The voids are part of Nanaimo’s legacy of coal mining. Nanaimo general manager of ... We put construction on pause,” he said. “We will map out a series of drill holes, and then we will ...

Poul Rosen, the city's acting manager of engineering, goes through a collection of old coal mine maps from the 1960s. Nanaimo has a rich history of coal mining. But the industry, which dominated ...

It was on this trip that Douglas was startled to find that the maps of ... The coal-mining operation eventually evolved into a separate organization known as the Nanaimo Coal Company.

In Nanaimo, B.C. — a city built on coal — a long-abandoned mine will soon become the heat source for a new university building. Salt water from the flooded shafts of the Wakesiah mine ...

Coal mining shafts abandoned more than a century ago could cause delays to a major revitalization project in downtown Nanaimo. The city announced Monday that the intersection at Bastion and ...

An old coal mine dating back more than 150 years has forced a change of plans to the modernization of part of downtown Nanaimo. As Kylie Stanton reports, the delay is bad news for local businesses ...

In 1853, Dunsmuir discovered two seams of coal near Nanaimo. He went on to work for the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company, which bought the HBC claims, then was hired to run the Harewood Coal ...