The Beat Goes On: Ladysmith's History and Music The Beat Goes On: Ladysmith’s History & Music Ladysmith & District Historical Society
Joseph Mairs, a young coal miner, died in Oakalla prison in January 1914 while serving a sentence for participation in disturbances during the bitter Vancouver Island coal strike […]
After the miners’ riots of August 13, 1913, the B.C Attorney General William Bowser ordered the militia into a number of Vancouver Island mining communities to keep order. […]
Ladysmith B.C., was planned by the industrialist James Dunsmuir to house the miners who worked his coal mines at Extension, 16 kilometers to the north. Located on the […]
