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"COALFIELDS" Exact Location
It is located 8 miles SE of Bienfait SK In the SE corner of Saskatchewan Canada The First Post Office
in the area
Origin of the Name Taylorton?
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a Church, School, Tipple, Garage, Mine Office, Outdoor Skating Rink, Butcher Shop, Post Office, Store, and Boarding House. There was about 30 houses on the Prairie, top of the hill, and about 35 in the Valley. When it was in it's first location in the valley, called "Coalfields" The Hamlet was located where the Souris Valley Mine was, Which was the Hugh Hassard Mine. (first mine in the area) The Hamlet was moved again to a location near old highway 39. Map on the Estevan web site shows this location. Most of the houses it seems were painted Green and White. The residents worked for The Western Dominion Mines Ltd. Total population it seems never exceeded about 300 persons. There was, and still is, a Cemetery located on the edge of the Hill It has been fully restored and in 1999 was in very good condition. A huge wrought Iron gateway has been erected at the entrance. Not much is left of the entire Hamlet, other than some stone remains of the store, and the Cemetery. The whole area of the Hamlet, is now a Restricted area, with NO TRESPASSING signs posted by the present Mine Company Owners. These signs should be respected for your safety, as under this whole area, is old underground mining operations, and cave-ins are quite prevalent, and could cause Serious Injury and/or Death!. Please view the area through Binoculars, or Telephoto lens only! The following are links to other sites
COAL MINER'S STRIKE
SEPT 29,1931
OLD SASKATCHEWAN MAPS http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmaps/ NOT MY SITE!
MORE TAYLORTON HISTORY http://www.cap.estevan.sk.ca/community/history/Taylorton/index.html NOT MY SITE! An additon to the Name List** from this site From Bev Lundahl comes this Family Historical info- Her great-grandmother Ida C. Lundahl worked at the boarding house at Taylorton around 1903 or 1904. Her family donated pictures to the Bienfait Mining Museum from the early days. She noticed on the list** of families in Taylorton that it doesn't include Lundahl. Her grandfather also worked there in those years as a chore boy and later in the mines, and her great-grandfather, Lenus Lundahl worked on the railway between Taylorton and Bienfait. A Family Name that should be on the List** **NOTE- THIS IS NOT MY SITE THIS LIST IS ON Please contact the web editor of that site for additions or corrections! |
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