12336 HWY 224 |
Nova Scotia Tourism Region : Eastern Shore
Description From Owner:
- Some lumbermen discovered gold in 1866 but surveying and prospecting didn't take place for eight years, until Damas Lonquoy took up three grants of land around Long Lake in 1874.
- Mining continued until the early 1900s. In 1936, three Toronto men, Dr. D. Edwin Robertson, Alfred Scadding and Herman Magill, went into the mine to explore and were trapped by a cave-in.
- Regular news bulletins were relayed to the outside world by a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation mobile radio crew. The impact of the reports by J. Frank Willis established both ‘on the-spot' radio reporting and the reputation of the fledgling CBC.
- A cairn was later erected to honour the crew of draegermen from the Stellarton Mines who had risked their lives to reach the trapped men. A museum contains artifacts from that occasion.
- There is also a Moose River in Annapolis, Cumberland and Queens Counties.
- With permission from 'Nova Scotia Place Names' David E. Scott 2015
Address of this page: http://ns.ruralroutes.com/MooseRiverGoldMines