Coal Mining in Lethbridge

Section of Irene McCaugherty's "Boats Barges Belly River Coalbanks to Medicine Hat 1883-1884 1890."

Exhibit Contnents

1. The History of Coal Mining in Lethbridge
2. The Discovery of Coal by Nicholas Sheran
3. Nicholas Sheran's Mines
4. The Galt Family
5. William Stafford
6. The North Western Coal and Navigation Company
7. The Bull Trains
8. Steamers and Barges
9. The Turkey Trail
10. Types of Mines
11. Ore Cars
12. Removing the Coal
13. Horses
14. The Inclined Railway
15. Productivity of the Mines
16. Coal Unions
17. Gas in the Lethbridge Mines
18. Disasters and Accidents
19. Mine Rescue Stations
20. Growth of a Mining Town
21. Prostitution
22. Illegal Coal Mining
23. Ethnic Diversity in a Coal Town
24. Miner's Library
25. Conclusion
26. Coal Industry Chronology

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