Fonds F1574 - Jack Hambleton fonds

Jack Hambleton was born in 1900 in Staffordshire, England. His family came to Canada in 1902 and lived in Valleyfield, Quebec until 1910. Jack left school at thirteen years of age and worked as a machinist in London, Ontario and Detroit. He then joined the U.S. Expeditionary Force which was sent to Siberia during the Russian Revolution. He returned to Canada in 1921 and shortly after became a reporter for the Canadian Press. In 1934, he became Director of the Ontario Travel and Publicity Bureau ,but six years later returned to newspaper work covering politics and writing an outdoors column for the Toronto Daily Star. As an ardent conservationist his greatest love was always with the outdoors and throughout his life he was a member of a number of fishing and hunting associations, a deputy game warden, a deputy forest ranger and held a hunter's guide license for Ontario.In the latter part of his life Mr. Hambleton was a freelance writer and produced eleven books for juveniles, the last of which was recognized by the New York Times as one of the 100 best books for juveniles in 1960. Mr. Hambleton died in 1961.