HomeMy WebLinkAbout2194Black and white photograph and biographical sketch of Jack Hambleton.
Born in England, Jack Hambleton moved to Canada at an early age—one year, to be exact.
When he was five years old he had his first experience as a fisherman, catching a three-foot
eel that scared him out of a year's growth. Four years later he became a trapper, running a
muskrat trapline and receiving ten cents a skin for his catch. (They've sold as high as three
dollars since.) Later phases of his career, before he got into journalism, included working on
the docks at Sarnia, boxing, and operating a teletype.
Now on the staff of the Toronto Globe and Mail, Mr. Hambleton has been a writer for
practically all his adult life. Though his reporting has covered everything from murder to the
Royal Tour, his specialty and first love is the outdoors. He ranks among the top experts on
hunting and fishing in Northern Ontario, and for years wrote a column on the outdoors for the
Toronto Star, and later for the Globe and Mail.
In 1934 Mr. Hambleton founded the Ontario Travel and Publicity Bureau, and for four years
was its publicity director. At a later period he became a public-relations counsellor and
freelance writer, turning out magazine and newspaper articles and his popular books for
boys. But newspaper work is in his blood, and after both these ventures he returned to it.
He is a deputy game warden, a deputy forest ranger, and the holder of a guide's license for
Ontario.