Annual celebration of Workers' Memorial Day will be held at the Falconbridge Branch 336 Legion hall
Sudbury's labour community will come together this week to commemorate the tragedy that took the lives of four local miners nearly forty years ago.
The event begins at 9:30 a.m. and will be in tribute to the lives of the men who died as the result of a rock burst that occurred on the morning of June 20, 1984 at the Falconbridge Mine. "The rock burst was so powerful it was felt in many parts of Sudbury, including the downtown," said the release.
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