Men, money, machines : studies comparing colliery operations and factors of production in British Columbia’s coal industry to 1891

Coal mining in nineteenth century British Columbia was confined almost exclusively to the tidewater coal measures of Vancouver Island where it was expanded rapidly from 1871 to 1891. This dissertation's purposes are to describe the coal industry's rise, account for its fast growth in the s...

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Main Author: Gallacher, Daniel Thomas
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/22170