A second interview with Bill Cottle

Audio recording and transcript of Bill Cottle's 1979 interviews with Myrtle Bergren for the Coal Tyee History Project. In a series of interviews, Cottle shares many stories he knows about people connected to Nanaimo, including: Alvo von Alvensleben, Samuel Robins, James Dunsmuir, Jack Grant, William Sloan, Eliza Butler and her mother, and Adam Grant Horne. He shares details about Nanaimo's explosive industry where both he and his cousin worked. He talks about working as a pump man in the coal mines, about the two different Jingle Pot Mines, and about the Harewood Mine's aerial tramway. He also talks about the 1887 explosion in the #1 Esplanade Mine and what he heard about what was found inside when the mine was reopened years later.