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- Birth nameTaylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow
- Taylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow became interested in performing by her mid teens and after graduating from the Etobicoke School of the Arts with a major in musical theatre deciding on a career as a singer and songwriter taking the surname Mitchell as her stage name. Mitchell had released a four track EP in 2007, she independently released an album titled For Your Consideration in March 2009. In June 2009, she was invited to perform in the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Reaction from the roots music community and radio stations was positive, and she began working on new material. A contributor to the album, Justin Rutledge, later described Mitchell as having written beyond her years: "She didn't provide answers, as so many of her age try to do. There was no preciousness about her. Instead she asked questions." To promote the album she went on a solo concert tour of the eastern coast Maritimes, beginning on October 23, 2009. A few days before her ultimate fate, Mitchell was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award as Young Performer of the Year. Her final performance was in Lucasville, near Halifax. There were two days before her scheduled concert in Sydney. In order to avoid the busy traffic of her tour, she decided to hike on the Skyline Trail at Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Unfortunately, eastern coyotes attacked her while hiking on that trail. Mitchell was bitten over most of her body, with particularly serious wounds to one of her legs and head. She was taken to Sacred Heart Community Health Centre in Cheticamp, and then airlifted to Halifax's Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in critical condition from the extreme blood loss she had suffered. She died just after midnight with her mother at her side. Mitchell's interment was at Greenwood Cemetery in Owen Sound, Ontario.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Her music influences were Neil Young, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, Gordon Lightfoot, Joan Baez, Van Morrison, and The Eagles.
- Taylor's incident turned out to be the first fatal coyote attack on both an adult and a Canadian. Twenty-eight years earlier, a three-year-old girl in Glendale, California named Kelly Keen was the first fatal coyote attack on both a child and an American. Only one urban coyote attacked Kelly in the driveway of her mother and father's home. Two eastern coyotes attacked Taylor while she was hiking by herself between an access road and the Skyline Trail at Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
- An American middle-aged hiking couple passed Taylor from the opposite direction on the Skyline Trail. Twenty minutes later, the couple spotted two eastern coyotes on the access road and photographed them. Six minutes after the photography when the couple entered the car park, the same two coyotes walked into Taylor. She was returning to her car, but stopped and looked back on the access road which led to the Skyline Trail. Taylor turned her head at that moment. The two coyotes were standing behind her, but she turned her head back and fled from them. That incident was when the American couple heard her screams, so they called for help in the car park's telephone box.
- Cape Breton Highlands National Park's wildlife experts and managers thought the predatory animal suspect of Taylor's incident was an American black bear at first, but they soon found out it was a pair of eastern coyotes.
- Four months prior to Taylor's tragic incident, an urban coyote bit a two-year-old girl on a playground at Central Elementary School in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The girl's parents took her to a hospital for rabies treatment.
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