Ethel (Monty) Hall, a pioneer in Canada’s uranium
districts, has died. She was 80.
A sergeant in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1941 to 1945, Mrs. Hall joined Technical Mine Consultants in 1949. The firm, based in Beaver Lodge, Sask., was the holding company of prospectors Franc Joubin and Joseph Hirshhorn.
She later worked at uranium projects in the Elliot Lake and Blind River districts of northern Ontario.
In the early 1970s, Mrs. Hall, together with her husband, Howard, managed the Vancouver office of Rio Canadian Exploration. They later moved to the Toronto offices of Rio Tinto, where Mrs. Hall was employed as head librarian, a job she held until her retirement in the mid-1980s.
She was a member of the Women’s Association of the Mining Industry of Canada, and received, in 1980, an honorary life membership from the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada.
Mrs. Hall is survived by her grandchildren, Philip and Holly, and two great-grandchildren.
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