Men in the Mines

A History of Mining Activity in Nova Scotia, 1720-1992

Published in the Canadian Illustrated News, 20 December 1873, p. 388. The paper stated on p. 395: “The Emery Colliery, of which we give a representation on another page, is one of four already in successful operation, recently purchased by the ‘Cape Breton Company', a powerful corporation of British capitalists who have for their objects the development on a gigantic scale of the mineral wealth of that valuable island, the construction of the Louisburg & other lines of railways and possibly the extensive manufacture of iron of which immense deposits have been proven to exist within a short distance of the Company’s coal properties. The Emery Mine, now only a twelve months old, has rapidly and successfully developed under the direction of F.N. Gisborne, Esq. and his assistant Albert J. Hill, Esq., and will be in a position the coming season to ship 100,000 tons of coal of a quality unsurpassed by any on the island.”

Date: 1873

Reference:   Nova Scotia Archives  Library: O/S F80 C16n: 1873