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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McGillvary | William 2nd | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McPhee | Neil | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Nicholson | Malcolm | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Sherlock | Robert A. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Armishaw | Herbert | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Lowther | William | 1900 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Leg broken in fall of stone at working face |
| Foster | Archie | 1904 | Cumberland | Aberdeen | Caught between box and chute; died on beaching bank |
| Delaney | Douglas | 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Killed by runaway box |
| Gillespie | David | 1916 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by cage |
| Jones | Hezekiah | 1922 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone and coal from face |
| Brown | George D. | 1926 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Carter | Ralston | 1935 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by full car on back slope |
| Weatherbee | Lorne A. | 1942 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by trip |
| Pashkoski or Pasoshki | Alexander | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Killed by haulage |
| Skelton or Skilton | Hollis T. | 1952 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Knowlton | Everett | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone; 1 of 3 killed |
| Clarke | Kenneth | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| McLeod | Henry | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Bunton | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Massive gas and coal dust explosioni |
| Allen | Fidele | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Legere | Alfred | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Frank | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Ross | Robert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McMasters | Earl J. | 1969 | Cumberland | Springhill, Syndicate Mine or Springhill No. 1 | Struck by empty trip |
| Dunlap | Robert | 1928 | Colchester | Kempton or Riversdale | Fell off tub in shaft |
| Deveau | Willie V. | 1966 | Inverness | Evans Mine | Killed by haulage |
| Lambyi | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| McDonald | Saunders | 1940 | Inverness | inverness No. 4 | Struck by runaway box |
| McNeil | Neil S. | 1911 | Inverness | Inverness | Run over by balance cage, died 3 hours later |
| Dixon | Alex | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Large | August | 1921 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall down chute |
| McDonnell | Dan | 1927 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| McNeil | John | 1927 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Crushed by full boxes of coal |
| Doucet | J. S. | 1941 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of stone |
| LeBlanc | Joseph | 1923 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Found dead in boiler room; may have fallen |
| McDougall | Daniel | 1924 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone; 1 of 4 killed |
| Merritt | John | 1903 | Inverness | Port Hood | Riding trip coupling broke hurling boxes against roof |
| Fraser | Robert | 1909 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of roof coal; bled to death from injuries |
| MacDonald | Alexander | 1922 | Inverness | bootleg pit | Methane gas poisoning; 1 of 3 killed |
| McIsaac | Neil | 1924 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone; 1 of 4 killed |
| Muise | Patrick | 1946 | Inverness | Inverness | Killed by haulage |
| Fraser | John Clarence | 1938 | Inverness | Port Hood or Henderson | Fall of stone |
| MacDonald | Donald R. | 1922 | Inverness | bootleg pit | Methane gas poisoning; 1 of 3 killed |
| McIsaac | Archibald A. | 1924 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone; 1 of 4 killed |
| Poirier | Joseph | 1941 | Inverness | Inverness | Crushed between machine amd chock pack |
| Aird | Finlay | 1907 | Inverness | Inverness | Fell from riding rake on main slope |
| Gilliam | Robert | date unknown | Inverness | Inverness | cause not recorded |
| MacDonald | James | 1922 | Inverness | bootleg pit | Methane gas poisoning; 1 of 3 killed |
| McIsaac | Daniel C. | 1924 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone; 1 of 4 killed |
| Powelle | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |