Coal in Canada
Author | : K. Morgan MacRae |
Publisher | : Calgary : Canadian Energy Research Institute |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : K. Morgan MacRae |
Publisher | : Calgary : Canadian Energy Research Institute |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Delphin Andrew Muise |
Publisher | : National Museum of Science & Technology |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Roderick Hinde |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780774809368 |
The town of Ladysmith was one of the most important coal-mining communities on Vancouver Island during the early twentieth century. The Ladysmith miners had a reputation for radicalism and militancy and engaged in bitter struggles for union recognition and economic justice, most notably during the Great Strike of 1912-14. This strike, one of the longest and most violent labour disputes in Canadian history, marked a watershed in the history of the town and the coal industry. When Coal Was King illuminates the origins of the 1912-14 strike by examining the development of the coal industry on Vancouver Island, the founding of Ladysmith, the experience of work and safety in the mines, the process of political and economic mobilization, and how these factors contributed to the development of identity and community. While the Vancouver Island coal industry and the strike have been the focus of a number of popular histories, this book goes beyond to emphasize the importance of class, ethnicity, gender, and community in creating the conditions for the emergence and mobilization of the working-class population. Informed by currend academic debates on the matter and within the discipline, this readable history takes into account extensive archival research, and will appeal to historians and others interested in the history of Vancouver Island.
Author | : Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Minerals |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Delphin Andrew Muise |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Author | : T. H. Patching |
Publisher | : Calgary : Canada West Foundation |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : |
From the Conclusion: Canada is a major consumer of energy and has depended on oil for much of its growth...Other fuels and sources of energy will have to be developed in Canada in the next two decades to supplement and substitute for dwindling supplies of conventional oil...Wind, solar and perhaps tidal power may be able to contribute in a small way...Natural gas, heavy oil, oil sands, hydro and nuclear power are available...All of these sources of enery will be required but they will still be inadequate to meet total needs in Canada. Clearly coal, Canada's major energy resource, must be exploited. Coal is available in western Canada in abundance, it can be produced at costs that are competitive with other sources of new energy, and it can be used efficiently and safely. Its development can assist in providing Canada's domestic needs, it can provide spin-off beneftis to otlher industries, and it can help to improve our balance of trade ane expenditures abroad. Substantial benefits will acrue to Canada as a whole, and to western Canada in particular, from the exploitation of this important resource.
Author | : Robert Gordon McIntosh |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780773520936 |
Beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of Canadian boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground - driving pit ponies along narrow passageways, manipulating ventilation doors, and helping miners cut and load coal at the coalface to produce the energy that fuelled Canada's industrial revolution. Boys died in the mines in explosions and accidents but they also organised strikes for better working conditions but were instead expelled from the mines and lost their jobs.Boys in the Pits shows the rapid maturity of the boys and their role in resisting exploitation. In what will certainly be a controversial interpretation of child labour, Robert McIntosh recasts wage-earning children as more than victims, showing that they were individuals who responded intelligently and resourcefully to their circumstances.Boys in the Pits is particularly timely as, despite the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, accepted by the General assembly in 1989, child labour still occurs throughout the world and continues to generate controversy. McIntosh provides an important new perspective from which to consider these debates, reorienting our approach to child labour, explaining rather than condemning the practice. Within the broader social context of the period, where the place of children was being redefined as - and limited to - the home, school, and playground, he examines the role of changing technologies, alternative sources of unskilled labour, new divisions of labour, changes in the family economy, and legislation to explore the changing extent of child labour in the mines.Robert McIntosh is employed at the National Archives of Canada.