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Anniversary of mining disaster

Flags at City of Nanaimo facilities will be lowered to half mast today (Tues).

It’s to mark the anniversary of the coal mining disaster of 1887 that took 150 lives.

The explosions at the Esplanade Mine are known as the worst mining disaster in British Columbia’s history and second worst in Canada.

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