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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hogan | James | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by riding rake, died 2 days later |
| Gordon | Henry | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| Boutilier | Charles | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Young | Fred | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| McDonald | Alex P. | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Crushed between boxes |
| Dewan | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| McMullin | John William | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| Kennedy | James | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of roof |
| Weeks | Archie | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Cathcart | Gordon | 1950 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Wilfred | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage, surface |
| Cathcart | Lionel | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage, surface |
| McMullin | Michael | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Gaul | Patrick | 1956 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| McVicar | John | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Blois | John | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Four Star | Fall of stone |
| Conran | Andrew | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| MacIntosh | Bernard | 1963 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Baxter | Robert | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage: Hit by runaway box |
| MacIntosh | Anthony | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion Glace Bay Shops Department | Natural Causes |
| Poirier | Alex | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Anderson | James R. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| MacRae | Harry | 1985 | Cape Breton County | Prince | Motor vehicle accident |
| Bartholemew or Bartholomew | Louis | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Bigney | Edward | 1910 | Pictou County | Acadia | Run over by a box of coal |
| Brown | Leo | 1919 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a cage in a balance |
| Cameron | John W. | 1946 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by coal trip on main slope |
| Cassey | Thomas | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Connolly | C. | 1880 | Pictou County | Vale | Burned by gas ignited by his open-flame lamp |
| Cunningham | Robert | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Downs | William B. | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Scalded or burned, causes unknown; a machinist making repairs |
| Elliott | William | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Foley | Pat | 1885 | Pictou County | Vale | Devastating methane explosion |
| Fraser | Hiram | 1920 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 3 (Six-Foot) | Struck by railway car on surface |
| Glenwright | Thomas | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hallam | Ernest | 1959 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Fall of coal |
| Hayman | Wilbert | 1921 | Pictou County | McGregor | Fall of coal |
| Ince | William | 1938 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Caught by fall of rock |
| Jones | Edward | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Laderie | Jules | 1924 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck down by a runaway box |
| Linthorne | Walter | 1969 | Pictou County | McBean | Caught in coal-cutting machine |
| MacDonald | D. | 1869 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Powder explosion |
| MacInnis | Hugh | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide suffocation after explosion; 1 of 4 killed |
| MacKenzie | Hugh | 1918 | Pictou County | Albion | Crushed by cars |
| MacMillan | Daniel L | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Mazur | John | 1931 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of Coal |
| McEachern | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McKay | Thomas | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McLeod | William | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Mintis | William | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |