On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon members of the
Friends of the Morden Mine society gathered at Morden Colliery Historic
Provincial Park for the official unveiling of a monument dedicated to the
memory of those who worked in the old coal mines of Vancouver Island.
Approximately one-thousand miners lost their
lives in these mines and countless others succumbed to workplace injuries and
mining-related diseases. Morden is the
appropriate location for such a memorial because it contains the last remaining
sizable structures of the old Vancouver Island coal mining industry and because
it is a provincial historic park, the only such park dedicated to our mining
heritage.
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