Book celebrates 100 years of Kirkland Lake: Gold for a Mad Miner shares stories of local legends.

• Date: 01 October 2019
• Author: Kelly, Lindsay

Mayors and reeves, renowned strongmen and multi-million-dollar lottery winners are among the cast of colourful characters in a newly published book celebrating the centennial of the Town of Kirkland Lake.

Authored by Bill Glover, Gold for a Mad Miner is an anthology of 18 stories celebrating the town's history, quirks and legends, printed in time to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the town's founding in 1919.

Glover, who was born and raised in Kirkland Lake, said he's always been interested in story--I telling, and this marks the fifth book he's written.

Though he's retired now, he spent close to six decades in the mining industry, first working in Sudbury at Frood and Stobie mines, before establishing his own consultancy firm, which took him to Asia, Europe, South America, the U.S. and beyond.

"I always found the humour in life, and I always tried...