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Blood on the Coal

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Blood on the Coal

Ken Cuthbertson
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The riveting true story of one of Canada's worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it

They said it was the world's deepest and most dangerous coal mine. Those who made that claim were probably correct. What is certain is that in October 1958, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation's No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, was a leading candidate for both those dubious distinctions. The mine was the proverbial "disaster waiting to happen." And it did.

Springhill was the quintessential one-industry town, whose existence depended on coal, a commodity with a dying market. And yet something far worse was soon to come. On the night of October 23, 1958, a "bump" in the mine—actually a small earthquake—shook the ground beneath the town. Seventy-five miners died and scores more were injured in what remains one of Canada's worst underground disasters. The lives of the survivors were shattered, and Springhill would...

عام:
2023
الناشر:
HarperCollins Canada
اللغة:
english
ISBN 10:
144346791X
ISBN 13:
9782023043806
ملف:
EPUB, 28.29 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2023
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