FAPE

Abstract

Jim passed away peacefully at home,with family by his bedside, on September13, 2009. Jim was born in Revelstokewhere his family worked a farmin the Big Eddy area. In wintershe helped run the family trapline up the Columbia River. Itwas during those years the seeds were planted for his twolifetime sporting passions, bird hunting and fishing.After schooling, Jim worked on the CPR trains untilCanada's involvement in WW II. He enlisted, took pilot trainingand was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in late 1943.He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for pilotinghis heavily damaged bomber back to safety in Englandafter being attacked by a German fighter. A few monthslater his plane was shot down over Berlin. Jim was capturedand spent the remaining months of the war as a POW.After the war Jim enrolled in forestry at UBC, lived in FortCamp on the UBC site, married and graduated with the class of’50. He worked in logging camps on Vancouver Island and theInterior, before moving to a job in Alberta. In 1956, he returnedto Vancouver to work for the federal Western Forest Products Lab(now Forintek), received his RPF in 1964 and retired in 1984.After retirement, he volunteered at the SeymourDemonstration Forest and he made a scholarship endowmentto UBC Forestry. Forestry was in Jim's blood, often a subject of conversationor debate, and he took great pride knowinghe was to be part of a three generation RPF family.