Publications
John Sandlos, “The Accidental Underground: Death and Injury in Ontario’s Mining Industry,” in Megan J. Davies and Geoffrey Hudson, eds. An Accidental History of Canada (Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024), 61-88.
John Sandlos, “Remembering the Hillcrest Mining Disaster,” Canadian Mining Journal 145, no. 7 (October 2024), pp. 35-36.
John Sandlos, “Fire and the Mining Frontier,” Canadian Mining Journal 145, no. 3 (May 2024), pp. 51-52.
John Sandlos, “Cobalt’s Boomtown Blues,” Canadian Mining Journal 145, no. 1 (February/March 2024), pp. 51-52.
John Sandlos, “Unearthing Black History in the Mining Industry in Canada,” Canadian Mining Journal 144, no. 8 (September 2023), pp. 43-44.
Conference Presentations
Sandlos, J. “Worked to Death: The Historical Production of Lethal Spaces in Ontario’s Mining Industry,” Canadian Association of Geographers Conference, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s (August 15, 2024).
“The Accidental Underground: Death and Injury in Ontario’s Mining Industry,” Canadian Historical Association Conference (cross-listed with Canadian Society for the History of Medicine), York University, Toronto (May 29, 2023).
Completed Theses and Dissertations
Ezekiel Abakah, “Assessing the Impact of Mining Pollution on the Workers and Mining Communities: A Case Study of Buchans Mines, Newfoundland, 1960-1984.” MA History. Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Tayo Zubair, “Safety, Survival and Rescue Operations: Exploring Resilience in the Springhill Disasters, 1891-1958.” MA History/Geography. Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Forthcoming Publications
John Sandlos and Arn Keeling, The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution and Resistance in Yellowknife (accepted and forthcoming from McGill-Queen’s UP, September 2025). https://utpdistribution.com/9780228026174/the-price-of-gold/
John Sandlos, “Environmental History of Mining.” Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental History, ed. Lisa Brady (online series of annotated bibliography with interpretive essays), New York: Oxford University Press (accepted January 2025).
Media
Francesca Fionda, “Unearthing the History of Nova Scotia’s Black Miners,” The Narwhal, 25 February 2025.