Image: Leslie Shedden's photograph of Dosco's underground mining operations in Cape Breton, No. 18 Colliery, 1953. This view is of the Dosco Miner in action, with the cutting job gouging into the coal face on the downward cycle.
Image: In the summer of 1993, historian Thomas Dublin began an oral history project in the Panther Valley, interviewing men and women who lived through the closing of area mines and garment factories. George Harvan provided helpful leads as the interviewing…
Image: When I went to the breaker first I was very young, My mother was left with a family and I the only son; My father he was taken, I hope his soul's at rest --He was crushed to death by a fall of coal while working in his breast.
Image: Little I thought when I grew old and mining could do no more, I'd go back to the breaker where I spent my days before. This world is full of trouble, hardship, care and strife, It's twice a boy and once a man, is a poor miner's life.
Image: There came to this country a short time ago, A poor Irish widow from the County Mayo. She had but one son, his age it was eight, And the boss gave him work picking slate. The first day at the breaker the boys all did stare, For poor little Mike was…