A tall, slender white marble tombstone, topped with a Grecian urn, marks the final resting place of William Davis, a 37-year-old coal miner who lost his life during a protest outside a company-owned pumping station and power plant in 1925. His death would have repercussions that are still felt in coal-mining communities across the province of Nova Scotia. Born in England in 1887, William Davis came from a coal mining family; he had even lost a brother in the 1891 Springhill mining disaster. He settled in the small Cape Breton…
