LIST OF NAMES
Here is a list of names I have compiled from the people I interviewed, or who have made comments on the website and from local history. These are people who either worked at the mine or in the businesses associated with the mine. Make sure you check out the interview page, It has many stories about the people who worked there. Most of these people below are mentioned in these interviews. If you know of any other people click here on Comments and write me a note. The initials in brackets are of the person who gave me the name or from other sources.
Last updated April 11, 2024
________, Cyril; St Peter’s
_________, Leo - Bus driver Kings bus line (PMD).
Adamson, ____________ - Point Michaud – Miner (WH)
Ames, Gerry – Boss Machine Shop (BM)
Anderson, __________, (_____Boss, (Lived in company house behind John G’s- moved to Eliot Lake) DMQ
Aucoin, Gerard - School teacher (GA)
Babcock, Stirling 1930's Truck Driver (A History of Fourchu)
Baltussen, William -Holland/the Netherlands (HB)
Bardswick, Tony, Goldenville, NS - Manager
Bagnell, Spenser; Gabarus
Beaton, Dan; Mabou - Foreman
Bedard – died at mine in 1950’s (BM)
Benoit, Reg, Nfld (DMQ)
Biron, Claude - Fourchu - 1930's trucking the ore to /from Fourchu (A History of Fourchu)
Boudreau, Austin; River Bourgeois - Miner (DL)
Boudreau, Buddy; River Bourgeois, Carpenter (DL)
Boudreau, Frankie, Morrison’s Store -St Peter’s
Boudreau, George - Chef
Bourque, Patrick - River Bourgeois student (GD)
Boyd, Gerard -River Bourgeois student 1953 underground (GD)
Boyd, Peter River Bourgeois student underground (GD)
Bunclark, Henry - Manager
Burke, George, Electrician DL
Burke, Leonard, River Bourgeois, Assay office GD)
Burke, Patrick, River Bourgeois worked on the power lines (NSP) (MMcP) (GD)
Burke, Peter, River Bourgeois (MMcP)
Burns Howard – Mill – Gabarus - died at Stirling Mine 1950’s (EM)
Burns, Dan Alex: Gabarus -Mill
Burns, Danny; Fourchu (WH) (A History of Fourchu)
Burns, Lawrence; Fourchu (GML) (A History of Fourchu)
Burns, Robert - Fourchu (A History of Fourchu p 27)
Burns, Roddie – Fourchu
Bushnik, __________; Sydney Mines (BM)
Butts, ___________
Cain, George; Framboise (WH)
Callaway – Head Boss – Mill (WH)
Cameron, Bernie – Miner
Cameron, John – Grand River -Labour Foreman Construction and Crusher (WH)
Campbell, Basil (NMP)
Campbell, Danny; Johnstown – the mill, laborer and underground (WH)
Carpenter, Joe; Sampsonville (ISC)
Carter, Joe; Sampsonville (ISC)
Chan, Tom – Restauranteur (BM)
Chiasson, Ernie (CML/MM)
Chisholm, Angus - President (BM)
Chisholm, Angus - (great fiddler) later moved to Boston ( FW)
Chisholm, (brother of Angus) Stephens Buildings Supplies
Chisholm, John- Dept of Mines (CML/MM
Claussen, Christian - Miner (EMG)
Cotie, Alfred; St Peter’s – Taking samples up to the mill
Deviendt, _____, Holland (or Belgium), (WM)
DeYoung, Bud
Digout, George -River Bourgeois (JMacL)
Digout, Fred; River Bourgeois – Carpenter (DL)
Dunphy, John Reserve Mines (CC)
Dunphy, Ray; Reserve Mines - Assay office (MMM) (CC)
Fanning, Laurie - Shift Boss, Mill (WH)
Farrell, Kenny
Farrow, Danny, Antigonish Electrician then went with NS Power (WH)
Ferguson, Kenny Angus, St Esprit
Ferguson, Willie “the fiddler”; Grand River - Miner (WH)
Finlayson, Dept of Mines (CML/MM)
Fleming, _________
Fontaine, George; St Peter’s – Mechanic – Machine Shop
Fornier, Warehouse Manager
Fougere, Isaac; Samsonville – Carpenter (DL)
Fougere, Jimmy Building Contractor Samsonville (DL)
Fougere, Roderick; Samsonville – Carpenter (DL)
Fougere, Sam; River Bourgeois – Carpenter (DL)
Fraser, Willie, Inverness ( known as a great step dancer) - (FW)
Gaudet, _________; - Boss main office
Gillis, Alex - Mabou - Miner (DAC)
Gillis, Bernard; Grand Mira North – Hoister (BM)
Gillis, Harry, Orangedale (DMQ)
Gillis, Joseph; Upper South West Mabou - Miner? (MacL)
Goyetche, Isle Madame (DL)
Graham, Alex – Mill Shift Boss (WH)
Hardy, Charlie; Gabarus – surface Foreman (WH)
Hastings, Calvin BM) (WH)
Hawley, Lee; Brook Village – Shaft (WH)
Holmes, Wendell – Mill (IML)
Hooper, Charlie – Store owner
Hunter, Doug- Private contractor – Geologist
Jackson, Perry; St Peter’s – Truck Driver Malcolm S MacDonald Contracting (DL)
Joe MacDonald, Texico St Peters
Johnson, Greg, Engineering Office- Johnstown (DMcL)
Johnson, Marjorie “Diddy” Clerk Spinner’s store/post office (DS)
Johnson, Norman- Machine Operator, Sydney MMacL)
Keigan, Gordon; Sydney- Trucker Malcolm S MacDonald
Kelly, Bern – Accountant (BM/DMcL)
Kyte, Anne, School teacher (DMcL)
LaBelle, Armand; Valdor, Quebec – Driller (GS)
Landry, __________; L’Ardoise (DL)
Landry, Leo; Truck driver & Mechanic Rockdale (DL/VM)
Landry, Doug; Samsonville – Electrician
Landry, Ernest; Samsonville – Carpenter (DL)
Landry, Gertie; Samsonville – Cook, Child Minder
Landry, Harry: Samsonville – Carpenter (DL)
Landry, Mabbie;
Landry, Willie A; Samsonville– Cook
Langley, Brent (Edward)
Langley, Cyril (Edward)- May have worked at the mine as a young man
Langley, Parker (Harold)-Seal Harbour/Fourchu, Assay Office summer student.
Langley, Edward - (Seal Harbour) Barber
Langley, Harold- Seal Harbour, Underground.
LeBrun, Arthur – Time Keeper
Lefort(e), Bennie, Miner
Lefort(e),_______ Cheticamp- Electrician
Leonard, __________; Sydney- Truck driver- Malcolm S. MacDonald
LePrairie, Leon
MacAskill, Dan; Stirling Later years Fergusons Lake- Miner (GS)
MacAskill, Johnny (Jack) Framboise (JS?)
MacAskill, Neilly Hector: Loch Lomond (PmacL/MacD) (A MacD)
MacAulay, Buddy; Grand River (PMacL/MAcD) MMacL) (CMacL/MacM)
MacAulay, Johnny; Grand River – Underground (WH)
MacCormick, Big Ridge (EMC)
MacDermid, Norman; Stirling - Timbering (WH)
MacDonald, Alvin -Fourchu 1930s (A History of Fourchu)
MacDonald (Strachan), Anne; Loch Lomond; cookhouse all tasks, also cleaned homes and babysat for mine managers and mine bosses in between shifts and on days off. (AMD).
MacDonald Malcolm S.; Sydney- Truck Contractor ore to St Peter’s
MacDonald, Allister, Gabarus Lake
MacDonald, Angus – went Till Cove after Stirling close, later settled in Big Pond
MacDonald, Angus Bernard electrician Port Hood/Mabou
MacDougal, Calder; __________ (HS)
MacDonald, Angus (Johnnie Allan): Enon (HMacD)
MacDonald, Angus A (Hamish); Lake Uist/(Loch Lomond - 1936 (HMacD)
MacDonald, Angus, truck driver Mindemar
MacDonald, Annabel: Stirling – cook
MacDonald, Bernie (Buddy); Gabarus
MacDonald, Charlie (Fox) Grocer Morrison’s store
MacDonald, D.R. (is he the Donald below?)
MacDonald, Dan
MacDonald, Donald
MacDonald, Ian (Norman), Loch Lomond - 1930's (HMacD)
MacDonald, Eddie, Fourchu underground - "pulling shutes, breaking rock, pulling muck down the stope". -(A History of Fourchu p 27/28)
MacDonald, Hughie, Bus driver King’s bus line Stirling Route & Miner
MacDonald, James – Gatekeeper
MacDonald, Johnny “The Piper”, Miner – Soldier’s Cove
MacDonald, JJ - Antigonish County. Teacher (later became a Priest)
MacDonald, Kay, St Peter’s - Grocer Morrison’s store
MacDonald, Kenny –Loch Lomond, Machine Shop –
MacDonald, Lloyd: Fourchu, 1930s/1950s (A History of Fourchu p 27)
MacDonald, Mae Post office operator after Spinner's gave it up
MacDonald, Malcolm –Fourchu Mill Helper, filter operator, floatation helper (A History of Fourchu p 27/28)
MacDonald, Marie, Johnstown, School teacher
MacDonald, Marion (school teacher- wife of Angus MacDonald)( FW)
MacDonald, Mary (cook), Stirling
MacDonald, May (Brown), Main office (DMcL)
MacDonald, Neil - Bus driver King’s bus, Gabarus Lake (PMacD)
MacDonald, Roddie
MacDonald, Robert - Fourchu (A History of Fourchu)
MacDonald, Sadie - Clerk Danny Shaw’s store – Loch Lomond
MacDonald, Theresa, School teacher
MacDonald, Walter – Fourchu Time Keeper
MacDonald, Wesley. Gabarus
MacDonnell, _______; Port Hood (DL) (AMacD)
MacDonnell, Alex
MacDonnell, Archie
MacDougall, __________; Sydney Mines – Crusher (WH)
MacDougall, Donald Archie (MMacD-B)
MacDougall, Burt; Dundee – Danny Shaw’s store (DL)
MacDougall, Charlie – Timbering (BM/WH)
MacDougall, Neil; Gabarus - Crusher house (?) ( LM)
MacEachern, John Joe; Grand Mira South -Miner
MacEwen, Kenny; St Peter’s – Accountant, main office (DMcL)
MacGillivary Elmer, Miner; Fourchu – also worked at Hooper’s store (DMG)
MacGillivary, George, Boiler Operator- Fourchu (EMG) May have worked in the 1930s as well.
MacGillvary, Jack – Mainland?
MacIntosh (Troke), Mary Ann - Assay office -cook helper
MacIntosh, Malcolm Dan – Carpenter – Framboise (MT)
MacIntyre, Dan Rory; Port Hastings (WH) (LMacI book))
MacIntyre, Neil Fourchu (A History of Fourchu p 27)
MacIntyre, John Dan; (LMacI book )
MacIsaac, Danny (MG)
MacIssac, Dan
MacKay, Percy - Fourchu (A Histoooory of Fourchu P 27)
MacKay, Norman - Fourchu (A History of Fourchu P 27)
MacKenzie, Blaze (maybe sinking the shaft)
MacKenzie, Collie - Mechanic in machine shop (WH)
MacKenzie, Joe
MacKenzie, William – Truck Driver -Malcolm S MacDonald
MacKinnon, Dan Hughie, Iona/Little Narrows – Miner (EM)
MacKinnon, Donald
MacKinnon, Donald Archie – Sinking shaft
MacKinnon, Hector
MacKinnon, Murdock
MacLean, “big” Jim
MacLean, Michael - Big Pond (FW)
MacLean, Angus, Gabarus – Private Contractor service truck (WH)
MacLean, Joe; Loch Lomond – Bulldozer
MacLellan, Don; Grand Mira North (MG)
MacLellan, Hugh; Little Narrows (MG)
MacLellan, Hugh; Grand Mira North (MG)
MacLellan, John; Grand Mira North (MG)
MacLellan, Martin; underground Grand Mira North (MG (JMJ)
MacLennan, Alex;
MacLeod (McLean), Dolena; North Framboise – Main office (BM)
MacLeod (MacMillan), Chrissie - Assay office; Stirling/Stellarton (CMM)
MacLeod, Alex Angus Fourchu (A History of Fourchu)
MacLeod, Angus - Fourchu 1930s trucking oil from storage tanks Fourchu to Stirling (A History of Fourchu Page 27)
MacLeod, Angus – Cage or Hoist Operator – Framboise Intervale (PML)
MacLeod, Angus Alex; Framboise – Miner (DM)
MacLeod, Archie
MacLeod, Billy; Framboise – (AML)
MacLeod, Charlie; Framboise (PMD)
MacLeod, Dan - 1930s Fourchu Trucking the ore (A History of Fourchu) also 1950's at the mine
MacLeod, Dan Alex; Framboise (MacDonald Rd)- service truck and bunkhouse maintenance (WH)
MacLeod, Dan Alex; Stirling (1935)- Miner (CBMag)
MacLeod, Dan Ewen – 1935
MacLeod, Dan Neil; Fourchu (FR)
MacLeod, Dick; -Labourer and Miner (AMD)
MacLeod, DK, North Framboise (AML)
MacLeod, Dolena (McLean); North Framboise- Secretary, main office (BM)
MacLeod, Dolena (Tremblet); North Framboise – Cooks help/assay office. (DMcL)
MacLeod, Duncan – Assay office, Also worked at Strachan’s Garage and Danny Shaw‘s Store – Stirling (DML)
MacLeod, George; Framboise – Mill (DMcL/AML)
MacLeod, Gregor Dept of Mines (CML)
MacLeod, Ian – Grand River- underground (WH)
MacLeod, James - Framboise
MacLeod, Jim -Mine Foreman/Captain
MacLeod, Jimmy- 1930s Trucking the ore -Fourchu (A History of Fourchu)
MacLeod, Joe; (EM) May have also worked in 1930s (A History of Fourchu)
MacLeod, John - Fourchu 1930's - helper trucks hauling ore (A History of Fourchu p 27)
MacLeod, John D. MacLeod- born Sept 1893. He died in Stirling Mine accident March 9, 1926. He is buried at MacKinnon Cemetery, Framboise (Norma Coon, Strachan Family)
MacLeod, John G.; Stirling – construction crew (DMcL)
MacLeod, Johnny; Miner - killed in 1930's (DAMacL) Editors note - This may be the same man noted above.
MacLeod, John James – Labourer (BM)
MacLeod, Johnny Willie - Fourchu
MacLeod, Kenny: Loch Lomond – Miner – Died at Stirling Mine Jan 6, 1936. (CMM)
MacLeod, Kenny Dan 1930’s – Framboise (JT)
MacLeod, Kenny Y – 1930’s – Framboise (JT)
MacLeod, Malcolm; Framboise Intervale– Lamp Man (WH)
MacLeod, Max, Boss Assay office
MacLeod, Murdock Dan – 1930’s and 1950’s– Janitor, back up gatekeeper -Stirling
MacLeod, Norman Alex, North Framboise Machine shop
MacLeod, Norman D.," Framboise
MacLeod, Peter “John H”, Framboise – Private Contractor trucking
MacLeod, Phillip -Fourchu
MacLeod, Ramsey; Framboise (PMacL/MacD)
MacLeod, Roddie - Labour Foreman and Millwright (WH) (AMacL)
MacLeod, Roddie (1935)
MacLeod, Roddie K, ____Boss, Framboise (lived in company house behind John G’s) (DMQ) (JT)
MacLeod, Walter - Framboise - Cook house (WH)
MacLeod, Watson, Dept of Mines (CMacL/MacM)
MacLeod, Willard 1930's Truck driver (A History of Fourchu)
MacMaster, Johnny – Port Hood (MMacL)
MacMillan, John A – Dept of mines
MacMillan, Murdock - JW Stephens contractor
MacNeil, Clarence- Truck Driver - Malcolm S. MacDonald
MacNeil, Jim; Soldier’s Cove - Assay office
MacNeil, Martin – Soldier’s Cove - Assay office
MacPhee, Archie Sr, French Rd - Miner
MacPhee, Dannie – Miner (MG)
MacPhee, Father Norman, French Rd – Miner (MG)
MacPhee, Johnny French Road – Miner (MG)
MacEwen, Harvey - Texico, St Peter’s– (DL)
MacLean, Michael; Big Pond. (DMD) (FW) Click here on Dan Neil MacDonald to see his story about Michael
MacQueen, Angus, Framboise, JW Stephen’s Contractor, later Mill Carpenter (DMacQ)
MacQueen, Angus Archie; Stirling – Maintenance truck (WH)
MacVicar, Earl, Gabarus Lake. Spare bus driver Kings Bus line AKA "The Stirling bus"
MacRae, Lloyd; Oban (WH)
Mann, Billy – Gabarus – Loader (WH)Albert
Manny, Albert: (le comptable) - the accounter (EM). (1930's)
Martell, John L - Diamond Driller (EM) (WM)
Mason, Joe -Surveyor (BM)
Mason, (Joe's father)
Matheson, Donald George; Grand River – worked in the shaft (WH)
Matheson, Duncan Dan, Grand River – worked in the shaft (WH)
McCrea, Jim - President Dome Petroleum and Mindemar 1949-1952 (DS)
McPhee, Stanley; River Bourgeois - School teacher 1954 (AH)
Mercer, Sam (BarryM)
Michaelson, Gordon - Manager (BM)
Mitchell, Jim – Medic (IC)
Mombourquette, __________; Lower L’Ardoise (Manning and Tom’s uncle) – Chef (GS)
Morey, Ralph; Big Pond (FW)
Morrison (MacMaster), Mamie –Cookhouse and Assay office (BM/CMM)
Morrison, Bessie – Main office (BM)
Morrison, Dan – Stirling (BM)
Morrison, Kenneth, School teacher – Loch Lomond (PMacL/MacD)
Morrison, Kenny Angus – Framboise (DM)
Morrison, Lawrence – North Framboise- Lampman(WH) (AMacL)
Morrison, Melvin (Hoister) - Stirling (BM)
Morrison, Michael - Gabrus (LM)
Morrison, Murdock – Warehouse Clerk, Stirling – Checker, St Peter’s (DM)
Morrison, Willie P; Stirling –Landowner - rented out property (DMacL)
Mossman, John (LM)(ZF) (WH): Inverness
Muise, Angus - Cook (GML)
Munroe, John Archie Miner – Fourchu (EM) (A History of Fourchu)
Murrin, Eddy (Sports Director- student) – Glace Bay (MMacL)
Nickerson, Clayton - Fourcu (A History of Fourchu p 27)
O’Shaunnesey, Larry (BM)
Pahl, ________ Germany. (FR)
Parker, ___________
Paterson, Dolena, Cook house - Stirling
Patriquin, Truman (GMacD)
Payne, Lizzie- Cook-Nfld (MT)
Pate (Pottie), Gerald River Bourgeois student 1954 underground (GD)
Pottie, “Big” Henry; Thibeauville – Miner (DL) (GMacD)
Pottie, ______ ; River Bourgeois –Truck driver, Malcolm S. Mac Donald
Pottie, Joe; Samsonville (ISC)
Power, Tom (GMD)
Pozer, Bruce (DML)
Presseau, Armand 30’s and/or 50’s (MG)
Presseau, Arthur; Stirling – Mine Manager 1930’s (BM)
Presseau, John, Stirling - relieved Night Watchman 1930's (JP)
Presseau, Raymond, Stirling -relieved Night Watchman 1930's (JP)
Prime, Gilbert – Texico, St Peter’s (DL)
Rafuse, Melvin Fourchu (A History of Fourchu p 27)
Sample, Dept of Mines (CMacL/MacM)
Sampson, Barnaby; Lower L’Ardoise- Janitor (bunkhouses) (GS)
Sampson, Bernard (DL)
Sampson, Enos; Samsonville – Gatekeeper (IS/C)
Sampson, Martin; Samsonville – Assay office (samples) (IC/DML)
Sampson, Melvin; River Bourgeois (DL)
Sampson, Melvina; Samsonville – School teacher (DL)
Savoie Jessie – Clerk, Danny Shaw’s store (DM)
Sawyer, Leo; St Peter’s – Chef’s helper (GS)
Severance, Edwin, Mechanic Strachan’s Garage. He also worked on the cage for a time. Fourchu (EMG) (DS)
Severance, Robert 1930s/ Fourchu
Shaw, Danny – Store owner (BM)
Shaw, Florence; Loch Lomond – cook’s helper (CMacL/MacM) (AMacD)
Sheppard, Charlie, Fourchu -Mill Worker (GS) - May also have worked in the 30s
Sheppard, Havelock, Fourchu - Mill Worker ? (GS) May also have worked in the 30s
Singer, _________ (CML/MM)
Sisco, Stan -Assistant Mill Superintendent
Spinner, Earl – Manager of Spinner’s, Stirling Branch (MML)
Strachan, Donald Alexander (Dan)- 1920's/1930's
Strachan, George- Framboise 1920s/30's and 1950's
Strachan, Johnny, St Espirt – Operator (Pump House)– at first. He may have gone underground later. (WH)
Strachan, Kenny John, Framboise, Mill (AMD)
Strachan, Soutter; Framboise – 1920s/30s Miner. (Coon -Strachan Family)and 1950s - Foreman, Carpenter shop and Service Station Proprietor.(DS)
Stronach, ________. Mine Boss (BM)
Sullivan, Alex; St Andrew's Mine linesman
Sullivan, Joe; St Andrew's, Mine Linesman
Swayne, Jimmy; Gabarus -Welder (LM)
Timmons, ________; Pleasant Bay ()
Tremblay/Treblet, __________(DML)
Charlie VanCastle (HS)
Vankoski, Victor; Poland died Sept 25, 1936, while working at Stirling Mine (BME). Buried at St Margaret's Parish Cemetery, Grand Mira, NS.
Waldron, John - 1930s Fourchu (A History of Fourchu)
Walker, John - Fourchu (A History of Fourchu)
Walker, Duncan (DM)
Westlake, Truck Driver on site; Gabarus
White, Con; Glengarry Road, Big Pond - Cage Operator (DL) (FW)
Wright, Bill; - Head Electrician (DL)