Author: Alice V. Payne. Published by Crossfield Publishing, Okotoks, Alberta, 2000, 1st Edition. SIGNED and dedicated by the Author. Printed in Canada by McAra Printing. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with beautiful fold-out French Covers. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6.5 inch, 214 pages including index.
QUIN KOLA, Tom Payne's Search for Gold, by Alice V. Payne, is the real-life account of one of Canada’s greatest prospectors, colourful adventurer,and mine finder in the first half of the 1900's, written by his daughter.
Despised by corporations, but grudgingly admired by those who sought an honest living in Canada’s vast and rugged territories, Tom Payne was a larger-than-life character whoes incredible journey comes to vivid life within these pages. He eventually formed Quin Kola Mines, and made one of the greatest mining deals in Canadian history with Cominco.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alice Virginia Payne is a Canadian geologist. She became the first female president of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists in 1992. The University of Calgary granted her an honorary doctorate, and she also was honored by the Order of Canada.
