Victor Vincent "Dick" Ward (June 24, 1923 – April 17, 2011) was a Canadian miner who was trapped in the mines during the 1956 Explosion.
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In 1958, Griffin, who was a segregationalist and accused of being racist, took advantage of the intense media coverage surrounding the Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada to promote tourism to his state by offering a group of survivors free vacations to Jekyll Island.
Maurice A Ruddick (1912–1988) was an Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, an underground earthquake, or "bump" as the miners call it, in the Springhill mine in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
Last Man Out (2002) tells the story of the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia and the absurdist American white supremacist coda to the spectacular rescue of a handful of Canadian men.
The title poem uses just four lines to draw a parallel between the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia and the use by the author's lover of birth control pills, in that both leave life, with all of its potential, buried forever.
U2 performed Luke Kelly's "Springhill Mining Disaster" which tells the story of a mining disaster in Nova Scotia.
Maurice Ruddick (1912–1988), Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster