This slide shows a familiar underground scene in the later years of the mining operation. This particular dining room must have been one of the least pretentious in Canada - a crude table, three lunch tins, a calendar from a local meat store, an "Eastern Newfoundland" telephone directory and the now indispensable telephone. It was from phones like this one that the daily "tally" or production report was communicated from the working faces to the "main office." The telephone also sped word of disaster to the surface. As mines go, the Bell Island operation was relatively safe but over the years the cumulative toll of life and limb was considerable. "Perhaps those walls will be your tomb/Wabana you're a corker" - the thought was never far away.
