Dying Hard

In 1970s Newfoundland, three entire communities were dying out because their men had spent the last four decades working in the fluorspar mines under deplorable conditions that caused them to develop cancer, silicosis, arthritis and a variety of lung diseases. Several of the last survivors of the town of St. Lawrence, NFLD, had their thoughts, fears, and desperate hopes recorded for posterity by a visiting professor from Memorial University, and in Dying Hard, Mikaela Dyke brings these voices to vivid life.