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Reserve Mines (2009 pop.: 2,402) is a community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. It is located immediately west of Glace Bay and 10 kilometres northeast of

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. 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-1930s when Father Jimmy Tompkins,

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and Mary E. Arnold 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. Later they were used for an airshaft and escape passage from Number 26 Colliery in Glace Bay. Reserve Mines is also known as the home of harness racing grand circuit winner

Lambert Todd Lambert Todd was a Standardbred racehorse foaled in 1916 in Ontario, the son of Jim Todd (2.08.1) and Gracie Lambert. Lambert Todd performed in the grand circuit before going to Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the ...

with a lifetime mark of 2.02.1 in the early 1920s.

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Communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mining communities in Nova Scotia General Service Areas in Nova Scotia {{CapeBretonNS-geo-stub

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