney. There are two men in the foreground.

#26 Colliery, millionth ton
CA BI 79-981-3961 · Item · 1967

Item is a photograph of the millionth ton of coal that was taken from #26 Colliery.

CA BI 79-1163-4143 · Item · ca. 1900

Item is a photograph of the bankhead and colliery buildings at Inverness Railway and Coal. Co..

Miners, New Waterford
CA BI 80-16-4196 · Item · 1921

Item is a photograph of miners at #14, New Waterford, with new lamps.

CA BI 80-25-4205 · Item · 1916

Item is a photograph of the "Baum" coal washing plant of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co., Sydney Mines, showing the washery and concrete settling tank.

Coal Mining in Glace Bay
CA BI 79-453-3433 · Item · 1906

Item is a photographic postcard of a miner operating a long wall machine.

Coal Mine (unidentified)
91-562-22523 · Item · [ca. 1912]

Item is a panoramic photograph of a coal mine. At left are Sydney & Louisbourg Railway coal cars and coal conveyors; at right is a power plant.

Dodge, H. O.
CA BI 82-81-6781 · Item · 1975

Item is a photograph of a miner with the last pit pony at the #26 Colliery.

Fitzgerald, Owen
Coal Wash Plant-Sydney Mines
CA BI 2016-025 · Item · ca. 1960

Item consists of a painting of the Coal Wash Plant at Old Sydney Collieries in Sydney Mines. The painting features the coal preparation site with a man and dog sitting in the foreground.

Astephen, Georgina Schima
CA BI MG 21.20 · Fonds

Fonds consists of papers related to coal mining and other business activities of Henry Mitchell and sons as well as family records documenting life in Bridgeport (now Dominion) Nova Scotia and various locations in Pennsylvania. Correspondence between Henry and his children provide a detailed account of social, economic and political life in North America between the mid-19th and early 20th century.

Members of the Mitchell family were impacted by the American Civil War which is documented among the letters, along with various events of note in Canada including Confederation.

Mitchell, Henry