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The Foundation Company of Canada Limited was a Canadian construction company that operated from 1924 to 1999. The company's origins lay in New York City, where the Foundation Company was founded in 1902. In 1909, Foundation was invited by the Canadian Pacific Railway to build caissons as part of the construction on Windsor Station in Montreal ...
The Canadian Landmine Foundation (French: La Fondation des Mines Terrestres du Canada) is a Canadian charity that seeks to "raise awareness and funds to end the human and economic suffering caused by anti-personnel landmines". [1]
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The following lists of mines in Canada are subsidiaries to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output and province. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
The first truly industrial mining operation in what is now Canada was an iron mine at Forges du Saint-Maurice near Trois-Rivières in Quebec, which remained a going concern from 1738 to 1883. [1] Copper mining in Bruce Mines, Ontario—the first industrial-scale mine of a substance other than iron—followed in 1848. [2]
The 8th level of the Keeley Mine connected with the 6th level of the Frontier Mine in 1962, [1]: 42 creating the two compartment Keeley-Frontier Mine. In 1965, Keeley-Frontier Mine closed with a total production of 19,000,000 oz (540,000,000 g) of silver , 3,300,000 lb (1,500,000 kg) of cobalt , 27,000 lb (12,000 kg) of nickel and 10,000 lb ...
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From 1930 and 1995, the "Canadian mining giant Teck Resources Ltd." [49] had "discharged about 400 tons of slag daily — an estimated 9.97 million tons in total" [48] — directly into the Upper Columbia River. The company's smelter in Trail, British Columbia was blamed in 2003 for heavily contaminating the Columbia River. [50]