W o mitchell mark abley essay

Here Mitchell attended St. Petersburg High School whose population numbered 1,000 students, a new experience for a boy from a small prairie town of 6,000 people.

A first son Jack was born in December of that year; William Ormond was born on March 13, 1914, and two younger brothers, Robert and Richard, in the succeeding four years.

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.

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.