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Extract from the Springhill Travel Guides: Just off the Trans-Canada, 200km from Halifax and 30km from New Brunswick,
SPRINGHILL
is an Appalachian lookalike, its tangle of modern buildings set amidst a vast forest that rolls over the surrounding hills. A coal mine was first sunk here in 1872 and it was coal that dominated the local economy until the last mine closed in the 1970s, leaving the town's population - which now numbers about 4000 - pretty much high and dry. Of all the coalfields in Canada, Springhill's was the most disaster prone, with three major tragedies grabbing national headlines: 125 miners perished in an underground explosion in 1891, 39 died in a gas explosion...
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