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Moose River Disaster

Item number (ISN):

73922

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

73922

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

Accession:

1983-0065

Media:

Sound

Release date:

1936-04-12

Production company:

Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission

Production credit:

reporter, J. Frank Willis

Description:

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This recording consists of reports by J. Frank Willis about the entombment of three men and rescue of two of them from an old gold mine at Moose River, Nova Scotia. There are interviews with members of the rescue crew and doctors, descriptions by Willis of the scene at the mine, comments by Willis on exaggerated reporting by newspaper and radio reporters, a description of the rescue and a statement by the Honourable Michael Dwyer, the Provincial Minister of Mines. The recording is a compilation of reports made over a number of days. The Moose River mine disaster occurred about 9 p.m., April 12 (Easter Sunday evening), when three men - Dr. D.E. Robertson, Chief Surgeon of the Hospital for Sick Children, Herman R. Magill a young lawyer and broker, and Alfred Scadding, employed by them as timekeeper at the mine, became trapped in the old gold mine owned by two of the men. Dr. Robertson and Alfred Scadding were rescued from the mine on Thursday April 23, 1936, after being entombed 242 hours. Mr. Magill died of pneumonia. <50mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The subject description is taken from CBC Program Archives cataloguing.~2. The date of this recording is the date the men became trapped in the mine. The rescue occurred on April 23, 1936.~3. See also 1982-0009/002.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

160628

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1983-0065/004
1983-0065/005

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

DISC

Stock:

TRANS

Technical description:

ALUM

Duration:

50:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

179733

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C09966

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

C00156
1983-0065/004
1983-0065/005
1971-0016/073
1971-0016/074
1971-0016/075
1971-0016/076

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1094551

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

73922-1983-0065-004.WAV
73922-1983-0065-005.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

67:00

Made from:

1983-0065/004
1983-0065/005

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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