Men in the Mines

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

16 pages; "Paper read August 31st, 1912, by R. Drummond, South C.B. Mining Society." Reminiscences of working conditions in Cape Breton mines as recorded by Robert Drummond, an agent of the Provincial Workmen's Association. Drummond has been called "one of the most significant figures of 19th-century Canadian labour history." A coalminer, trade union leader, journalist and politician, he was born in Scotland, 1840, emigrated to Nova Scotia ca.1865; died in Stellarton, 1925; and was buried in Springhill.

Date: 1912

Reference:   Nova Scotia Archives  Library: VF vol. 308 no. 23