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Coal Dust in My Blood

The Autobiography of a Coal Miner

Bill Johnstone (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

195 Seiten

2001
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-88982-128-6 (ISBN)

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This is the autobiography of an English coal miner who emigrated to Canada. It tells of his experiences of immigration, of farming on the Canadian praries, of the depression years and of life in the mines.

Bill Johnstone spent most of his working years as a coal miner, first in England, then in Alberta, and finally on Vancouver Island. Born in 1908 in Northumberland, England, he began working in the 'pits' as a hand miner at the age of thirteen. Mr. Johnstone immigrated to the Canadian Prairies, where he alternated between working as a farmhand and a miner in Alberta coal mines. He eventually found that his miner's certificate was a means to survive the Depression. After their marriage in 1936, Bill and Dorothy Johnstone moved to Vancouver Island. Years of hard work and study followed. Bill Johnstone mastered nearly every phase of coal mining from working on the picking tables to shooting explosive charges. He also studied mining engineering and mine rescue and was injured in a cave-in. Not long before his retirement, after fifty-two years in the mining industry, Bill Johnstone became District Superintendent of the Canadian Collieries mines near Cumberland.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.1.2001
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	0-88982-128-3 / 0889821283
ISBN-13	978-0-88982-128-6 / 9780889821286
Zustand	Neuware