Baie Verte is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ... Baie Verte is a town located on the Northeast coast of Newfoundland and Labrador on the Baie Verte Peninsula in White Bay near Coachmans Cove. ...
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The BaieVerte asbestos deposit was discovered in 1955, and Advocate Mines, a division of the giant Johns-Manville Company, began open-pit mining there in the same year.
The BaieVerte miners' strike was significant in a number of ways, not least because it was one of the first strikes in Canada fought almost solely on the issue of occupational health and safety.
The asbestos mine at BaieVerte was reopened in 1982 by Transpacific Asbestos Limited, which ran the operation under the name of BaieVerte Mines Limited.
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