Coal Mining Fatalities
This database contains 2497 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martin | Roderick | 1917 | Pictou County | Albion | Suffocated in his draeger machine due to carbonic acid leak |
| McDonald | Daniel J. | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McInnis | John | 1872 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of coal |
| McLeise | Bertram | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McPherson | Lemuel | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Moss | Albert | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Nash | John | 1881 | Pictou County | Acadia | Devastating methane explosion |
| Passino | Lucien or Lucino | 1916 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Ramsey | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Rodgers | William | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sample | Winton | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Small | John D. | 1900 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Stewart | James | 1906 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| Thompson | Melvin | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Webb | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Young | Thomas | 1870 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Fall of coal |
| Baker | Thomas | 1900 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Derailed rake |
| Benoit | Merle | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | influx of water; 1 of 6 killed |
| Bowens | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Cameron | Kenneth | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Campbell | Percy | 1946 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft Wash Plant | Injured putting up a door bar, died a week later |
| Colburn | William | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Crawford | Edward | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Debodt | Frank | 1925 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 3 (Six-Foot) | Fall of coal |
| Dunn | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Flemming | James E. | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Fraser | Archie | 1890 | Pictou County | Vale | Run over in a back balance |
| Gillis | Hugh | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hale | Samuel | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hawes | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Howatt | Timothy | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Johnson | Peter | 1957 | Pictou County | McBean | Fall of coal |
| Kingou | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of coal |
| Leshambre | Pierre | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lyall | Matthew | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacDonald or Greenwood | William A. | 1933 | Pictou County | Milford | Fall of stone |
| MacKenzie | Frank | 1909 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed on balance by runaway box |
| MacLeod | James | 1903 | Pictou County | Acadia | Died 15 February |
| Martin | George | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| McDonald | Colin | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McInnis | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McLellan | James | 1884 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| McRae | Duncan | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Muir | Robert | 1921 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Fall of stone |
| Nearing | Joseph | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Pembroke | Michael | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Rector | Ruben | 1932 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Rogers | Thomas | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sampler | Samuel Jr. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Smillie | Thomas | 1941 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by a haulage rope |