Title: In Memory Of ...

Description: This is the plaque in front of the old train station, now the Minto Museum, on Main Street, Minto. It was erected by the Minto Bi-Centennial Committee and originally unveiled in front of the Centennial Arena on 11 June 1983.

Source: David Frank.

Title: Five Deaths.

Description: A collage of newspaper photographs, showing the brothers Cyril Stack (top left) and Vernon Stack and (top right) Alan Gaudine and their rescuers Thomas Gallant (middle right) and Vernon Betts (bottom right). All five lost their lives in the mine shaft on 28 July 1932.

Source: Telegraph-Journal (Saint John), 29 July 1932.

Title: 28 July 1932.

Description: This photo was taken shortly after the disaster on 28 July 1932, in front of the miners' houses on Taylor Row. A.D. Taylor (right) was the mine manager for the Miramichi Lumber Company in Minto; he was also a Conservative MLA for the area; on 28 July he organized rescue efforts at No. 10 Shaft. Mathias Wuhr (centre) worked in No. 11 Shaft and received a Carnegie Medal for his courageous rescue efforts that day; in 1937 he became President of Local 7409, United Mine Workers of America. W. E. McMullen (left) was the provincial Inspector of Mines at the time of the tragedy; he arrived on the scene from Fredericton while the rescue was in progress; later he wrote amendments to the Mines Act to improve safety conditions.

Source: Minto Museum, Minto.

Title: Vernon Betts, 1918.

Description: Vernon Betts was about 19 years of age at the time of this photograph. He started work in the mines at the age of 16 and was one of the heroes who lost his life in the rescue efforts on 28 July 1932.

Source: Courtesy of Marguerite [née Betts] Barton.

Title: Minto Miners, 1934.

Description: This 1934 photograph of coal miners employed by the Miramichi Lumber Company at Minto includes one of the men who came to the rescue on 28 July 1932, Mathias Wuhr (front row, 16th from the left).

Source: Minto Museum, Minto.

Title: Greta Gallant, 1983.

Description: The widow of one of the heroes of 1932, Greta Gallant, assisted in the unveiling of the memorial plaque at its original location at the Minto Centennial Arena on 11 June 1983. She and Grace Betts pursued their case for compensation to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Source: Courtesy of Orvilla Bartlett and Kelly Bishop, Grand Lake Mirror .

Title: Miners Memorial, 1984.

Description: This monument in a memorial park at Queen and Legion Streets in Minto was unveiled on 11 June 1984 by Local 7409, United Mine Workers of America in memory of all coal miners who lost their lives on the job in the Grand Lake coalfield.

Source: David Frank.