Cobalt Revisited

Cobalt, Ont., the cradle of Canada’s mining industry, has provided the backdrop for Jessica, a novel which depicts life at the turn of the century. Jessica was a nurse among the miners, bushwhackers, aboriginals, con-men and women of dubious repute. The hospital where she worked was essentially a makeshift tent.

Born in 1937 in Kirkland Lake, Ont., author Beverley Dixon Mallette is Jessica’s granddaughter and the daughter of noted broker Cuthbert “Cuffy” Dixon, who specialized in mining stocks.

The book will be published shortly by Doug Pollard of the Highway Book Shop in Cobalt.