EXTRAS
Personal Experience Stories

This page will feature the stories of people who live, or have lived, on Bell Island, told in their own words. Many of these stories will be from personal interviews that I did in the 1980s and 90s with former miners and others, talking about their experiences working in the Wabana mines and for the mining company. Some will be from personal interviews with women talking about life as the wife of a miner, or other aspects of their life on Bell Island in the mining years. Many of these stories will have been previously unpublished. Some will be from publications that are now out-of-print. 
LIST OF STORIES
​The list is in alphabetical order by the last name of the author.
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To read the stories, select a button from the list below:
​Growing up in the area of Wabana bordered by East Track, Greenwood Avenue and Church Road in the 1960s
When Al O'Brien and friends walked over the sea ice to Harbour Grace in 1956