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Note: The CRBC, the predecessor of today's CBC, was
named the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, (not "Broadcast Company" as stated on the interpretative panel). The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was incorporated, to replace the CRBC, on 2 November 1936, just six months after the Moose River Gold Mine collapse and subsequent rescue. |
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J. Frank Willis made famous by the 1936 Moose River mine disaster...
A live five-minute broadcast every half-hour for 69 hours... The wide attention these frequent updates receive makes citizens realize the power of radio, and jump-starts the Canadian radio industry... http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/personal/hof/willis_j.html Ten Days in Hell: The 1936 Moose River Mine Disaster by Shirley Collingridge Frank Willis' hourly updates jump started the Canadian radio industry. And his reporting style turned the Moose River disaster into the biggest radio story of the first half of the twentieth century... http://www.shirleycollingridge.com/mooseriver.htm Canada's Moose River Mine Disaster (1936): Radio-Newspaper Competition... by Jeff Webb. In 1936 the attempt to rescue three men than had become trapped in an abandoned mine shaft in Nova Scotia was broadcast live across North America. This was the world's first live-unscripted news broadcast. The broadcaster on the scene had no previous journalistic training... http://web.cs.mun.ca/~harold/jwebb/Abstracts/abs_HJFRT_96.html People in Holes NPR (U.S. National Public Radio) 25 July 2003 History tells us that the public will always respond to stories about people trapped in holes... J. FRANK WILLIS: It is a frozen country down here – drab and desolate; a country of scrub and second growth; of rock – rock – relentless, hard, cruel-hard. It is against rock of this sort that miners for the past week have fought and fought, grim-lipped, determined. And they're winning their fight – inch by inch the rock is retreating... MIKE PESCA: One man died; two survived. The Moose River Cave In was one of the first times that radio displayed its power to connect with listeners on a real life event occurring in real time... http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/transcripts/transcripts_072503_holes.html Moose River Mine Disaster CBC Archives http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-70-672-3860-20/that_was_then/ disasters_tragedies/moose_river The Birth and Death of The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (1932-1936) The most memorable CRBC program achievement was the coverage of the Moose River Mine Disaster in April 1936 in Nova Scotia ... The CRBC made Frank Willis's reports available to all Canadian radio stations and over 650 stations in the U. S. as well as the BBC in Britain... http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/networks/networks_CRBC.html Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/networks/networks_CRBC_Programming.html Pre CBC: 1900-1936 http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cbc/milestones/00_36.html Canadian Broadcast Timeline by Colin Miller http://www.odxa.on.ca/archives/timelinebc.html Books on the History of Radio and Television Broadcasting in Canada by Harold Sellers http://www.odxa.on.ca/archives/timelinebooks.html Brief History of the CBC ...in 1936 a marathon actuality broadcast from the scene of the Moose River mine cave-in, in Nova Scotia. For three days and nights, with improvised equipment, a borrowed car as a studio, and the same small team on the job the whole time, bulletins were (broadcast live)... http://radio.cbc.ca/facilities/cbc-history.html Radio: The People's Medium Athabaska University Objective 2: Explain the role played by the Aird Commission (1928), the Moose River Mine Disaster (1936), and the Royal Tour (1939) in the history of Canadian radio... http://www.athabascau.ca/courses/cmns/302/unit6guide.html |
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Collapse of the Moose River Gold Mine, April 1936 Archived: 2004 March 08 /hfxrm/moosegoldm.html |
Goldboro war memorial Goldboro
St. Mary's Municipality war memorial Sherbrooke
Spanish Ship Bay war memorial Spanish Ship Bay
Charlos Cove historical plaque Charlos Cove
New Harbour war memorial New Harbour
Miners Memorial monument 1891 Westville
Westray Miners Memorial Park New Glasgow
The Ovens Gold Mines plaque The Ovens
S.S. Atlantic 1873: memorial at Sandy Cove Terence Bay
Halifax war memorial The Cenotaph, Grand Parade
Welsford-Parker monument, Crimean War Halifax