Cobalt: Canada's Forgotten Silver Boom Town
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Author/contributor
- Baldwin, Douglas O. (Author)
Title
Cobalt: Canada's Forgotten Silver Boom Town
Abstract
Cobalt's rich history is full of the romance of prospecting, stories of immense wealth, deaths and mining accidents, struggles to obtain pure drinking water and fire protection, labour-management turmoil, legal conflicts between the town and the mining companies, the founding of the Ontario Provincial Police, and the struggles to provide religion, education, and leisure activities in a mining boom town. Its story is one of immense capital accumulation, labour strife, technological progress, new government policies and ventures, regional growth, and the struggle for law and order. The discovery of the fabulously rich silver mines led to the emergence of northeastern Ontario and helped Toronto to assert its financial dominance. --From Introduction
Place
Charlottetown
Publisher
Indigo Press
Date
2016
# of Pages
x, 362 pages: illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-9680354-7-4
Extra
OCLC: 923568514
Notes
Contents: The romance of discovery -- Cobalt fever -- Birth of a mining boom town, 1903-1908 -- Extracting the ore -- From service to commercial town, 1909-1914 -- Epidemics and conflagrations -- Life in a mining boom town -- Death, education, and politics -- Law and order in a boom town -- An uneasy coexistence -- Cobalt at war -- The life of a silver miner -- Labour unrest, 1906-1920 -- After the silver vanished.
Citation
Baldwin, D. O. (2016). Cobalt: Canada’s Forgotten Silver Boom Town. Indigo Press.
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