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Westville Miners' Memorial
Pictou County, Nova Scotia GenWeb
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Compiled by Richard MacNeil
April, 1999



Transcription : Front Side
ERECTED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF 
DRUMMOND COLLIERY 22ND OF OCT 1891
TO THE MEMORY OF
James Dunn, Gen'l Manager
Joseph Richardson, Underground do.
John Bowens
Philip Dunn
John Dunn
John Campbell
Abraham Guy
George Burney
John T. Elliot
John McElvie
Robert W. Dunbar
Samuel Hale
Thomas Glenwright
1891
Transcription: Left Side
Roderick McCharles
John Bennett
Duncan Halliday
Colin McDonald
Harvey Campbell
John Manning
John McElvie Jr.
D. McF. Stewart
George Stewart
Edward Jones
WHO PERISHED IN THE DRUMMOND 
COLLIERY EXPLOSION OF MAY 13 - 1873

OH WHAT A SUDDEN SHOCK THEY IN A MOMENT FELL
NO TIME ALLOWED TO BID THEIR FRIENDS FAREWELL
WEEP NOT FOR THEM, NOR SORROW TAKE,
BUT LOVE THEIR FAMILIES FOR THEIR SAKE
BE YE ALSO READY

Transcription: Reverse Side
Hugh McGillivray
Angus Smith
Henry Freeman
Hugh McDonald
James Dalling
Kenneth Cameron
Archibald Cameron
John Ellis
Matthew Lyall
John Fraser
Duncan McRae
Alex Purvis Jr.
William Elliott
John Sinclair
James Webb
Alexander Murray
John McDonald No. 1
John McDonald No. 2
Additional Transcription: Right Side
James McPherson Jr.
James Ramsay
John McRichey
Colin C. Chisholm
John McNeil
Edward Burns
Oliver McLeod
Timothy Howatt
Hugh Gillis
Nicholas O'Brien
John Emery
Edward Ruddick 
John Walton
William Rogers
Donald Shaw
Duncan McDonald
David McNeil
Daniel J. McDonald
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