FLYING HOUSEMAID
CANADIAN MINING CAMPS [from our own correspondent] VANCOUVER, May 20. In a new, booming northern mining camp, astride the border of Alberta, Saskatchewan and the North-west Territories, and fittingly named Goldfields, a girl of 17 years earns a lucrative living as a domestic servant. She is May Jean Rice, of Grande Prairie, Peace River. The only housemaid for hundreds ot miles around she Bpends each Monday washinc, scrubbing floors and cleaning the miners' cabins in Goldfields. On Tuesday she boards an aeroplane for Warren Camp, on Neilly Lake, 35 miles distant. She returns to her base on Wednesday. For the remainder of the ? week she responds to calls for domestic help at mining camps in the Goldfields sector, which has attracted the largest number of prospectorß of re* cently-discovered field*.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22449, 19 June 1936, Page 6
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