Westray Miners Memorial Park

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 7 -27

Photographs of
Westray Miners Memorial Park


The Westray Coal Mine exploded on 9 May 1992

New Glasgow Pictou County Nova Scotia

Located at the eastern end of Park Street in New Glasgow

GPS location: 45°34’02″N 62°37’54″W

15th anniversary, 9 May 2007
Nova Scotia: Pictou County News, 10 May 2007
Pictou County News, 10 May 2007

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial Park

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial Park

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial

Westray Miners Memorial

Westray Miners Memorial

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, seven interpretative panels
Westray Miners Memorial seven interpretative panels


Interpretative Panel Number One (north) Predictable Path to Disaster

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 1

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 1

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 1


Interpretative Panel Number Two 26 Miners Trapped

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 2


Interpretative Panel Number Three Disaster Area Map

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 3

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 3

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 3


Interpretative Panel Number Four Memorial Park

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 4

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 4

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 4


Interpretative Panel Number Five The Aftermath and Inquiry

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 5

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 5

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 5


Interpretative Panel Number Six Pictou County Industrial Memorial Sites

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 6

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 6


Go To: Photographs of the Miners Monument, Acadia Park, Westville

https://ns1763.ca/pictouco/westvminem.html


Go To: Photographs of Sobeys Industrial Monument, Foord Street, Stellarton

https://ns1763.ca/pictouco/sobeyindmon.html


Go To: Photographs of the Workers Monument, Steeltown Centennial Park, Trenton

https://ns1763.ca/pictouco/trentwrkm.html

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 6


Interpretative Panel Number Seven (south) Zone of Exclusion

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 7

New Glasgow: Westray Miners Memorial, interpretative panel 7


The above photographs were taken on 5 May 2003.


Westray Ten Years Later
by Peter Boyle
Numerous photographs at the Westray memorial, 9 May 2002
http://ca.geocities.com/local343/westray_photo_page.html


Westray Mine Public Inquiry Report
Summary only
N.S. Department of Labour and Workforce Development
http://www.gov.ns.ca/lwd/pubs/westray/summary.asp


Westray Mine
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westray_Mine


Review: Westray
VHS, 80 minutes, National Film Board of Canada, 2001
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol8/no14/westray.html

Index to the Westray Mine Public Inquiry Transcript
at the Angus L. Macdonald Library, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish
http://alts.net/ns1625/wrpindex.html