The Wellington-Extension Medical Accident and Burial Fund may have been established as early as the 1870s but was not incorporated until September 1905. Employees of the Wellington Collieries (and later Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd.) paid a set amount each month into this fund to pay for doctor and hospital visits, time off work due to sickness or injury and funeral costs. The fund committee met regularly to consider and pay claims and to discuss supplies, complaints about doctors, contributions to the Ladysmith Hospital and other issues related to the administration of the fund. The date of dissolution of the fund is unknown.