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tree-shaded streets of Springhill, Nova Scotia (pop. 7,000) into the deepest mine in North America. Before the shift ended, more than half were trapped underground in Canada’s worst mine ...

I was reminded of that while doing research into the Springhill mine disaster that my late Nova-Scotia-born mother sometimes talked about. This year marks the 65th anniversary of that October ...

That’s when death came calling. “At the surface (in Springhill), people … felt a bump,” a Nova Scotia Energy and Mines senior geologist would say many years later. “That wouldn’t ...

Born in Springhill, Brine left his job as an auto mechanic in 1951 to work in the mine. He was 19 years old. The dangerous, back-breaking job paid more, he said. Five years later, on Nov. 1, 1956, ...

Born in Springhill, Brine left his job as an auto mechanic in 1951 to work in the mine. He was 19 years old. The dangerous, back-breaking job paid more, he said. Five years later, on Nov. 1 ...