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 Lignite Coal Mines
 Saskatchewan
Canada
 
Northeast Mine

 

 ** 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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Northeast Mine

LSD 10, Section 19, Township 2, Range 6, W2

1 mi East of Bienfait

operating between 1946-1949 time period.
 exact time unknown before or after those dates.
Operated by Wheeler and Enmark

Don't know first names here to research them
Wilbur C. (Wilbert) (Shorty) Enmark
  b- Oct 19, 1885 in Chicago, IL, USA
  d- Feb 8, 1963, age 76
stepson to Robert Brown and Elizabeth Gillies
1911 living on Tsp 2, Rge 7 with the Gillies
A Shorty Enmark was weighman for the Bienfait-Hassard mine ca1931
enlisted in WWI, June 5, 1917 in Moose Jaw SK
living in Bienfait SK, next of kin,
mother- Elizabeth Gilles, Bienfait SK
occupation- Miner, single, Reg #2188570

or Howard Victor Enmark?
   b- 1893
   d-Apr 26, 1962
both buried in Bienfait Cemetery

or Wilbur C. (Shorty) (Bill) Enmark
  b- Apr 15, 1928
  d- Nov 4, 2006
served with SSR in WWII at Dieppe, Reg #L12142
was it him?  doubt it, as he was only born in 1928

Then which Wheeler?
Clarence Wheeler moved in 1928 to an Enmark farm near Bienfait

 
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