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In modern Edmonton, there are five neighbourhoods in the area within the former Town of Beverly [14] – Abbottsfield, Beacon Heights, Bergman, Beverly Heights, and Rundle Heights [15] – and the surrounding coal mines. While the coal mines are long closed, there are still many links to the old town today, from a park at the site of the ...
The 51-year old mine ceased operations in June 2020. [4] ... Dodds Coal Edmonton [10] Sheerness Mine Yes Westmoreland Coal Company Hanna [10] Vista Yes Cline Hinton
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The province of Alberta has several ghost towns that have been completely or partially abandoned. Many of Alberta's ghost towns exist as a result of a number of failed coal ...
While development of Abbottsfield did not begin until nearly a decade after the amalgamation of Beverly with Edmonton in 1961, the neighbourhood is located in an area closely associated with Beverly. Beverly was a coal mining town, and one of the major Beverly coal mines was located in the Abbottsfield area.
Shortly after arriving in Canada in 1927, a Dutch immigrant named Jacob Prins bought a farm east of Beverly in the area that is now Rundle Heights, and which included one of the larger coal mines in the Edmonton Area. [10] The farm would grow to 400 acres (1.6 km 2).
The last open pit coal mine in Alberta's Livingstone Range closed in 1983. [2] Coal mining flourished into the 20th century but by the 1970s the market for oil decreased. In 1979, Canmore Mines Ltd discontinued operations. [16] In 2015, because of a "glut of both thermal and metallurgical coal", the global price of coal was low. [18]: 11
Whitewood is a closed Canadian coal mine in Alberta just north of Lake Wabamun, about sixty-five kilometres west of Edmonton, Alberta.Owned by the TransAlta Corporation of Calgary, the mine was run by Luscar Ltd. (Edmonton) since that company acquired the extraction contract from Fording Coal Ltd. (Calgary) in 2003 until closure in 2010.
Mine Major commodities Coordinates Associated town Owner Dates Comments References; Atlas Coal Mine: Coal: Latitude: 51.4573° N Longitude: 112.7455° W East Coulee: Hillcrest Mine: Coal Latitude: 49.7764° N Longitude: 114.0395° W Hillcrest?-1939 Location of Canada's worst coal mining disaster. Whitewood mine: Coal Latitude: 50.2967° N ...