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Word: capemen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

After three days they had had enough. They were good miners, said their boss, but they were soft-coal miners in a hard-coal mine and they seemed "as lost as a lobster in an Alberta lake." Said one of the Capemen: "We want no more of it. It's too hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: The Greener Grass | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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