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Lady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain
Lady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain in Bloomington, MN
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Lady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain is a story of pioneering adventure, early days of Northwestern Ontario mining and forestry, wilderness homesteading southwest of today's Thunder Bay, colourful characters, frontier railroading about a British-born trailblazer breaking into a tough business world long before the doors were open to women.
In the early 1900s, after the Silver Mountain Mines closed, besides running a general store and railway station, she owned/operated a sawmill and became known as "Lady Lumberjack". Lady Lumberjack tells of old-time bush logging and milling, contests for business and the struggle to be paid, the discouragements of intensely cold weather and a disastrous fire, the fun of a mixed mining and forest industry region, where Dorothea Mitchell was one of the "boys" - but still very much a lady.
Dorothea Mitchell was also the first unmarried woman in Ontario to be granted a homestead, later scripted and acted in Canada's first feature film, A Race for Ties, and was 90-years-old when her first book, the best-selling Lady Lumberjack, was published.
Lady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain is her original book published in 1967. Out-of-print for many years, it is now reissued as part of the renaissance of the historic Silver Mountain and area.
Lady Lumberjack by Dorothea Mitchel
In the early 1900s, after the Silver Mountain Mines closed, besides running a general store and railway station, she owned/operated a sawmill and became known as "Lady Lumberjack". Lady Lumberjack tells of old-time bush logging and milling, contests for business and the struggle to be paid, the discouragements of intensely cold weather and a disastrous fire, the fun of a mixed mining and forest industry region, where Dorothea Mitchell was one of the "boys" - but still very much a lady.
Dorothea Mitchell was also the first unmarried woman in Ontario to be granted a homestead, later scripted and acted in Canada's first feature film, A Race for Ties, and was 90-years-old when her first book, the best-selling Lady Lumberjack, was published.
Lady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain is her original book published in 1967. Out-of-print for many years, it is now reissued as part of the renaissance of the historic Silver Mountain and area.
Lady Lumberjack by Dorothea Mitchel
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