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By 1859, 25,000 tons of coal had been shipped from Nanaimo, mostly to San Francisco. In 1862 the HBC sold its coal interests to an English Company known as the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company (VCML). Output was 100 tons a day by 1863 and double that by 1866. By 1874, annual production was 80,000 tons and it was 10 times that by 1884.
On the existing PCCM Fiddick railway line, [2] work commenced on the Morden mine shafts (nos. 3 and 4) in 1912, but the coal seam was not reached until a year later. [3] A yearlong strike in 1913–1914 allowed the new shafts to flood. At this time, the 22.7-metre (74.5 ft) high concrete headframe was constructed. During 1915–1916, work in ...
The Nanaimo mine explosion occurred on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia killing 150 miners. Only seven miners survived and the mine burned for one full day. No 1 Esplanade Explosion Monument (see gallery for text detail) The explosion started deep underground in the Number One Coal Mine after explosives were laid improperly.
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Opened around 1860 by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), Douglas Mine, in today's downtown Nanaimo, was the first coalmine in the region. While fishing about 8 kilometres (5 mi) northwest at Diver Lake in 1869, former HBC employee Robert Dunsmuir observed evidence of coal deposits, in what he would call the Wellington seam.
Louis Stark, an African American, lived in today's Colvilletown neighbourhood of south Nanaimo. Many suspected foul play when his body was found at the bottom of a cliff in 1895. One theory claimed he had refused to sell his coal rich land to Dunsmuir coal, desperately seeking new sources to replace its nearly exhausted Wellington mine. [1]
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List of coal mines and landmarks in the Nanaimo area; F. Flannel Jimmy; I. Island Rail Corridor; Island Timberlands; N. 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion; Nanaimo bar ...