Early Life
Mick was born June 1, 1860 and was raised in Waterdown, Ontario, Canada, a small town west of Toronto. In the early 1880s she married James Mick with whom she had four children (one died in infancy). When James died in the late 1890s, Mick moved with her three children to Toronto where she went to work as a matron in the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women. Her position there was similar to that of a correctional officer today. In 1916, she applied for a transfer to the Toronto Municipal Jail Farm for Women in Concord. The facility was considered state of the art for its time. It put low risk female offenders to work growing fruits and vegetables and raising livestock.
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