WALES and CHILE The SWANSEA - VALPARISO and other CONNECTIONS.

1. Welsh Assembly Government | The First Minister congratulates Chile

   13 Oct 2010 ... Wales, with its proud mining heritage, today sent a message of congratulations to the people of Chile as the trapped miners of San José were ...
   wales.gov.uk/newsroom/firstminister/2010/101014chile/?lang=en - Cached

2. WalesOnline - News - Wales News - Chile rescuers getting closer to ...

   8 Oct 2010 ... Chile's mining minister announced that a shaft wide enough to provide an escape for 33 trapped miners should reach the men by tomorrow – and ...www.walesonline.co.uk/.../wales.../chile-rescuers-getting-closer-to-stranded-miners-91466-27428755/ - Cached

3. Daily Post North Wales - Videos & Pics - News - Miners rescue in Chile

   13 Oct 2010 ... See some of the incredible pictures from the scene of the miners rescue inChile.www.dailypost.co.uk/.../miners-rescue-in-chile-55578-27461433/ - Cached

4. President of Chile asks Mumbles, Swansea, church for their bells back

   
   

6 Feb 2010 ... It will also help to strengthen historic links between Swansea and Santiago which were first forged during the Cape Horner copper trade. ...
www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/President-Chile...Swansea.../article.html

The story of the bells of Santiago

Here is our report prior to the bells being returned to Chile: ... whose family had many business connections in the copper ore trade in South America. ... Castle Swansea - who had business connections with the copper mines in Chile. ...
www.oystermouthparish.com/bells-of-santiago - Cached - Similar

1. Historic bells returned to Chile from Wales after 147 years

   30 Sep 2010 ... Three bells from the Church of the Company of Jesus, a Jesuit church that burned in Santiago in 1863 causing the death of nearly 2500 people ...
   www.digitaljournal.com/article/298307 - Cached

2. Helping to strike up Chile link - This is South Wales

   21 Sep 2010 ... A MUMBLES church has welcomed some special guests who are helping to preserve a link between South West Wales and Chile.
   www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Helping-strike-Chile-link/.../article.html
   
   

   The Swansea Copper Barques and Cape Horners by Joanna Greenlaw

   In the 19th century 90% of the world's copper was smelted in Swansea valley. ... not only for copper ore, but guano and nitrates from Chile and Peru, and wheat from ... This book comprehensively describes the copper trade, the owners, ...
   www.dinefwrpublishers.com/.../the-swansea-copper-barques-and-cape-horners/ - Cached

   
   

   SW Maritime History - Our Family of Cape Horners Vol.1 - The ...

   The Swansea copper-ore trade to Santiago de Cuba and later to Chile as famed for its hard-driven small barques, and the hard driving Welsh master mariners ...
   www.swmaritime.org.uk/forums/thread.php?threadid=607 - Cached

   
   

   WalesOnline - News - Wales News - How slavery made Wales ...

   18 Aug 2010 ... Slave ships may not have docked at Welsh ports, but the trade shaped the landscape of Wales. ... Prof Evans writes: “[For] a generation the pull of Swansea's coppersmelters had drawn Cuba into a close commercial relationship with Wales. ... British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile ...
   www.walesonline.co.uk/.../how-slavery-made-wales-industrialists-wealthy-at-a-time-when-the-trade-was-officially-abolished-91466-27... - Cached

   
   

   YouTube - Old Swansea Town Once More (A) (pp 323-324)

   21 Jun 2009... in Welsh ships of the Copper Ore Trade in the 1870s-80s especially. ... You make a good point about Chile. They did go to Frisco too ... This video is a response to Mechanicy Shanty "Stara Swansea Town raz jeszcze" ...
   www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVY2yY7B6o - Cached

   
   

   Welsh Chilean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   The Welsh did not settle in Chile. Generally were identified with the other ...
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Chilean - Cached - Similar