1 'Fatal accidents in metalliferous and industrial mines and quarries,' 1933-1988; in NS Department of Labour fonds,
Nova Scotia Archives RG 19 vol. 5 no. 1
2 Department of Mines, Province of Nova Scotia, 'Fatal accidents in coal mines,' 1866-1988; in NS Department of Labour fonds,
Nova Scotia Archives RG 19 vol. 5 no. 2
3 'Mines Reports', 1866-1935; annual appendices in Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia
4 'Cumberland Railway & Coal Company List of men killed in local mines from January 1881 to October 1958,' in Springhill, Cumberland Co. - Mining Disasters; Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection,
Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 vol. 231 no. 26
5 Gold Mines, 1904 - Miscellaneous; in Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection,
Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 vol. 146 no. 20
6 MG 100 vol. 174 no. 8 and RG 41 series C vol. 70 no. 20
7 MG 100 vol. 190 no. 22
8 Diary of Thomas Blinkinsop, mechanical engineer, Albion Mines, 1857-1880; in James M. Cameron fonds,
Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3219 no. 44
9 W.J. Graham Scrapbook on coal mining in Pictou County, 1910-1938 (newspaper clippings); in
Nova Scotia Archives MG 9 vol. 536: Chronicle, 6 March 1936
10 W.J. Graham Scrapbook on coal mining in Pictou County, 1910-1938 (newspaper clippings); in
Nova Scotia Archives MG 9 vol. 536: Gazette, 4 January 1911
11 Vital Statistics: Deaths
12 Gold Mines - Correspondence, 1889; in Nova Scotia Archives RG 21 vol. 20, 1889, Folder B
13 RG 32 Deaths: Pictou Co.:1865-66 p. 6 no. 18
'Inverness Railway & Coal Company Locomotive Engineer Register,' 1929-1951; in NS Department of Labour fonds, Nova Scotia Archives , RG 19, volume 4, #5 (microfilm 15675)
Coroners' Inquest case files; Nova Scotia Archives , RG 41
Ted Boutilier, ed., The New Waterford Story 1913-1963: A souvenir of New Waterford's Golden Jubilee August 4-8, 1963
14 John Hawkins, Renfrew Gold: The Story of a Nova Scotia Ghost Town (Hantsport, 1995)
Nova Scotia Archives Library: FC2349 R45 H3 1995
15 James M. Cameron, The Pictou Colliers (Halifax, 1974)
Nova Scotia Archives Library: HD9554 C32 C18
16 Coal in Our Blood, p.124
17 J. & S. McCormick, [Index to] The Presbyterian Witness Vital Statistics 1888-1908 (1995)
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