Kate Rice (December 22, 1882 – January 3, 1963) was a Canadian prospector, adventurer, and writer from Ontario who homesteaded, prospected and mined in northern Manitoba. She garnered widespread attention for her adventurous life, brilliant mind, statuesque beauty, and for succeeding in the mineral industry, which very few women were engaged with at the time. Early life and family Kathleen Creighton Starr Rice was born in 1882 to Henry Lincoln Rice (1857 - 1933) and Charlotte "Lottie" Carter Rice (1862-1941), an upper-middle-class family in St. Marys, Ontario. Her father struggled with the changing business climate as a grain merchant who had inherited full shares in Carter Milling Co. after the death of his father-in-law, founder George Carter (1826-1899), who was a native of Tipperary, Ireland. Her paternal grandfather, Rev. Dr. Samuel Dwight Rice (1815 - 1884), was a progressive Methodist Minister who had founded a college for women in Hamilton. H.L. Rice taught his daughter to canoe and to camp along the St. Mary's River, at the age of six, regaled her with tales of Daniel Boone, and imparted a life-long taste for adventure and the outdoors. Education and career 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 a position as a Professor of Mathematics at Albert College, in Belleville, Ontario, then taught in Yorkton, Saskatchewan during 1911 and 1912. She there began to explore the Canadian Rockies, and took up mountaineering, mainly in the Cascade Mountains. This became her passion, and she later joined the Alpine Club Of Canada. At the age of 29, Rice decided she wanted to homestead, and to participate in the opening of Canada's "new frontier" in the North. Since, until 1929, women were not considered legal persons in Canada, and so were prevented from owning property or holding legal title to homesteads, Rice enlisted her brother, Lincoln, to purchase for her, in his name, north of The Pas, Manitoba. Rice began to farm in 1913. Prospecting Soon after Rice moved to The Pas, there was word of gold being discovered north on Beaver Lake. Rice began studying prospecting and read everything she found on geology. She befriended local Cree, learned their language, and hunted and trap animals. In 1914, Rice borrowed money, a