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orn in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Dec. 11, 1889, Coulson Norman Mitchell graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1912 with a degree in engineering before embarking on a bicycle tour of England and Scotland with his father. On his return to Canada the young man accepted a position as a construction engineer and in 1913 helped right a railside grain