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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last working coal mine on Vancouver Island has halted production ... He added that places like Nanaimo, Ladysmith and Cumberland owe their existence to coal. As well, some of the island's ...