A 7\u002Dtime Ontario Golden Gloves champ, Pinky also dealt with the notoriety that came with being the brother of Stopwatch Gang\u0027s Paddy Mitchell.
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A devoted family man who was married to his childhood sweetheart, Evelyn, for 72 years, Mitchell helped raise three daughters while also dealing with the notoriety that came with being the brother of Paddy Mitchell, leader of the Stopwatch Gang of bank robbers. Another brother, Bobby, was also regularly in trouble with the law.Article content“He was very quick of mind and hand,” said former Ottawa Citizen city columnist Dave Brown, 85, a longtime friend and drinking companion.
They both enlisted in the RCAF the following day. Mitchell became a heavy equipment operator and was shipped to the Yukon where he drove a truck, supplying northern airfields. Mitchell would later recount the fight on the dinner circuit: “I heard he was dumb, so the plan was I’d tell him his shoelace was untied, and when he looked down, I’d pop him. Game over. But when I told him, he said, ‘Which one?’ I looked down and that’s all I remember.”
Mitchell did well enough to afford a home in Ottawa, a farm near Metcalfe and a cottage on Blue Sea Lake. Pinky Mitchell poses for a photo outside his home in Ottawa Friday Feb 20, 2015. Pinky once lived in the Yukon in 1947 when the record for the coldest day in North America was recorded at minus 81.3 celsius. Tony Caldwell/Ottawa Sun/QMI AgencyMitchell’s brother was more often in the news. In 1974, Paddy Mitchell and two confederates in the Stopwatch Gang stole $4 million worth of gold bars from an Air Canada freight terminal at the Ottawa airport.
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