Interview with George Badovinac

Audio recording and transcript of George Badovinac's 1979 interview with Myrtle Bergren for the Coal Tyee History Project. Badovinac talks about his family's journey from Croatia to Ladysmith. He explains how his father was a coal miner working in Extension and how he had a near miss during the 1909 explosion there, but he was later killed in the mine in 1929. Badovinac starting his own career as a miner when he was 15 years old, and he shares some of his memories of working with mules. Badovinac also gives some details about the Croatian community in Ladysmith.