OBITUARY — Cuthbert Dixon

Noted mining broker Cuthbert (Cuffy) Batten Dixon died of a heart attack on Nov. 22. He was 83.

Born and educated in Cobalt, Ont., Dixon started as an underground miner at the Wright-Hargraves gold mine in Kirkland, Ont., in 1928-29. Then he became a stock broker, also in Kirkland, for 21 years before he moved to Toronto and continued to promote gold stocks, largely of his hometown.

In the 1970s, he raised money for Canadian junior companies involved in offshore projects in Australia and New Zealand.

With Toronto-based brokerage firm Midland Doherty for 46 years, Dixon was regarded as a leading salesman of mining stocks on Bay Street by the 1980s. Lytton Minerals, Windfall Oil and Gas and Duncan Gold were among the companies in which he was involved.