MEMOIRS OF A MINER. by Hellens, Alexander Daniel - 1989
by Hellens, Alexander Daniel
MEMOIRS OF A MINER.
by Hellens, Alexander Daniel
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- Hardcover
- Signed
Toronto: Lifestories, 1989. 156 pp, large 8vo (9 1/8" H), medium brown cloth with silver lettering on spine and front board, silver border and motif on front board. B&w photographs. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE TO A FRIEND WHO IS MENTIONED AND PICTURED IN THE BOOK. Reminiscences of growing up in Northern Ontario and a career in mining. Contents: The Early Years; School Days; Becoming a Working Stiff; My Years at Michigan Tech; A Mining Engineer - At Last!; In the Service of King George VI; The Post-war Years; Discovery of the Cobalt Lode Mine; Birth of a Mining Company; Setting Up Shop in Toronto; Arctic Diaries; Reflections. Tiny light stain in margin of pages 32 & 33, small area of waviness at fore-edge of approx, pages 43 to 54. . Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket - (as issued).
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- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition No Jacket - (as issued)
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Lifestories
- Place of Publication Toronto
- Date Published 1989
- Keywords Miners, Mining, Cobalt, Northern Ontario, Personal reminiscences, Michigan Tech, Lode Mine, Arctic, Kerr Lake, Childhood, Family life, Arntfield, Kirkland Lake, Noranda, Petawawa, World War II, Second, Haileybury, Prospecting, Venezuela, Baffin Island, Bi