Coal Mining Fatalities
This database contains 2498 known Nova Scotia coal mining fatalities. Names, dates, places, mines, and causes of death have been painstakingly compiled. Despite this, it is by no means a complete list. Fatalities occurred before records were kept; descriptions of incidents and those involved were lost along with coal company records. Official recording of multiple deaths may have missed some names; in some cases, names are misspelled. However, this is likely the most complete list that exists. Please contact us if you know names to add.
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| Surname | Given Name(s) |
Year |
County | Mine | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hale | Samuel | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Dunn | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McDonald | Hugh | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Dunn | Philip | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McDonald | Duncan | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacKinnon | Donald | 1873 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Fall of coal |
| McDonald | Daniel J. | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Taylor | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Vale | Fall with tub in slope |
| Rodgers | William | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Elliott | John T | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McDonald | Colin | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Bennett | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Elliott | William | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Ellis | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sinclair | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McLeod | Oliver | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Emery | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Chisholm | Colin C. | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Dalling | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Freeman | Henry | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Andrews | William | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of coal |
| Smith | Angus | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McElvie | John Sr | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Turnbull | William | 1873 | Pictou County | Vale | Under a falling derrick |
| Downie | John | 1873 | Cape Breton County | International | Run over by train |
| Burney | George | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McElvie | John Jr | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McLean | Joseph | 1873 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by train |
| McNeal | David | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Ruddick | Edward | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Neville | john | 1873 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by train |
| McNeal | John Jr. | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Burns | Edward | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Ryan | Alexander | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of coal |
| Cameron | Archibald | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Jones | Edward | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lockhart | Charles | 1874 | Cumberland | Scotia (Northern) | Fall of coal |
| Foley | Martin | 1874 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Crash of a runaway rake |
| Stewart | William | 1874 | Pictou County | Black Diamond | Fall of coal |
| Jackson | W. C. | 1874 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Rope broke on bucket going down pump shaft |
| Cummings | Hector | 1874 | Pictou County | Vale | Crash of runaway rake on main slope |
| Cameron | Michael | 1874 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | |
| Potts | John | 1874 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Rope broke on bucket going down pump shaft |
| Campbell | Hector | 1875 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Run over by loaded wagons |
| Fraser | Alexander | 1875 | Pictou County | Black Diamond | Crushed by moving coal tub against a doorpost |
| Fosse | Jean Baptiste | 1876 | Pictou County | Vale | Fall of coal |
| Livingstone | Joseph | 1876 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Fall of coal |
| Townsend | Leonard | 1876 | Cumberland | Spring Hill Colliery Mine | Crushed by drum, fall of a gin |
| McNeil | Henry | 1876 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | cause not recorded |
| MacDonald | Murdock | 1877 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Explosion of boiler; 1 of 3 killed |