Thureday, May 6, 1954.

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

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ALEXIS CREEK

Weather Records
Broken In Chilcotin

The weather seems to be changing
for the better and we hope it will
soon be spring. Records were broken
last week when the thermometer
dropped down around zero. Big Creek
reported 2° below with Chilco Lake
and Redstone recording 8° below.
This is the first time this has hap-
pened in at least 45 years,

Williams Lake were week-end guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs, K
Walmsley.

MRS. P. VERNON and children
are visiting at the K. C, Ranch.

REY. B. A. RESKER, well known
throughout the Chilcotin, held church
service here Sunday. May 2

MRS. R. LEX returned home after
spending the winter in Vancouver.

MR. and MRS. C. ODINE and Jo-
Anne visited Thursday at the P. J.
Yells home.

BRUCE MacKILL celebrated his
4th birthday Wednesday. About 12
little people, chaperoned by their
methers helped him celebrate at an

25 YEARS OF SERVICE TO PEOPLE ENDS

Former Game Warden’s Career
Centred Around Love of Wildlife

Twenty-five years ago a French-Canadian predator animal
hunter whose knowledge of the outdoors was as vast as his
English was limited, joined the B.C. Game Department as game
warden for the Kamloops area. April 4th of this year the
connection was severed, and Leo Jobin, who during the
intervening years had earned a reputation as one of the
department’s most respected and also most colorful custodians
of the Game Act, officially went into retirement.

MR. and MRS. M. ‘Mortenson of| afternoon tea party.

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Mr. Jobin was born in 1889 in the
northern part of Quebec. In 1914 his
parents moved to a homestead near
the Aricana River, 120 miles from its
mouth in the frigid James Bay.

A year later Leo left home to get
into the war on the other side of the
ocean, travelling first to England and
then to France, where he joined an
international volunteer regiment
fighting under the colours of the
French Foreign Legion. The follow-
ing year, during the Battle of the
Somme, Leo was awarded the Crois
De Geurre with gold star. highest
decoration for valor in the field.

A German pill-box had been hold-
ing back a regiment of the Legion for
days, the heavy machine guns taking
deadly toll as attack after attack was
undertaken. Sgt. Jobin was given the
final assignment and with 33 men
launched his assault. Only a handful
reached to within striking distance of
the pill-box, a scant 15-feet away,
protected by a small knoll. Unable to
reach the attackers with machine gun
fire, the defenders lobbed a grenade
into Jobin's position. The sergeant’s
split second reaction was to lob the
grenade back again and it went
through one of the loopholes in the
concrete emplacement to explode and
wipe out the crew.

CHILLY MATERNITY WARD

In 1918 Leo married a French girl
and returned to his home in the hin-
terland. Two years later he joined a
government wildlife survey party.
taking his wife with him. It was while
they were on this survey in 1922 that
a son was born to the Jobins. It hail
been planned to send Mrs. Jobin “out-
side” six weeks before the event, but
the weather closed in and the six
weeks turned into a battle of survival
for all members of the party. Leo,
junior, was born in a rough shelter
2 ered by, a tent. The thermometer

registered 60 below anid the only ga
ere dant at the birth was the baby’s
father.
| Probably this incident had much to
‘do with Leo’s decision to come to
| British Columbia, where the sun al-
ways shone, according to the pam-
phlets distributed in the north coun-
try. He arrived in June, 1924 at

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Leo Jobin

Kamloops, where he found his great-
est obstacle was the fact that he
couldn’t speak a word of English. He
finally secured work on the railroad
and three years later was engaged by
the Interior Wool Growers Assovia~
tion and the Beef Growers’ Associa-
tion to hunt coyotes, wolves and other
predator animals.

JOINS DEPARTMENT

His reputation as a predator animal
hunter soon spread and in 1929
Attorney-General Harry Pooley in-
structed the late Game Commissioner
Bryan Williams to interview Jobin
and if possible take him on staff as
a game warden for Kamloops detach-
ment. He was transferred from there
to Merritt in 1932 and proceeded to
clean that area of Game Act violators.

His territory included Princeton
and it was here that he met up with
one of the most unusual game cases
of shis career. A local resident had
Mpéén making his living'selling garlic
sausages to the mining camps, which
did not appear unusual on the sur-
face, but the main ingredient of the
sausages was deer meat and when the
game warden finally caught up with
him he had 27 deer careasses and 400
pounds of sausage in his possession.
His sausage “factory” was located in
ithe basement of the building housing
the Provincial Police offices.

In 1934 Leo was transferred to the
Cariboo and began his long associ
tion with the people of this district.
It wasn’t particularly a happy one at
first. The new game warden found
that no one paid much attention to
the Game Act and every time he would
pring a violator up in court for killing
game out of season, the act was fol-
lowed by the circulation of-a petition
that would find its way to the Game
Department, recommending the dis-
missal of the warden. This situation
lasted about three years, Leo recalls,
until the residents came to realize
that the law designed for game con-
servation was here to stay.

District residents since those days
have taken a pride in their strict
game warden. Caught in a game act
violation. without any excuse, even

Leo’s closest friends would expect no
“breaks.” His ability to seem to be
in two or three places at once has
made him almost a legendary figure
to lawbreakers.

In 1943 Leo suffered a great per-
sonal tragedy with the death of his
only son. Leo, junior, had joined the
Rocky Mountain Rangers in 1940 at
Kamloops, transferring later to the
Loyal Edmontons. He was one of the
first Canadian soldiers killed in the
assault on Sicily.

CRIMINAL SES

Looking back over the years, Leo
remembers several of the highlights
of his career concerned criminal, not
game, cases.

In. 1934 the Nicola Valley was
shocked by the brutal slaying of Con-
stable P. Carr of the’ Provinctal
Police and Constable F. H. Gisborne
of the Indian Affairs Department.
Police reinforcements were rushed to
Merritt to handle the manhunt, un-
der the supervision of Inspector J.
Shirras. Credit for breaking the case
went to Game Warden Jobin, whose
investigation resulted in the arrest
of an Indian who told the story of
the murder. Four Indian brothers
were charged with the slaying.

The second outstanding case Mr.
Jobin recalls concerned an armed
robbery at Bridge River in 1938.
Called from Williams Lake fo assist
in tracking the two men responsible,
Leo was successful in tracing the
exact route of the men, who were
surprised at an encampment near
Pavilion.

Although he has spent 25 years in
game enforcement work, it is in
another field that Mr. Jobin has gain-
ed international recognition. A skill
ed photographer and collector of
wildife specimens, he has a ‘collec-
tion of over 2000 photographs and
2000 specimens. He has also found
time to write articles on wildlife for
national magazines. His photographs
have heen exhibited in the Vancouver
Art Gallery, the Parliament Build-
ings, Victoria, and at many other
exhibition points in Canada and the
United States. Latterly he has been
conducting a series of lectures to
school children in the Cariboo. In
his work of photographing and col-
lecting he is assisted by Mrs. Jobin,
his second wife, whom he married in
1942.

He is an active member of the
Cooper Ornithological Club, an or-
ganization for the advancement of
science on birds in general, and of
the Murrelet, a magazine under the
management of the State College of

Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.
He is also an active member of the
Smithsonian Institute.

Now that he has more time to de-
yote to his wildlife work, Mr. Jobin
plans to go on extensive field trips,
particularly in the north country.
But headquarters will remain at Wil-
liams Lake. Mr. Jobin has been in
the Cariboo now\for 20 years and
Mrs. Jobin for 34 years, long enough
to be confirmed Caribooites.

Lone Butte News

LAST SATURDAY evening the
PTA held a whist drive in the Lone
Butte school with six tables in play.
Mrs. T. Mathews won ladies first with
126 points. Margaret E. Willard on
consolation. Jonas Nordgren won
gents high with 119 points. Mrs. Len
Couckell, playing as a gentleman,
won gents low. Refreshments were
served and a silver collection was
taken which amounted to $12.

THURSDAY, April 29th weather
report: Low, 3° below zero; hi
30° above.

SCOTTY the Bluebird, well known
Cariboo character, passed through
Lone Butte on April 29th on his way
north for the summer.

MRS. ALICE BURNS spent a fe
days at the Lone Butte Hotel. Mrs.
Burns has now gone to Fort St.
James to visit her parents.

THE NEW housekeeper at the
Outpost Hospital is Mrs. C. E. Wil-
lard of Vancouver.

ON SATURDAY, May Ist, there
was an Auction Sale in the Commun-
ity Hall. This is something, new for
Lone Butte. The idea being that if
you have something to dispose of to
bring it to the sale; someone else
might want it. The auctioneer was
Jeb Uhlman, T. Matthews, assisting.

IT MUST BE SPRING this time.
The swallows have arrived in Lone
Butte.

MRS. JEB UHLMAN, principal of
the Lone Butte school, has assured
this reporter that the teachers are
definitely willing to train. the chil-
dren for the May Queen celebrations.

CHAS. WIDLUND, section fore-
man, now has a crew of six men.

THE CHAS. WIDLUNDS made a
trip to Kamloops on Monday.

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