W o mitchell s gingell essay

In 1903, Ormond Skinner Mitchell left his flourishing pharmacy in Hamilton, Ontario, and came West to the little town of Weyburn to open a drug store. Here he met Margaret McMurray who had emigrated several years before from Huron County, Ontario, and the couple were married in January of 1907.

A Winnipeg doctor advised a warmer climate and Mrs. Mitchell took the three younger boys first to Long Beach, California, in the Winter of 1928/29 and then to St. Petersburg, Florida, for the following three years.

W. O. Mitchell. William Ormond Mitchell, PC, OC better known as W. O. Mitchell (March 13, 1914 – February 25, 1998) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster. His "best-loved" novel is Who Has Seen the Wind (1947), which portrays life on the Canadian Prairies and sold almost a million copies in Canada.

In 1980 Robert Duncan's film profile "W.O. Mitchell: Novelist in Hiding" was screened by the National Film Board; it has been rerun on CBC television. The publication in 1982 by Macmillan's of Dramatic W.O. Mitchell makes available to his readers five of the plays dating back to The Devil's Instrument in 1949.