Northeast Mine
Bienfait, Saskatchewan, Canada
Old Abandoned Underground Coal Mines can be Very Dangerous, Due to Collapse, and Mine Gases (Noxious and Flammable).
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Northeast Mine
Located at LSD 10, Section 19, Township 2, Range 6, W2
1 mi East of Bienfait
Operating between 1946-1949 time period.
Exact time unknown before or after those dates.
Operated by Wheeler and Enmark
Don't know first names here to research them
Wilbur C. (Wilbert) (Shorty) Enmark
b- Oct 19, 1885 in Chicago, IL, USA
d- Feb 8, 1963, age 76
stepson to Robert Brown and Elizabeth Gillies
1911 living on Tsp 2, Rge 7 with the Gillies
A Shorty Enmark was weighman for the Bienfait-Hassard mine ca 1931
enlisted in WWI, June 5, 1917 in Moose Jaw SK
living in Bienfait SK, next of kin,
mother- Elizabeth Gilles, Bienfait SK
occupation- Miner, single, Reg #2188570
or Howard Victor Enmark?
b- 1893
d-Apr 26, 1962
both buried in Bienfait Cemetery
or Wilbur C. (Shorty) (Bill) Enmark
b- Apr 15, 1928
d- Nov 4, 2006
served with SSR in WWII at Dieppe, Reg #L12142
was it him? doubt it, as he was only born in 1928
Then which Wheeler?
Clarence Wheeler moved in 1928 to an Enmark farm near Bienfait
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