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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Muller | William | 1912 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of top coal at face of pillar |
| Nicholson | John | 1881 | Pictou County | Vale | Caught between moving rake & door |
| Perris or Paris | A. | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell when staging broke in shaft as they were sinking it |
| Reid | Robert | 1868 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of earth on surface; working on rail line |
| Ross | Alexander | 1911 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Struck by a rake |
| Scott | Joseph | 1923 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Smith | Howard | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Sullivan | Peter | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Vaast | Lucien (boy) | 1916 | Pictou County | Thom or Tom pit | Gas explosion at mouth of abandoned slope; boy was chasing a ball |
| Wilkes | John | 1902 | Pictou County | Marsh | Dynamite explosion in office; frozen sticks put near heat to thaw; 1 of 3 killed |
| Lockhart | Charles | 1874 | Cumberland | Scotia (Northern) | Fall of coal |
| Cormier | John | 1907 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Caught between car and bankhead |
| Burbine | John | 1913 | Cumberland | Joggins | Runaway boxes |
| Nicholson | James | 1922 | Cumberland | Minudie #2 | Powder ignited by cartridge explosion, died 12 days later; 1 of 2 killed |
| Quinn | George W. | 1931 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 4 (Bright Light Mine) | Explosion; 1 of 6 killed |
| Porter | Melburn Parker | 1944 | Cumberland | Standard (Sweetcake) or Strathcona No.2 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Donald | 1885 | Cumberland | Westville or Springhill mine | Died after breaking legs |
| Brown | William | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Clark or Clarke | Robert | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Furbow | Samuel | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Martin | George | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McNeil | John F. or John P. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Murphy | Jeremiah | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Rogers | Thomas | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Williams | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Burrows | John | 1897 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of roof stone on new balance no. 9 |
| Fisher | Henry | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of coal |
| Davidson | Adam | 1908 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fell into chute |
| Caulfield or Canfield | Peter | 1914 or 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by runaway boxes; 1 of 2 killed |
| Turner | Joseph | 1919 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| McPherson | Hugh | 1924 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Caught between full box and timber |