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Kate Rice (December 22, 1882 – January 3, 1963) was a Canadian prospector, adventurer, and writer who lived in northern Manitoba. She garnered widespread attention for her colorful life and for succeeding in the mineral industry which had few if any women at the time. ==Early life== Kathleen Creighton Starr Rice was born in 1882 to Henry Lincoln Rice and Charlotte Carter Rice, an upper-middle-class family in St. Marys, Ontario who claimed to be related to President Abraham Lincoln. Her grandfather was a progressive Methodist Minister who founded a college for women in Hamilton. Her father taught her to canoe and camp along the St. Mary’s River at the age of six, regaled her with tales of Daniel Boone〔 and gave her a lifelong taste for adventure and the outdoors.〔 Rice attended the University of Toronto, winning the Edward Blake Scholarship twice. She studied Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, graduating in 1906. In 1908, Rice moved west to Tees, Alberta where she taught at a summer school. She then took up a position at Professor of Mathematics at Albert College in Belleville, Ontario and taught in Yorkton, Saskatchewan in 1911 and 1912.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wim-manitoba.ca/katepage.html )〕 During this period she began to spend time in the Canadian Rockies, and took up mountaineering, particularly in the Cascade Mountain region. This became a passion and she later joined the Alpine Club Of Canada.〔 At the age of 29, Rice decided she wanted to homestead and participate in the opening of Canada’s “new frontier” in the north. At that time, women were prevented from holding legal title of homesteads, so Rice used her brother Lincoln’s name to purchase land north of The Pas, Manitoba,〔 and in 1913 she began to farm. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kate Rice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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