Sudbury s stories are filled with fascinating characters such as Kit Coleman, who at the turn of the last century, was one of Canada s most famous journalists.
Kathleen Blake Watkins Kit Coleman lived in Copper Cliff from 1899 to 1901. Starting in January 2001, Northern Life published a serialized historical novel about the pioneering Canadian journalist.
Every Sunday for almost two years, Mick Lowe, who had a long association with the newspaper, contributed a chapter from Kit: A Novel of 1901.
Coleman s story is an interesting one. The fiery redhead who spoke with an Irish lilt was a remarkable woman, a journalist and war correspondent at a time when most married women with children did not work.
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VIP visitors include pioneering female journalist Kit Coleman, writer Ernest Hemingway, physicist Stephen Hawking and actor Ethan Hawke
Dec 17, 2020 12:00 PM By: Vicki Gilhula
In the fall of 1982, the city s unemployment rate was close to 30 per cent. Macleans contributor Ian Austen visited Sudbury to cover its economic woes for the national news magazine. Sudbury residents will get a giggle out of what he wrote. While it might seem strange to southern outsiders, who often assume life in Sudbury is the next best thing to a stint in prison, many of the laid-off workers maintain a striking loyalty to their city.