Lady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain - Paperback
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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
Lady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain - Paperback
$13.50
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$13.50
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by Dorothea Mitchell (Author)
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".
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
Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: March 06, 2023