Item is a typed report written by Professor C.V. Douglas and N.R. Goodman from the Department of Geology at Dalhousie University based on field work carried out in 1940.
File contains hand-drawn and printed maps of coal fields and designated areas, including Pictou coal fields; the Mining Association area; Cape Breton Company's areas; Albion Mines; Stellar Mine; Fraser Oil-Coal Mines; Intercolonial Coal Mining Company property; East River Mining Company area; Acadian Coal Company areas; and the Halifax Company Ltd.
Folder consists various documents compiled by Joseph G. S. Hudson. Some titles include: "Sections of the Sydney Coal Fields, Cape Breton", "Royal Commission on Coal Suppliers", "where the greatest depths were reached", "Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company", "Sub-marine working of coal seams", "Accidents in mines Commission", "Under sea working of coal seams - Royal Commission on Coal supplies", Sub-marine areas - the mining law of Nova Scotia" and "Notes and explanations, Mines and minerals act".
