He was born in Europe in 1909 and immigrated to Canada in the 1920s. He served in the Canadian Armed Forces during WWII and came to the trench to try his hand at trapping. British Columbia Forest Service approached him during the late 1950’s to survey part of the region.
The location of his original cabin is Lat. 55 degrees 41′, 4.92″ and Long. 123 degrees, 37′, 18.84″.