page_title: Cadomin
section_title: Mining
hierarchical_section_title: Cadomin / History / Mining
caption_attribution_description: English: The Legion of Cadomin. Branch 124. Only open in the summer months now two days per week. This was once open year round and many of the Hamlet's residents would watch projected films here and stage plays, etc. July 2011
context_page_description: Cadomin is a hamlet in the west-central Alberta, Canada within Yellowhead County. It is located along the McLeod River in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, approximately 50 kilometres south of Hinton near the Bighorn Highway. It is served by a spur of the Canadian National Railway.
  Statistics Canada recognizes Cadomin as a designated place. It is located in census division No. 14 and in the riding of Yellowhead. It is administered by Yellowhead County.
context_section_description: The Cadomin Coal Company began operations in 1917 and four underground mines were eventually developed, as well as a surface mine that operated from 1944 to 1950. The main coal seam, called the No. 1 Seam, averaged 33 feet (10 m) in thicknesses. The strata in the area are strongly folded and faulted, and the seam is strongly inclined to overturned, so a variety of methods were employed to work it. The coal was sold primarily as steam coal for railroad use, and the Cadomin coal mines closed in 1952 due to declining markets as the railroads replaced steam locomotives with diesel. 
  Cadomin Quarry, operated by the Lehigh Cement Company (formerly Inland Cement), continues to employ a small number of local residents.
caption: Cadomin Legion 2011
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