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The Nova Scotia Royal Commission on Acadia Coal Company was created by Order-in-Council on August 2, 1937. Justice William F. Carroll, judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, was appointed chairperson with A. Stanley MacKenzie, chair of the NS Economic Council, and Frederick H. Sexton, lawyer and principal of the NS Technical College, as co-commissioners. Its mandate was to investigate the financial position and affairs of the Acadia Coal Company in relation to its competitors, the wages paid to its workers, the scope of its mining operations, and to determine if external interest exists in its mining property leased from the NS Government. The Royal Commission held public meetings in Stellarton, Pictou County on August 17, 26, and 27, 1937, and February 22, 1938, hired accountant D.S. Hart to examine Acadia Coal Co. Ltd. finances back to 1933, and hired an independent mining engineer George S. Rice to examine mine workings and talk with miners. The commissioners submitted their final report to His Honour Robert Irwin, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, on January 19, 1939 and then disbanded.
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CREATED 2022-12-06 Karen White
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