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Stephen Ellis

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Cumberland—Colchester
  • Nova Scotia
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
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Context: House Hansard - 129 - Nov/17/22
Mr. Stephen Ellis (Cumberland—Colchester, CPC)
  • Nov/17/22 2:05:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, “Get up!” the caller calls, “Get up!” And in the dead of night, To win the bairns their bite and sup, I rise a weary wight. My flannel dudden donn’d, thrice o’er My birds are kiss’d, and then I with a whistle shut the door, I may not ope again. This was, of course, written by the pitman poet, Joseph Skipsey. As the snow has begun in Canada, I thought it appropriate to highlight the “blood on the coal” tartan. It commemorates the coal miners who lived, worked and died in the designer's hometown of Springhill, Nova Scotia, in my riding of Cumberland—Colchester. Coal has been mined in Canada since 1639, and most of the mines in Nova Scotia have been since abandoned. Miners Memorial Day is also known as Davis Day in honour of William Davis. Davis was killed in a riot in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, in 1925 during a confrontation with company police. There was a targeted campaign to break the miners' union. There are four colours on this tartan: black is for the coal and the darkness of the mine; yellow is for the miner's lamp; red represents the blood on the coal of the miners' lives lost; and white represents the remembrance of their lives. Miners Memorial Day is an occasion to remember and mourn all miners killed in provincial coal mines.
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