The company owned the stores and houses in the mining town and determined the wages and working conditions. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada) Underground, Cape Breton coal miners like ...

five sites per year assessed, based on their ranking and site logistics. Old steel plant But one of the mines — once a coal mine and early steel plant about 100 years ago is Ocean Street, Sydney ...

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and ...