Empire in Port Arthur. In 1939, at the age of 63, Mitchell enlisted in the Red Cross Society and worked in the transportation corps and the office of Voluntary Registration of Canadian women at the onset of World War II. She continued working for the military, helping the dependents of servicemen as well as aiding British orphans until she retired to the West Coast in 1941, settling down in Victoria, British Columbia. In Victoria, she became involved once again in amateur filmmaking, joining the Victoria Amateur Movie Club, as well as joining the Victoria Branch of the Canadian Authors Association as secretary. In 1968, at the age of 91, Mitchell published a book of autobiographical short stories, entitled Lady Lumberjack. Mitchell died in Victoria in 1976, at the age of 99. Legacy The Silver Mountain and Area Historical Society is working towards designating a portion of Highway 593 as the Dorothea Mitchell Memorial Highway. In her review of Lady Lumberjack, the annotated collection of works edited by Michel S. Beaulieu and Ronald N. Harpelle, Cheryl Desroches states of Mitchell: "If she found living in the woods at times inconvenient, she would have laughed at the thought of herself as soft. Lady Lumberjack is laden with evidence of Mitchell's ability to defy notions, typical of the era, of appropriate female behaviour. [...] Mitchell's experiences fostered a strong belief that women were capable of anything men could do." The anthology "provide[s] a much-needed first-hand female perspective of the pioneer experience. Because she wrote about her extraordinary life in such matter-of-fact terms, however, her contributions to the feminist movement (and to literature more generally) has been overlooked in the broader historical record." Desroches praises Beaulieu and Harpelle's efforts to include Mitchell with the likes of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill as an early advocate of women's rights. Filmography A Race for Ties, May 1929 Sleep Inn Beauty, July 1929 The Fatal Flower, May 1930 Bibliography Beaulieu, Michael S. and Harpelle, Ronald N. The Lady Lumberjack: An Annotated Collection of Dorothea Mitchell's Writings. Thunder Bay, ON: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2005. Forster, Merna and Payette, Julie. 100 More Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces. Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2011. Morris, Peter. Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939. Montreal, QC, and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1978. Tepperman, Charles. Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking. Sacramento, CA: University of