A helicopter is "weathered in" at a camp high up in the Mackenzie Mountains.
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1979
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A helicopter is "weathered in" at a camp high up in the Mackenzie Mountains.
British Columbia
1979
âNotre Empire du Nord,â La Gazette du Nord. May 6, 1932. Page 8. ---- PALMAROLLE ET SES NOUVEAUX COLONS ---- Au pays des mines, Ă une dizaine de milles du chemin de fer National du Canada, traversĂ© par une riviĂšre poissonneuse qui se jette dans le lac Abitibi. Palniarolle offre des avantages sĂ©rieux aux familles qui veulent Ă©tablir leurs nombreux enfants. Ce sol dâalluvions argileux, dĂ©frichĂ©, Ă©gouttĂ© et bien cultivĂ©, produit en quantitĂ© le mil, le trĂšfle, les grains, les lĂ©gumineuses et les lĂ©gumes. Cette rĂ©gion deviendra fameuse pour lâindustrie laitiĂšre lâelevage et la culture mixte.
Il y a Ă peine dix ans il ne se rĂ©coltait pas la 50 bottes de foin. On en fauche maintenant des millier.s de tonnes. Lâan dernier, en plus de 10,000 minots de grain de la production du beurre, des oeufs, des volailles, du porc, des viandes, on y rĂ©colta divers lĂ©gumes et des patates pour les besoins de la population.
Et Palmarolle est un fameux pays de chasse.
Quoique la foret soit dâune belle venue, le dĂ©frichement des terres est facile. La riviĂšre Palmarolle est navigable et les usines de pulpe et de papier de lâIroquous Falls sont Ă lâautre bout du lac Abibiti; ce qui donne aux colons un marchĂ©e avantageaux pour la vente de leur bois. Il ne faudrait pas oublier, cependant, quâĂ Palmarolle comme ailleurs, prĂ©sentement, les prix payĂ©s pour le bois sont descendus Ă un niveau ridiculement bas.
Palmarolle est Ă moitiĂ© chemin entre la voie ferrĂ©e et les fameux dĂ©pĂŽts aurifĂšres de la mine Beatty. Quoique de basse teneur ces minĂ©rais dâor sont si abondnts quâil se bĂątira lĂ nous dit-on, une petite ville miniĂšre. Ce sera un marchĂ© avantageux pour ceux des colons qui vondront se spĂ©cialiser dans la production des denrĂ©es nĂ©cessaires aux mineurs du pays.
A Palmarolle on trouve une bonne chapelle, des Ă©coles, de bons chemins, des magasins, un presbytĂšre et un curĂ© actif et dĂ©vouĂ© aux intĂ©rĂȘts de sa paroisse.Â
Le 18 mai dernier, sur le convoi quittant Québec et Montréal pour Cochrane se trouvait un groupe de Canadiens qui allaient visiter les terres de notre empire du Nord, dont un M. CÎté venu de Sherbrooke,
A Amos, ce dernier rencontre le missionnaire qui lâinterroge.
âVous venez pour vous Ă©tablir au pays ?
âOui.
- Vous ĂȘtes mariĂ©, je suppose?
âUn peu! une femme et treize enfants.
âAvez-vous un peu dâargent. pour vous partir?
- Nous, jâai perdu ce que jâavais.
- Alors, comment esperez-vous arriver à faire vivre tout votre monde, dans un temps ou le bois ne se vend pas, en meme temps que vous défricherez une ferme, que vous la logerez, que vous achÚterez des animaux et des instruments aratoires?
âJe ne le sais pas, mais je veux essayer.Â
Et M. CĂŽtĂ© part pour aller visiter le pays. Le missionnaire nâavait guĂšre confiance.Â
A Palmarolle, M. CÎté achÚte une ferme de 300 acres dont une dizaine en défrichement, une partie en bridé sale, renversé, le reste en foret généralement pillée. Une bonnee grange était batie.
Son marchĂ© fait, Ă crĂ©dit, M. CĂŽtĂ© retourne, arrĂȘtant Ă QuĂ©bec, demander du secours pour le transport de sa famille et de ses effets de mĂ©nage. Quand il fut connu quâil avait 13 enfants et pas de capital argent, on lui refusa tout secours.
A Sherbrooke, M. CÎté dut se débattre pendant un mois pour trouver le montant nécessaire au transport de sa famille et de ses effets de ménage.
Carbonateville camp, Los Cerrillos mining district, New Mexico Photographer: Bennett and Brown Date: 1880 - 1882 Negative Number 014834
But I didn;t see them around.Â
Silver Standard, Volume I, Number 1 : September 19, 1885
Sophisticated Defense System Discovered at Biblical-Era Mining Camp
Archaeologists in Israel say they've discovered elements of a sophisticated gatehouse at a mining camp that dates back to the biblical era of King David and King Solomon in the 10th century B.C.
Recent excavations at the hilltop copper-smelting factory known as Slaves' Hill in the Timna Valley have revealed a fortified gatehouse with donkey stables. The archaeologists, led by Erez Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv University, think these features show that this Iron Age settlement had a highly organized defense system and depended on an impressive network of long-distance trade.
The vast copper deposits in the southern Levant have been exploited by humans for hundreds of years. This particular camp was first identified in the 1930s by the famous American biblical archaeologist Nelson Glueck. He called it Slaves' Hill, theorizing that the massive walls that surrounded the perimeter were meant to keep enslaved laborers from escaping into the desert. Read more.
On September 29 1931, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police murdered three miners in Estevan, Saskatchewan. The miners and their families were striking for union recognition.
In 1931, 600 miners in the Souris coal fields of southeast Saskatchewan faced wage cuts from Western Dominion Collieries. Western Dominion was widely considered to be one of the most brutal employers in the mining industry.
Cave-ins were common because the company refused to buy new lumber for rotting frames. Western Dominion refused to provide adequate ventilation to alleviate high levels of sickness among the workers. The miners worked ten-hour shifts.
Off the job, the minersâ lives were still controlled by the company. The miners and their families lived in company housing: uninsulated tar paper shacks infested with lice and bedbugs. The miners had to shop at company stores to buy all their necessities.
After the wage cuts in 1931, the miners began organizing a union and joined the Mine Workersâ Union of Canada, affiliated to the Workersâ Unity League. The WUL was formed by the Communist Party of Canada in 1929.
After a mass meetings of more than a thousand miners and their families in Taylorton and Estevan, 100 percent of the miners signed union cards in late August 1931.
When the union requested the company sit down and bargain a contract, the mine operators refused to recognize the union, saying they would not bargain with the MWUC because it was led by Communists. In neighbouring Alberta, mine operators had already negotiated with MWUC.
Strike After a vote, miners went on strike September 7. The operators brought in scabs on September 16 to reopen some of the larger pits. Mass picketing stopped the scabs. The mining communities supported the strike in their hundreds.
On September 29, the miners and their wives and children started a caravan tour through Saskatchewanâs coal country to drum up more public support. When they arrived in Estevan with their banners reading âWe will not work for starvation wagesâ and âDown with the company storeâ, Estevan police blockaded the peaceful procession and refused them passage through town.
Ordered to disperse, the miners refused. The police chief then assaulted one of the miners, leading to a shoving match. The police responded by ordering arrests but the miners and their families resisted, using picket signs and throwing stones to fend off the police attack.
The Murders The RCMP, which had been called upon by the municipal government, then opened fire on the crowd.
Three miners, Peter Markunas, Nick Nargan, and Julian Gryshko were killed. Eight other unarmed strikers were wounded by RCMP gunfire.
Firing wildly into the crowd, the RCMP wounded one of their own officers, and hit four bystanders.
After this so-called âriotâ, police raided the minersâ family homes and made numerous arrests. Several of the miners were sentenced to hard labour.
Keep on keepin on Despite the RCMP murders, the miners did not stop their strike.
A week after the police riot, the mine owners conceded the 8-hour day, better wages, rent reductions, and an end to the company store monopoly. In exchange, the miners made the difficult decision to drop their demand for union recognition. They did not win union recognition until the mid-1940s.
To mark the one-year anniversary of the RCMP murders, a local memorial was erected to the three fallen miners.
The municipal authorities, local police and RCMP were vocally opposed to the memorial and demanded the inscription on the tomb be changed. The miners refused.
Shortly after, the memorial was vandalized: âRCMPâ was chiseled off the stone memorial.
The Daily Worker, the newspaper of the Communists, ran a cartoon mocking the coal operatorsâ hurt feelings and displayed and RCMP officer shedding tears while pointing at the tombstone.
The miners did not win union recognition but improved their lives dramatically, and broke the companyâs control over the daily life of the minersâ families. Three miners sacrificed their lives for the cause.
- Doug Nesbitt, âOur History: Remember the Estevan Miners.â Rankandfile.ca. September 29, 2020.
âOphir Shaft and Power House - The Company Stuck, A New Vein On The 200-Foot Level on Coronation Day,â Cobalt Daily Nugget. June 29, 1911.  Page 01.