2 miners underground working a coal seam. Photograph, 1900s, C166-009, No.6 Mine Album, Cumberland Museum and Archives, Canada, https://www.flickr.com/photos/cumberlandmuseum/6961043111/in/album-72157629074146400.
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Fire boss with gas indicating safety lamp/coal cutter with power driven chain to pull it around and feed it into the low ceiling seam. Coal. first it was electrically driven but later switched to compressed air. Photograph, n.d., C160-039, Mining – General Photos Album, Cumberland Museum and Archives, Canada, https://www.flickr.com/photos/cumberlandmuseum/6814920484/in/album-72157629438536307.
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In a rare photograph, Oriental miners work in light of open flame lamps. Two seams of hard coal separated by dirt or soft coal reflect light. photograph, n.d. In Boss Whistle: The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember, by Lynne Bowen. Oolichan Books, 1982, between 96 and 97.
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Mine rescue workers holding a canary in a cage to check gasses in the mine. Photograph, C175-033, Mine Rescue Album, Cumberland Museum and Archives, Canada, https://www.flickr.com/photos/cumberlandmuseum/6814933046/in/album-72157629439073441/.
“Miners may strike, is now threatened, unless raise made.” The Vancouver Sun, August 5, 1912. https://www.proquest.com/hnpvancouversun/docview/2239611003/3108BB9E1DEE4D8EPQ/84?accountid=12246&sourcetype=Newspapers.
Miners’ wives and children parade behind the union’s brass band as part of a mass procession down the main street of Ladysmith in 1913 during the Great Coal Strike of 1912–14. Their support was crucial to maintaining the long, difficult dispute. Photograph, n.d. In On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement, by Rod Mickleburgh. Harbour Publishing, 2018, 55.
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Ray Knight, The Ladysmith May Day parade. Photograph, n.d. In When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island, by John Hinde. UBC Press, 2003, 168.
Small boy holding united mine workers journal. Photograph, 1912, C110-128, Ginger Goodwin Labour and Miners Memorial Day Album, Cumberland Museum and Archives, Canada, https://www.flickr.com/photos/cumberlandmuseum/6814898050/in/album-72157629432817125.
Two miners, underground, in a short seam with large chunks of coal one is holding a safety lamp. Photograph, pre 1920, C160-021, Mining – General Photos Album, Cumberland Museum and Archives, Canada, https://www.flickr.com/photos/cumberlandmuseum/6814920438/in/album-72157629438536307.
