Reserve Mines

It is located immediately west of Glace Bay and 10 kilometres northeast of Sydney.

Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport is located in the western part of the community.

The Antigonish Movement aided Reserve Mines in the mid-1930s when Father Jimmy Tompkins, Moses Coady and Mary E. Arnold helped the small town with education, housing and the first credit union.

Reserve Mines is also known as the home of harness racing grand circuit winner Lambert Todd with a lifetime mark of 2.02.1 in the early 1920s.

This Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia location article is a stub.

Former coal mine at Reserve Mines, ca 1900. the mine closed in the mid-1950s.