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WARNING **
Old Abandoned Underground Coal Mines can be
Very Dangerous,
Due to Collapse, and Mine Gases (Noxious and Flammable).
Extreme Care should be taken around them, due to Falls, Sudden Ground Collapse,
and Bad Air,
and in NO Circumstances should People enter into ANY Mine Openings, or
Associated Caves.
The Material Contained on my Sites, is NOT to Encourage Personal Investigation
of these Mines,
But only as a Historical Record of these Long Abandoned Mines.
Please View these Mines from a Far, Safe and Legal Distance.
Always Observe Private Property Rights, and Obey ALL Warning Signs.
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Nicholson Mine
N1/2 LSD 9 & E 1/2
LSD 15
Section
2,
Township 2,
Range 8, W2
Owned by Malcolm Nicholson.
view his
Mineral rights patent.
Malcolm had his homestead on the NE quarter
of this land
2-2-8 W2.
Malcolm Nicholson
b- 1855, in Kincardine ON
d- July 19, 1945, in St. Joseph's Hospital, Estevan, age 90
buried in
Estevan City Cemetery.
Orangeman's Lodge in charge of his funeral
Resident of Estevan for more than 40 years.
He went to Commonwealth Wisconsin in 1881, from Kincardine ON
Came to Estevan in 1902, and started this valley coal mine.
Operated threshing outfits for many years,
well known in the Gainsborough district at threshing time.
He suffered a stroke in Oct. 1944
He married Alvina Brown in Wisconsin
b-
d- 1897 Malcolm and Alvina had 3 sons:
Harry William Nicholson
(see below) Murdock Nicholson,
b- Oct 1890 in USA
d- aft 1945
living in Minneapolis MN, USA in 1945 Charles
"Charlie" Nicholson,
b- Oct 1892 in ND, USA
d- aft 1945
living in USA in 1945
This mine was sold to his son Harry
William Nicholson,
who was Mayor of Estevan for a total of 28 years.
(26
consecutive)
Harry William Nicholson
b- Jan 16, 1888, in Mclean County, ND
d- 1982,
buried in Souris
Valley Memorial Cemetery
Came to Estevan in 1907 He married Laura
Bertha McDonald in 1916
b- 1890
d- Mar 31, 1966
daughter of Peter McDonald This Mine was operating in 1917.
A Mr. Herb Culbert hauled the first load of coal from this mine,
and
delivered it to the residents of Estevan.
Ernest George Foord Sr. b- July 1887, Kent, England,
from 1922-25, he hauled coal from this mine
with his 12 teams of horses and mules, to the railroad,
the old power plant, and local delivery.
His wife Mary Foord, nee Bourke,
ran the boarding house at this mine. Operated by Pete Gemby from
Bienfait.
It was located in the ravine
directly south
of the south east corner
of the present Woodlawn Golf
Course.
Pete Gemby was blacklisted
from the big Coal Companies
after the 1931 strike.
May Day is a paid holiday in the Union
contracts,
and is locally referred to as Gemby Day, in his honour. |
