Moose River Gold Mines
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Middle Musquodoboit, NS (Nearby: Musquodoboit, Meaghers Grant, Upper Musquodoboit, Stewiacke, Upper Stewiacke)

12336 HWY 224
Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia
B0N 1X0


Nova Scotia Tourism Region : Eastern Shore

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  • 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


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