Journalists from around the world and mine officials surround telephone employee Allister Bowman (centre) as he listens on earphones for word of three miners trapped 36 metres underground at a gold mine in Moose River, N.S., in 1936. It was six days before taps were heard through the rock from trapped men. Just after midnight on April 23, 1936 two of the three men were rescued. (CP PHOTO/National Archives of Canada)