Employers controlled almost every aspect of a Canadian coal miner's life in the early 1900s. The company owned the stores and houses in the mining town and determined the wages and working conditions.

but the miners' filthy clothes had to be washed as well - a continuous back breaking chore for the women of the house. Walking through the pithead baths today, it is difficult to imagine the huge ...

but the miners' filthy clothes had to be washed as well - a continuous back breaking chore for the women of the house. Walking through the pithead baths today, it is difficult to imagine the huge ...

Plans to build a new house which has triggered a warning from the Coal Authority, an expansion of the council headquarters in Bath ... and the environment in mining areas.” ...