Dorothy McCrea, a Sancta Barbara Award winner, has died. She was 91.
Born Dorothy Dowsett in 1905 near the Witwatersrand gold mine in South Africa, she emigrated to Timmins, Ont., with her family in 1915. Her father, C.W. Dowsett, worked for Dome Mines, after which time the family relocated to Nevada before returning to Canada.
In the 1920s, the Dowsetts returned to Africa, where Dorothy married James McCrea in 1929. The couple returned to Timmins a short while later only to relocate to Bourlamaque, Que., where James helped launch the Sigma gold mine.
In 1944, the couple moved to Toronto, where James was again employed by Dome Mines.
McCrea was a recipient of the Sancta Barbara Award, which is presented by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum in recognition of the role played by women in the development of Canadian mining communities.
McCrea was also a member of the Toronto chapter of the Women’s Association of the Mining Industry of Canada.
She is predeceased by her husband and survived by daughters Elizabeth and Dorothy and sons Charles and Bailey.
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