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.
1989
Murray E. Watts (1909 – 1982)
Murray Edmund Watts, a combination of adventurous prospector and mining engineer, is probably best known for his work in the Arctic, where...
1989
Jules R. Timmins (1889 – 1971)
Jules Timmins’ finest hour, and his claim to mining fame, occurred when he brought into being the iron ore fields of northern Quebec and...
1989
Karl Springer (1899 – 1991)
Karl Springer, a highly successful mine-finder, has amply proved in his career as a prospector that not only could he find the mines but t...
1989
Stephen B. Roman (1921 – 1988)
It was not for nothing that The Northern Miner, the weekly journal of Canada’s mining industry, in 1977 chose Stephen B. Roman as its fi...
1989
James Y. Murdoch (1890 – 1962)
A lawyer by profession, James Y. Murdoch, who became first president of the fledgling Noranda Mines in 1922, at the age of 32, was one of ...
1989
Thayer Lindsley (1882 – 1976)
Thayer Lindsley, the father of such mining giants as Falconbridge Ltd., Ventures Ltd. and Frobisher, has been described as the greatest mi...
1989
Gilbert A. LaBine (1890 – 1977)
Gilbert LaBine helped shape the course of world history when in 1930 he discovered pitchblende at Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territo...
1989
Franc R. Joubin (1911 – 1997)
Like another great Canadian mine-finder, Gilbert LaBine (now, too, enshrined in the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame), Franc R. Joubin also ma...
