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Cape Breton miner opens up about trauma, addiction, recovery, service
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MacArthur, 78, has just released his memoir, Seven Miles Under the Atlantic.
And I was brought right up in the middle of it,” said MacArthur, now 78, who’s promoting his recently published memoir, Seven Miles Under the Atlantic: A Coal Miner’s Journey Through Trauma, Addiction, Recovery and Service.
12 Colliery in his native New Waterford in 1967.
It also shows Local 1888, which represents the local for the long-closed Lingan Mine.
Although he suffers from coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, commonly known as black lung disease, and needs an oxygen tank to breathe, MacArthur said he needs to attend Davis Day ceremonies to remember two men he saw die in 1968, and another from a 1982 fatality.
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Cape Breton miner opens up about trauma, addiction, recovery, service
Hughie MacArthur, 78, pens honest memoir of life and times from coal mines to United Mine Workers of America
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By Ian Nathanson
Published Oct 27, 2026
Hughie MacArthur stands near a coal car not dissimilar to one that carried one of his injured coal mining buddies before passing away in his arms. MacArthur, 78, has just released his memoir, Seven Miles Under the Atlantic.…
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