Cape Breton Miners Museum - Glace Bay
A five minute profile video to hi-lite some of the storied coal mining history of Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and the Miners Museum.
Cape Breton Miners' Museum (Glace Bay) Profile
The Miners’ Museum in Glace Bay honours the tradition of coal-mining in Cape Breton. Former miner Abbie Michalik takes you down into the deeps while museum executive director Mary Pat Mombourquette talks about the importance of the non-profit museum to the community.
Miners Museum Tour Glace Bay Nova Scotia
In 2015 we take a tour to Glace Bay, Nove Scotia and down into the mine for a tour! Join us and our tour guide Sheldon for a trip underground.
Cape Breton Miners Museum
This video is a fundraising video for the Miners Museum in Glace Bay.
The trip to Glace Bay deeply touched our hearts. Beautiful friendship between White Lelou Media and the Miners Museum began from there. It is a very important Museum, keeping stories of friendship and heroism, tragedies and great successes. WE need to keep these memories!
Glace Bay, Miners Museum, Cape Breton, Canada
Glace Bay Miners Museum, Cape Breton , Canada
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Adventures with Pete
Pete Is a Puppet that is traveling around and given video tour of place he has seen , set back and watch the show :)
All video and music were made with IMovie
Recorded with the goPro 4 Silver edition
Cape Breton Miner’s Museum
Across Canada, coal is being used less and less as a source of energy, but for generations, it was a big part of people’s lives, and an industry which employed thousands.
That was especially the case on the island of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, which is why the Cape Breton Miner’s Museum, which was built in 1967 above a former coal mine, continues to celebrate that tradition today. In Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Jennie Bovard got a tour.
Cape Breton Miners’ Museum Tour
On Cape Breton Island, you can find the Miners’ Museum. The museum pays tribute to the region’s long history of coal mining. While there, we went underground into a real mine the “Ocean Deeps Colliery”. The tour was led by a man who was a third generation coal miners. It was a great tour, here is just a bit of what we saw. info@minersmuseum.com
Cape Breton Miners' Museum Underground Tour Sept.1, 2009
The tour of the coal mine under the Cape Breton Miners' Museum in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada.
Coal Mine Explosion Story Cape Breton Miners Museum ©DMNikas
This is a true story told by Cape Breton coal mine 1979 explosion survivor Abbie Michalik - he carried the body of Michael Fabian (Fabe) Young to the surface after a tragic Gas Explosion at #26 Colliery, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia - This brief video clip was captured by International Travel Photographer DMNikas ©August, 2007 - The photograph of 'Fabe' that is used as the official Miners Museum promo-photo was taken by Cape Breton photographer Warren Gordon two weeks before 'Fabe's' tragic death in the mine explosion.
Coal mining is one of the hardest + most dangerous occupations in the world!
Glace Bay Gleaner feature article by Jay McNeil:
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Cape Breton Miners Museum - Mine Tour
Short clip from inside the mine at the Cape Breton Miners Museum in Glace Bay, NS Canada
Cape Breton Miners Museum
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Haunts From The Cape. Paranormal Investigation. Cape Breton Miners Museum
Audio captured during our investigation of the Cape Breton Miners Museum.
Haunts From The Cape
Cape Breton Miners Museum
Cape Breton Miners Museum
Meet a retired miner and go deep underground in an actual coal mine. Discover the heroic and heart-wrenching stories of how these men helped build a nation.
Nicknames
Donnie Campbell details coal miners and their nicknames.
Glace Bay,Dominion And Reserve Mines Cape Breton NS (June 14/09)
Glace Bay,Dominion And Reserve Mines Cape Breton NS(Music By Dave Matthews Band Lying In The Hands Of God)
Glace Bay (2001 pop. 16,984) is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton and is situated at: 46°11'49N, 59°57'25W.
Formerly an independently incorporated town (1901-1995), the municipal government in Glace Bay was dissolved and the community has been amalgamated into the larger regional municipality. Prior to amalgamation, Glace Bay had been the province's fourth largest urban area and was the largest town in Nova Scotia (in population).
Suburbs include: Reserve Mines, Dominion, Tower Road.
History
As early as the 1720s the French inhabited the area to supply Fortress Louisbourg with coal[1]. They named the location Baie de Glace (literally, Ice Bay) because of the sea ice which filled the ocean each winter. Following the formation of the Dominion Coal Company in 1893, a number of mines were opened in what was destined to become Glace Bay. Small communities grew up around the mines and by 1901 they came together to form the Town of Glace Bay. At the time of incorporation, the population was 6,945.[2]By the 1940s, the figure exceeded 28,000 and Glace Bay became Canada's largest town (in population).[3] In its heyday, the town had 12 collieries but none remain. The industrial decline has seen the population decrease to 16,984 as of 2001[4] and has been dissolved/deincorporated since municipal amalgamation in 1995 which formed the Cape Breton Regional
Economy
Glace Bay was once a prosperous coal mining town. In 1860 the Glace Bay Mining Company was formed and it operated two mines. The first large colliery, the Hub Shaft, opened in 1861. Large-scale mining commenced in 1893 after exclusive mining rights were granted to the Dominion Coal Company. Glace Bay was incorporated as a town nine years later. At its high point the company operated eleven mines in all, and was responsible for 40% of Canada's coal production. Coal was transported on the Sydney and Louisburg Railway to both of those ports for shipping. The S & L Railway's main operations, including the roundhouse and machine shops were located in Glace Bay. Glace Bay's extensive coal and rail operations made the town the industrial center of Cape Breton. As coal mining became less important, the mines were closed until, in 1984 Colliery No. 26 was closed by the Cape Breton Development Corporation. Many residents of Glace Bay started to work at the two other coal mines in the area: Prince Colliery in Point Aconi and Phalen Colliery and Lingan Colliery in Lingan. However, coal mining continued its decline with Lingan closing in the mid-1990s, followed by Phalen in 1999, and Prince in 2001.
Fishing was also an important industry throughout the 20th century. However, by the 1990s fish stocks were so depleted that the fishery was closed. Some fish processing still occurs here.
Present day
The former town of Glace Bay has a population of slightly fewer than 17,000 people. The people of Glace Bay are very proud of their mining heritage and efforts continue to be made to revive the town's economy. In 2001, the addition of a call centre operated by Stream Global Services, using post-industrialization subsidies, has been a positive influence for the local economy, creating job opportunities and raising demand for labour in general. The current unemployment rate, while high compared to other areas in Canada, is at historically low rate for the area.
The Australian mining consortium Xstrata is the primary partner in the Donkin Coal Development Alliance, which won the rights to develop an abandoned mine site in the nearby community of Donkin. If developed, this project is expected to add 300 jobs to the Glace Bay economy.
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Cape Breton Coal Mine - Glace Bay, Nova Scotia - 2007
2007 Tour of the coal mine.
The Glace Bay Miners' Museum
In Glace Bay, romance blossoms between Neil Currie -- a musician and misfit with limited job prospects -- and scrappy Margaret MacNeil, a coal miner's daughter. But behind it all, a strike and a mining disaster loom over the community. At once lyrical and tough, poignant and funny, this celebrated stage adaptation of Sheldon Currie's novel digs deep into the issues of the forgotten and exploited, honouring and celebrating the people of Cape Breton. The play will run at the National Arts Centre from October 16 through November 3, 2012.
HAUNTS FROM THE CAPE - CAPE BRETON MINERS MUSEUM - HAUNTED - PARANORMAL - NOVA SCOTIA
Small clip from the Cape Breton Miners Museum Investigation
16 Tons of Cape Breton Coal
Old mining song set to pictures from the Cape Breton Miners Tribute Page
A drive around Glace Bay
A little drive around Glace Bay