In today's episode we visit the Leitch Collieries Provincial Historic Site in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada.
From 1907 to 1915, Leitch Collieries Coal and Coke Company operated its surface workings here.
It was one of the largest coal mines and the only completely Canadian owned and operated coal company in the early history of the pass.
The first entry into coal seams occurred at Byron Creek, south of the present site. The No. 2 Mine was developed in 1909 in the area known locally as Police Flats.
They pursued massive development and the mine was heavily mortgaged to cover the costs.
Bad luck would soon hit the mine. There were strikes in 1909 and 1911 but development continued using non-union labor.
The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 softened coal markets, and contracts with England, the Balkan countries and the United States never materialized.
Relations became strained with the banks and also with the Canadian Pacific Railway, an important customer and transporter of the coal and coke.
Bad luck continued until coal production ceased in 1915.
An agreement to sell the mine for $1,000,000 was reached with John Frankland but he died before the deal was completed.
Unable to raise the capital to start production again, Leitch Collieries missed the opportunity when neighboring mines expanded production to
meet war demands.
By 1919, Leitch Collieries was forced to liquidate its assets.
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