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Springhill

Provincial Highway 104 to Highway 2, Sand Hill (Amherst)

Springhill is a town steeped in the coal-mining tradition. The Springhill Miner's Museum sits on the site of a former coal mine. Many men of African descent worked the mines. Men like Maurice Reddick, the 'Singing Miner'. In 1958, Maurice Reddick and a number of fellow colliers were trapped underground for 8 days during the Springhill Mining disaster. Lady luck smiled on these men, for they lived to tell their tales, whereas many others, caught in similar circumstances, did not. Come pay tribute to those men of 'the deeps'.

 

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Springhill Miner's Museum
Trans-Canada Highway 104 to Rt. #2, 145 Black River Road

Explore the land of the deeps, tour a mine - if you dare! It takes a brave heart to go into the very bowels of the earth.

Open May-October , 9:00 am - 5:00 pm daily.
Tel.: 1.902.597.3449

 

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