Nina Cohen

Nina Cohen OC
Born	1907 (1907)
Died	1991 (aged 83–84)
Known for	Cape Breton Miners Museum
Awards	Order of Canada

Nina Cohen OC (1907 – 1991) was a Canadian philanthropist from Nova Scotia who founded the Cape Breton Miners Museum. She was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1968.

Biography

Cohen was born in 1907 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, to parents Max and Rose Fried. She had three siblings. Cohen graduated from Glace Bay High School, and attended secondary school at Mount Allison Ladies College. During her time at the college she married her husband Harry Cohen. Cohen and her husband had one child, later adopting two more children who had become orphaned as a result of the Holocaust.

Cohen founded the local Red Cross Society in Cape Breton, and was the driving force behind the creation of the Cape Breton Miners Museum. She worked to ensure that the Cape Breton Miners Museum could open in time for the Canadian Centennial celebrations. The museum opened on 31 July 1967. Cohen was also known locally for her efforts as chair of Cape Breton's tourist association board, and as national President of Hadassah-WIZO.

Cohen was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada on 26 April 1968.

References

Sources

• "Nina Cohen the driving force behind miners museum". PNI Atlantic News. Postmedia Network. 11 April 2013. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
• "Cape Breton activist set her sights on coal miners choir". PNI Atlantic News. Postmedia Network. 18 April 2013. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
• "The legacy of Nina Cohen and the Centennial Celebrations". CBC News. 22 April 2013. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
• Higgins, Hal (19 April 2016). "Men of the Deeps director wins Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award". CBC News. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
• "Nina Cohen, 1907 — 1991". Nova Scotia Museum. 27 June 2017. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
• "Canadian New Year's Honors for Samuel Bronfman, Mrs. Nina Cohen". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 29 December 1967. Archived from the original on 5 August 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
• MacKinnon, Lachian (1 January 2013). "Labour and the Commemorative Landscape in Industrial Cape Breton, 1922-2013". Érudit. 77–78. Cape Breton University Press: 56–75. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
• "Vanguard: 150 years". McCulloch House Museum & Genealogy Centre. 18 November 2018. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
• "Ms. Nina F. Cohen". Governor General of Canada. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2025.

External links

• Data related to Nina Cohen at Wikidata