Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia
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Reserve Mines is a community in Nova Scotia
's Cape Breton Regional Municipality
.
It is located immediately west of Glace Bay
and 10 kilometres northeast of Sydney
. The J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport is located in the western part of the community. The Antigonish Movement aided Reserve Mines in the mid 1930's when Father Jimmy Tompkins and Coady Marsh helped the small town with education, housing and the first Credit Union. Reserve Mines is known for coal mining from 1860 to mid-1950 and the mines were called Dominion 5 and Dominion 10 Colliery and later they were used for an airshaft and escape passage from #26 Colliery in Glace Bay . It is also known as the home of harness racing grand circuit winner Lambert Todd
with a lifetime mark of 2.02.1 in the early 1920s.
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
's Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Regional Municipality often shortened to simply CBRM, is a regional municipality in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton County.According to the 2006 Census of Canada, the population within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is 102,250...
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Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
Glace Bay is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton....
and 10 kilometres northeast of Sydney
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney is a Canadian urban community in the province of Nova Scotia. It is situated on the east coast of Cape Breton Island and is administratively part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality....
. The J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport is located in the western part of the community. The Antigonish Movement aided Reserve Mines in the mid 1930's when Father Jimmy Tompkins and Coady Marsh helped the small town with education, housing and the first Credit Union. Reserve Mines is known for coal mining from 1860 to mid-1950 and the mines were called Dominion 5 and Dominion 10 Colliery and later they were used for an airshaft and escape passage from #26 Colliery in Glace Bay . It is also known as the home of harness racing grand circuit winner Lambert Todd
Lambert Todd
Lambert Todd was a standardbred race horse born in 1916 in Ontario, the son of Jim Todd and Gracie Lambert.Lambert Todd performed in the grand circuit before going to Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia in 1929 where he performed against other community horses. Lambert Todd is believed to be the first...
with a lifetime mark of 2.02.1 in the early 1920s.