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Pit Talk: The Legacy of Cape Breton’s Coal Miners
This book is an anthology of stories collected by journalists and miners to record and celebrate the legacy of miners from the Cape Breton area who built community’s and families from the 1700s through the late 1900s.
“Talking Pit” is talking about mining but “Pit Talk” is conversation during work hours. What was said in the pit was to stay in the pit. While many books have been published by and about the disasters that often accompanied mining, few, if any, compiled the miners’ stories as they told them. This anthology does collect first-hand accounts of folks’ memories that date back to the early 1910s and present-day experience of unemployment now that all of Cape Breton’s mines are closed.
“Talking Pit” is talking about mining but “Pit Talk” is conversation during work hours. What was said in the pit was to stay in the pit. While many books have been published by and about the disasters that often accompanied mining, few, if any, compiled the miners’ stories as they told them. This anthology does collect first-hand accounts of folks’ memories that date back to the early 1910s and present-day experience of unemployment now that all of Cape Breton’s mines are closed.
164 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2010
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