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Alberta Mine Rescue Car | |||
Alberta's first mine rescue station was established at Blairmore in 1911. It was in response to an explosion in the West Canadian Collieries mine at Bellevue on 10 December 1910. Thirty-one men lost their lives. The Blairmore Mine Rescue Station served as a model for stations organized in 1912 and 1913 at Lethbridge and Coalhurst. Alberta realizing the importance of rescue work in a Province that had so many coal mines, also equipped a railway car - Mine Rescue Car No. 1, which was at first stationed in Blairmore, but also toured mining camps in both B.C. and Alberta.
By 1919 there were three mine rescue cars and six mine rescue
stations in use throughout the coal fields of the province.
Duncan McDonald had become General Superintendent of Mine Rescue
Stations and Cars. |
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