Joggins, Nova Scotia
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View of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs
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 Joggins
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| Coordinates: 45°41′30.78″N 64°26′36.85″W / 45.6918833°N 64.4435694°WCoordinates: 45°41′30.78″N 64°26′36.85″W / 45.6918833°N 64.4435694°W | |
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 Canada
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 Nova Scotia
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| Municipality | Cumberland County |
| Incorporated | 1919 |
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) |
| Official name | Joggins Fossil Cliffs |
| Type | Natural |
| Criteria | viii |
| Designated | 2008 (32nd session) |
| Reference no. | 1285 |
| State Party | Canada |
| Region | Europe and North America |
Joggins is a Canadian rural community located in western Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. On July 7, 2008 a 15 km length of the coast constituting the Joggins Fossil Cliffs was officially inscribed on the World Heritage List.
The area was known to the Mi'kmaq as "Chegoggins" meaning place of the large fish weir, a name modified by French and English settlers to Joggins. Situated on the Cumberland Basin, a sub-basin of the Bay of Fundy, Joggins was a long established coal mining area. Its coal seams which are exposed along the shore of the Cumberland Basin were exploited as early as 1686 by local Acadian settlers and by the British garrison at Annapolis Royal in 1715.
The first commercial mine was set up by Major Henry Cope in 1731, but was destroyed by the Mi'kmaq in November 1732. Samuel McCully opened a mine in 1819 with much of his production being shipped by sea to Saint John, New Brunswick and other markets, but went out of business in 1821 having mined less than 600 tons.
Large-scale industrialization came to Cumberland County under the General Mining Association, which held the rights to the area's coal fields. Commencing at Joggins in 1847, production increased after the construction of the Intercolonial Railway in the 1870s, followed by the 1887 opening of the Joggins Railway, a 12-mile rail line from mines at Joggins to the Intercolonial mainline at Maccan, through River Hebert.
Old coal mine working are eroding out of the sea-cliffs at Joggins. Recently dendrochronology had been employed to date the timber pit props. A late nineteenth century age has been inferred, with most props dating from the 1860s and 1870s.
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