Four months after the riot at Waterford Lake power plant, BESCO policeman, Joseph MacLeod, appeared in a Sydney court for a ...

Australia-headquartered St Barbara is moving forward with plans to consolidate operations in Nova Scotia, Canada, around a ...

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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 ...

While you’re in the area, be sure to visit the Springhill Coal Miners Museum for a chance to step into a mine and see more of the community’s history. Discover more travel stories that explore the ...

Plan an amazing road trip through Cumberland County, Nova ... the Springhill Coal Miners Museum. These two museums tell a vivid story about the history of Springhill, with Anne Murray’s remarkable ...

Anne Murray reminisces in the forward of a new book about growing up in Springhill ... to be a Black Afro-Nova Scotian. But by then it was too late for the state to rescind the invitation. The working ...

He had ventured to the Nickel City to land a mining job and go to work in the bowels of Mother Earth, much like his father and his grandfathers had done before him back home in Nova Scotia.

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 ...

But though the first mine water power station is on European ground, the technology was harnessed nearly two decades earlier in Springhill, Nova Scotia. Synonymous with mining disasters ...