The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame selects and inducts individuals from all facets of the mining industry. They have two things in common: their significant and lasting impact on Canada’s mining industry, and through their achievements, their contribution to the high standard of living shared by all Canadians.
1990
Robert Crooks Stanley (1876 – 1951)
Robert C. Stanley was the driving force that built Inco into the largest nickel company in the world and one of the world’s most success...
1990
Alex Mosher (1900 – 1993)
Since the turn of the century, the mining prospector has been a romantic figure in Canadian folklore. Justifiably so, because it has usual...
1990
Eldon Leslie Brown (1900 – 1998)
Mining on Canada’s northern frontier poses a particular set of challenges and few mining men had more successful experience with them th...
1990
John Ross Bradfield (1899 – 1983)
So diverse were the achievements of John Bradfield that he can well be characterized as a coach who built a winning team capable of excell...
1990
Selwyn Gwillym Blaylock (1879 – 1945)
Selwyn G. Blaylock devoted a working lifetime to mines and minerals and left a number of monuments to his effectiveness including: A succe...
1990
Hector Authier (1881 – 1971)
In a life span of 89 years, Hector Authier drank deeply from the cup of Canadian life and enriched his country in the process. All Abitibi...
1990
William Fleming James (1894 – 1991)
Prominently displayed in the halls of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, is a plaque that reads:“GENEROUSLY SUPPO...
1990
Norman Bell Keevil (1910 – 1989)
To win acclaim in one lifetime either as a prospector, a scientist, a mine maker or a corporate builder is no small achievement; each occu...
