A heroic sacrifice at the East Sullivan mineThe forgotten story of a Polish immigrant who saved the lives of his colleagues after an underground accident

The forgotten story of a Polish immigrant who saved the lives of his colleagues after an underground accident

By Tijana Mitrovic

August 10, 2020

East Sullivan Gold Mine near Val-d’Or, Quebec. Courtesy of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

In 1950, CIM president-elect A.O. Dufresne handed the CIM Medal for Bravery to Father Titus Wiktor of Val-d’Or, Quebec. “This particular ceremony,” it was reported in the CIM Bulletin from the time, “was this year more significant than usual due to the fact that the Medal had been awarded posthumously and for an extraordinarily brave deed.”

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