TNM Blast from the Past: Birth of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame

The recent Canadian Mining Hall of Fame awards gala stirred memories at The Miner of how it all got started. We dug out the paper files to find this shot at the first ever awards and further back to find an editorial lighting the fire. Nearly 40 years ago now, here’s the pitch that started the innings.

 

 

 

All the Hall’s Inductees:

1989: James Y. Murdoch; Thayer Lindsley; Gilbert A. LaBine; Franc R. Joubin; Murray E. Watts; Jules R. Timmins; H. H. “Spud” Huestis; Dr. Duncan R. Derry; Karl Springer; Stephen B. Roman; Frederick M. Connell; Pierre Beauchemin.

1990: Robert Crooks Stanley; Alex Mosher; Eldon Leslie Brown; John Ross Bradfield; Selwyn Gwillym Blaylock; Hector Authier; William Fleming James; Norman Bell Keevil.

1991: Ralph D. Parker; Viola R. MacMillan; John C. MacIsaac; Albert A. Koffman; John E. Hammell; Randolph W. Diamond; John D. Simpson; Richard and Norman C. Pearce.

1992: Sir William Logan; Oliver Hall; James Roycroft Gordon; Horace John Fraser; A.O. Dufresne; Neil Campbell; Matthew James Boylen; Robert William Boyle; Arthur W. White.

1993: Donald M. Hogarth; Joseph Arlington Retty; John Williams McBean; Henry Verney Warren; Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon.

1994: Côme Carbonneau; Bernard O. Brynelsen; John Kostuik; Willet Green Miller; Joseph H. Hirshhorn; James Paul Norrie.

1995: Louis Renzoni; Donald A. McLeod; Egil H. Lorntzsen; James Gerald McCrea; Ed Horne.

1996: Robert Jowsey; John Hammell; Donald A. McLeod; John Errington; James Darragh; Gerald Hatch; Kate Rice.

1997: William S. Row; Charles E. Michener; Arthur Thomas Griffis; Tony Barringer; Robert Henderson; Edmund Ernest “Benny” Hollinger.

1998: Gerald G. Hatch; Herbert E. T. Haultain; Benjamin Taylor A. Bell; Archibald M. Bell.

1999: Harry Verney Warren; Stephen P. Ogryzlo; Anthony (Tony) Barringer; Maurice Russell Brown; Paul Penna.

2000: Robert Hallbauer; Benny Hollinger; John Paris Bickell; James H. McKinley.

2001: William Guy Brissenden; Marsh A. Cooper; Alexander Stewart Dadson; Richard Geren; John Fairfield Thompson; James Merritt Harrison.

2002: Peter Munk; William James.

2003: Vladimir Nicolaus Mackiw; James Edward Gill; Richard J. Ennis; The Cobalt Discoverers.

2004: Dr. Norman B. Keevil; Michael J. Knuckey; Walter J. Riva; Edgar A. Scholz.

2005: J. Tuzo Wilson; W. Austin McVeigh; Adolphe “Lap” La Prairie; Alan Kulan.

2006: John Convey; Nathanael V. Davis; Bruce J. Grierson; James J. McDougall; Richard W. Hutchinson; Seymour Schulich.

2007: Harry L. Roscoe; R.G.K. Morrison; Alfred E. Miller; George B. Cross.

2008: Chester F. Millar; David A. Thompson; Johannes J. Brummer; Ernest Craig; Carroll O. Brawner.

2009: D. Grenville Thomas; Roman Shklanka; Bernard M. Michel; Donald H. Gorman.

2010: Victor C. Wansbrough; Timmins Mine Finders / Builders; Graham Farquharson; Hugo T. Dummett; Peter M. Brown.

2011: Mike Muzylowski; Bert Wasmund; John T. Williamson.

2012: John A. Hansuld; Phillip G. Hallof; Ned Goodman; Robert Hunter and Robert Dickinson.

2013: James C. O’Rourke; Pierre Lassonde; Gerald W. Grandey; Charles E. Fipke.

2014: David S. Robertson; Kathleen C.S. Rice; C. Mark Rebagliati; John (Jack) F. McOuat.

2015: Mackenzie Iles Watson; Ian Telfer; Ronald K. Netolitzky.

2016: Stewart L. Blusson; Harold (Hank) Williams; Robert Friedland; Louis Gignac.

2017: John Zigarlick, Jr.; Donald A. McLeod; Robert R. McEwen.

2018: A. Terrance MacGibbon; Robert A. Gannicott; Ross J. Beaty; Edward G. Thompson.

2019: A.M. “Sandy” Laird; Brian K. G. Meikle; James M. Franklin; James W. Gill.

2020: Hans T.F. Lundberg; P. Jerry Asp; Alex G. Balogh; Ebe Scherkus.

2021: David Elliott; William Gladstone Jewitt; Steven D. Scott; Patricia Dillon; Mary Edith Tyrrell.

2022: F. Dale Corman; Peter Risby; Phillip John Mackey; Robert Quartermain; Maureen C. Jensen.

2023: Alexander John Davidson; Douglas Balfour Silver; Jim Cooney.

2024: Eric Sprott; William E. Roscoe; John T. Postle; Ross D. Lawrence; David R. Bell.

2025: Sean Boyd; Patricia Ann Sheahan; Frank Giustra; Donald Roderick MacLean.

2026: Gordon Garfield Morrison; Don Lindsay; David Harquail; Catherine McLeod-Seltzer.