Introduction:
Equipment and technology from the early to mid 1900's

A Day in the Life of a Miner

• Morning
• Arrival
• Descent
• Bottom

As Fireboss

Jobs

Underground Stables

Introduction:
Open-Pit Mining Today

Mining

• Drilling and Blasting
• Removing the Waste Rock
• Loading Coal
• Processing Coal
  • Breaker
  • Coal-fired Dryer

Transporting Coal to the Market

Footnotes

   1Jean Barman, The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia, rev. ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996) 55.

   ²Barman 120.

   ³Bill Johnstone, Coal Dust in My Blood: The Autobiography of a Coal Miner, 2nd ed. (Victoria BC: Royal British Columbia Museum, 1993) 15.

   ⁴Johnstone 114.    

   ⁵Johnstone 114.    

   ⁶Johnstone 114.

   ⁷Johnstone 114.

   ⁸Johnstone 115.

   ⁹Johnstone 115.

   ¹⁰Johnstone 115.

   ¹¹Johnstone 115.

   ¹²Johnstone 133.

   ¹³Johnstone 133.

   ¹⁴Johnstone 133-34.

   ¹⁵Johnstone 134.

   ¹⁶Johnstone 134.

   ¹⁷Johnstone 116.

   ¹⁸Johnstone 116.

   ¹⁹Johnstone 134.

   ²⁰Johnstone 126, 134.

   ²¹Johnstone 126.

   ²²Johnstone 115.

   ²³Johnstone 115.

   ²⁴Johnstone 115.

   ²⁵Johnstone 115.