POLICE CHIEF JOHN BLACKSTOCK

180 pounds, all muscle, distributed
over his six-foot-two-inch frame.

He kept himself in shape, and was
able to go hunting all his day off and
work. all night, without turning a
hair. In recent years (he is 47 now)
he has added something to his girth
and weight, but he can still sling a
quarter of a moose, weighing 130 or
140 pounds over his back and carry
it several miles.

Liking For Sport

Last year he cultivated two gardens
at once—at his home on Hillside
Avenue and at an allotment on Vista
Heights. He got some help from his
16-year-old daughter, Margaret.

Besides hunting, fishing and gar-
dening, he has in the past spent much
time breeding pigeons and canaries.
The pigeons were the racing kind.
He gave them up because it seemed
that he was always being called to
duty just at the time his pigeons
were coming home and he arrived
too late to clock in a winner.

His current hobby is raising love-
birds. At present he has five pairs.
The sight of a two-ounce budgerigar

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TWENTY-SIXTH EDITION

perched on a_ burly police chief’s
finger is a study in the “tough but
oh so gentle” theme.

He was born August 12, 1907, at a
house near Mount Tolmie, the eldest
of five. His father, James Blackstock,
a Boer War veteran, was farming at
that time, but he subsequently moved
into town, to a place on Howard
Street, and worked for the city.

John Blackstock delivered milk
night and morning, and handled two
paper routes—one full-time and the
other as a relief carrier. Often he
had the milk route and the two
paper routes to do on the same day.

His First Job

His first job, after leaving school,
was picking tomatoes in a green-
house. Then he was apprenticed as a
plumber to the firm of Hayward &
Dodds. A man who worked with him
then says he was bright and quick to
assimilate what he was told, but “too
big to make a plumber.” He just
couldn’t fit himself under a sink.

Furthermore, trade slackened off,
and plumbers were getting only odd
days’ work. John Blackstock left to

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