For twenty-four years our organization has never had a fund raiser - so now we would like to ask your help in raising the funds to buy a microfilm reader/printer and the available microfilm reels of newspapers for Cumberland County. We are a registered charitable organization and will issue tax receipts for your donation. Please HELP US REACH OUR GOAL. Please contact our office if you need further details. Donations may be made by cheque, e-transfer to "archives@ccgsns.com" or through Paypal by hitting the Donate Button, above - please add a note to say it is for the microfilm reader/printer. Or drop by the office Thursday - Saturday from 10 AM - 4 PM
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Meetings are always open to the public, so please come join your local family Genealogical Society, which has been serving Cumberland County for the past 24 years. Research your heritage and find new relatives. Learn about what times your parents, grandparents and other ancestors, lived through, where, when, how, education, religion, occupations, etc.
Email: "archives@ccgsns.com" or Call: 902-661-7278
A Coal Miner’s Son
“Coal Miner’s Son””
A publication by Harold “Gary” Embree.
Price: $5.00 + (shipping and handling is extra)
5½” X 8½”, 20 pages.
This is a recollection of a coal miner’s son on the events of October 23, 1958 – the day the earth heaved and changed the lives of so many.
Trace the days events leading up to and including the aftermath of
one of Springhill’s disasters as told by Harold “Gary “Embree
Booklet includes his memories, pictures, historical facts and facts included in a school project of a then 11-year-old grade 5 student on the disaster that took the life of her great-grandfather and so many others.