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The Women in Mining Toronto Networking Branch (WIM) is a lively and informal group of more than 400 women who work across the spectrum of the mining industry. They meet monthly from September to June, usually over lunch, sometimes with a speaker, sometimes just to chat on a selected topic.

WIM can trace its origins to the late 1960s when females in the industry were such a rarity that the handful of women geologists active then were deemed worthy of an article in The Northern Miner. The editor must have liked the article, for he told the reporter who penned it (also a geologist) to take her interviewees out for lunch. The four who sat down on that occasion enjoyed themselves so much, they decided to lunch again. And they did, every now and then, and those in attendance grew in number, eventually organizing themselves to the extent of having a mailing list and regular gatherings. The rest, as they say, is history.

Sadly, two of the four who sat down for that original lunch have since succumbed to cancer, so it is particularly appropriate that WIM’s first collective fund-raising effort was the Weekend to End Breast Cancer walk.

Our Co-Chairs are Kathy Chapman and Lorraine Godwin. Please feel free to drop them an email with any questions or use the form on our contact page.