CRICKETER’S SON

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16772, 11 October 1928, Page 11

CRICKETER’S SON

A UNIQUE CAREER DEATH IN FAR NORTH OTTAWA Sept. 6. The career of an Anglo-Canadian explorer of unique characteristics lias come to an end it is believed by starvation in the Far North. He was Mr. 'John llornby. His body and those of two companions were found by a mounted polieman near the mouth of tho Tlielon River after lie had surveyed the country east of the Mackenzie River. Son of the famous English cricketer of that name, Air. Hornby came to Canada many years ago with a spirit of adventure allied to his career as a long-distance runner. He established a record to win a private wager by running from Calgary to Edmonton. The barren lands of the North attracted him before the war. In this almost limitless stretch of territory natives find it dill!cult to subsist by following hard on the heels of the ever-migrating caribou. Air. llornby loved this country although there was

no firewood for hundreds of miles. He knew every trick in the battle for existence- there. When news reached him that wgr had broken out lie travelled with all speed to Edmonton, over thousands of weary miles from the Arctic, and .joined up. He served with distinction until he was wounded and invalided, (lo returned to the North-west in the fall of 11)17 and wintered alone in the northern end of Great Bear Lake. He returned to England in 1923, but two veurs later saw him in the North again, and he suffered considerable hardship near Great Slave Lake, The following summer lie and Mr. A. C. Bullock, who accompanied him, reached Chesterfield Inlet hv canoe.