A Miner's Life
Surviving the depressionArchive: Canada 1928-1939
Who Went Where
By the late fall of 1925, just months after completing the agricultural program, the three boys had apparently concluded that farming was not their schtick. Maurice probably never held the illusion that it was, for I have found no evidence that he stayed with his brothers in Canada. My guess is that he headed home to England. However, Frank and Geoffrey gave farming a shot. They worked the harvest in Alberta that year but by late fall, they had jobs at Britannia Mines near Vancouver.
Mining Beats Farming
Geoffrey seems to have taken to the work for he went on to become a geologist. Frank too, held a life-long interest in geology but chose to continue working at Britannia and later Pioneer Mine in the British Columbia interior for some years. No doubt it was a matter of financial duress, for the depression was well underway by the early thirties.
Life in Britannia
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Britannia: The Story of a Mine
S Frank Bruce created these images in the 1960s for the book ‘Britannia: The story of a Mine’
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Ernest Robert Bruce, my great uncle. Ernest was the Director of Exhibits for the CPR
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