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The Second or Great Explosion From the "Slopes", Canadian Illustrated News, May 31, 1873. The Drummond Mine explosion, also called the Drummond Colliery Disaster, was a mining accident that happened in Westville, Pictou County, Nova Scotia on May 13, 1873. In the 1870s, the Drummond mine was considered Canada's leading colliery.
Following the closure of the last working mine in the 1970s, Pictou County's hopes for a mining renaissance were revived with the announcement of a proposed mine in the region in the late 1980s. [1] The timing was perfect, politically, since the region had elected a fledgling leader of the federal opposition, Brian Mulroney , in a 1983 by ...
Pictou County is a county in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was established in 1835, and was formerly a part of Halifax County from 1759 to 1835. It had a population of 43,657 people in 2021, a decline of 0.2 percent from 2016.
A 36-year-old Annville woman was in a fatal crash that shutdown Route 322 Friday morning, according to the Derry Township Police Department. At 3:28am, police responded to the 800 block of East ...
Mar. 28—Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An Adams woman was one of three people who suffered injuries resulting from a two-vehicle crash in Goodhue County early Thursday morning..
A barque that ran aground off Pictou. HMS Tribune Royal Navy: 16 November 1797 A frigate that sank off Herring Cove: Two Friends: 22 October 1805 A sailing ship wrecked on the coast of Cape Breton Island. U-548 Kriegsmarine
Dec. 2—Highway 34 claimed three lives Friday as an afternoon accident near Murray resulted in one deceased and an evening crash in Union County killed two teenagers. According to the Iowa State ...
May 9, 1992: Westray Mine, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. 26 killed in a methane and coal dust explosion. May 9, 1993: Nambija mine disaster, Nambija, Ecuador. Approximately 300 people were killed in a landslide; May 13, 1993: Middelbult colliery near the town of Secunda in South Africa. 53 people killed in an underground methane explosion. [83]