Interpreting personalized industrial heritage in the mining towns of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia: Landscape examples from Springhill and River Hebert

Urban History Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 51-59

  Summerby Murray, Robert ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DEINDUSTRIALIZATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; MINING INDUSTRY; PLACE NAME; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

CANADA; CUMBERLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 33947112333     PISSN: 07030428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/1015921ar     Document Type: Article

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