The Kirkland Lake Miners Memorial

The Kirkland Lake Miners Memorial is a remembrance in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, committed to the city's mining workers. Amid the 1930s the town's 7 incredible gold mines gave one million dollars to the region's economy and utilized 4, 640 specialists. Be that as it may, now just a couple of mines stay, with Mcdermott mine, Hollaway, and Macassa mine is as yet open and with the end goal to respect all diggers, living and dead, the neighborhood Miners Memorial Foundation developed the 40-ton 10 meter tall Miners Memorial.

Notwithstanding the verifiable, social and character jobs of the Monument sketched out above, it conveys encourage essentialness to the network. The Monument roused Bernie Jaworsky to compose Lamps Forever Lit, A Memorial To Kirkland Lake Area Miners. After Mr. Jaworsky saw the rundown of the diggers' names he needed to 'get their accounts' also. In this manner set out gathering stories and photos from the families, particularly the dowagers, of the mineworkers' which he merged into his commemoration book.

The Monument's scaler figure is included on the front of Karl Beveridge and Jude Johnston's Marking Our Mark. The way that of the 13 landmarks and wall paintings included in their book it was Kirkland Lake's Miners' Memorial that they spoke to their book. The figure working the mucker was included in memorial mining stamp delivered by the Canada Post. The Monument and its stop are at present host to network picnics and regular caroling.