http://www.dominionpaper.ca/taxonomy/term/1915/0 en http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/dawn/2257 <p>Today is the 50th anniversary of the third Springhill coal mine disaster. </p> <p>The CBC has some <a href="http://archives.cbc.ca/economy_business/natural_resources/topics/111-599/">archival TV footage</a> from the days following the disaster. Seventy four men were killed in the disaster, and 100 miners were trapped underground for almost nine days before being freed.</p> <p>Prior to the deadly events of 1958, there were two large mine disasters at Nova Scotia's Springhill Mine, one in 1956, and another in 1891.</p> http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/dawn/2257#comments Mining Atlantic Nova Scotia Springhill Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:24:57 +0000 dawn 2257 at http://www.dominionpaper.ca