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A visit to the St. Lawrence Miner's Memorial Museum will showcase the harsh realities of a miner's life.  It's gift shop displays jewelry items from local cut a polished fluorspar crafted by members of the Three-L Training Board.


    

Located on the main entrance into St. Lawrence adjacent to the community cemetery one will locate the Miners' Museum.  The location becomes very fitting after a tour through the museum retells a story of hard working men who literally worked themselves into a early grave.
 
As one moves throughout the building images of those who worked at the mine comes back to life: what they wore, what equipment they worked with, and the conditions that were endured in order to provide for one's family.

The Historical Origins of an Industrial Disaster: Occupational Health and Labour Relations at the Fluorspar Mines, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland,1933-1945. Rick Rennie

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Upon leaving one cannot help but feel for those who are now remembered only by the tombstones that are reflected in the windows of the Miners Museum.
 
   
   

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