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Mountain Tragedy: The Hillcrest Mine Disaster

Canadian History Ehx by Craig Baird / Curiouscast

Mar 31, 202629:38Society & Culture

Coal mining was always dangerous, but the worst day in Canada's coal mining history came on a June day in 1914. That day saw almost 200 men never return home to their families in the mountain community of Hillcrest, Albe...

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Mountain Tragedy: The Hillcrest Mine Disaster is an episode from Canadian History Ehx by Craig Baird / Curiouscast. Coal mining was always dangerous, but the worst day in Canada's coal mining history came on a June day in 1914. That day saw...

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Published Mar 31, 2026, 29:38 long, audio available.

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