Home → Timeline → this article

Sooke Hunter Escapes Fog Trap

Daily Colonist1 November 1960p. 29Before 1979

“Sooke Hunter Escapes Fog Trap”, Daily Colonist, p. 29, 1 November 1960 licence unknown
Read this article on the Daily Colonist site ↗

Summary

Sooke hunter Leonard Jones, who became lost near Leechtown on the Sunday when trapped by fog, walked out of the woods safely early the previous day. Jones and Ron McCauley, also of Sooke, had separated on the Sunday morning with an agreement to meet later; when Jones did not return by 4 p.m. a five-hour search began. Jones had shot a deer and was cleaning it when fog closed in; an experienced hunter, he settled down to wait, and walked out in the morning.

Written from the article text only. Where the scan is hard to read, the summary was taken from the page image rather than the OCR.

Details

Headline	“Sooke Hunter Escapes Fog Trap”
Publication	Daily Colonist
Date	1 November 1960
Page	29
Era	Before 1979
Document type	news report
Original article	Internet Archive — the Daily Colonist, November 1, 1960, page 29 ↗
Source	britishcolonist.ca (University of Victoria)
Accessed	2026-08-04
Licensing	licence unknown
Record confidence	probable

Archivist's note

One of the small, clean pre-formation search accounts: a five-hour search organized on the same day the hunter failed to appear. As with the other 1950s and 1960s items, no search organization is named.

The clipping

Scan of Daily Colonist, page 29, 1 November 1960 — the article “Sooke Hunter Escapes Fog Trap” — The article as printed. source scan is already a single-article clipping (33 words on the page), so the full scan is the article - no crop needed.

Read the original online

Internet Archive — the Daily Colonist, November 1, 1960, page 29 ↗ free to read
Free to read. Digitized by the Internet Archive; britishcolonist.ca (University of Victoria) indexes the same scans.
https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist19601101#page/n28/mode/1up

These links leave this archive and point at the publisher. They may change or disappear — the scan held here is the archival copy.

Files

Full page scan (PDF)

Archive notes

Shared page. The item is a short brief on a page otherwise given over to advertising and unrelated briefs; the summary describes only this item. OCR quality 0.623. Leonard Jones's age is given as a two-digit figure the OCR renders as '3M' and it has not been resolved; it is omitted rather than guessed. PROVENANCE GAP: this PDF is not listed in TABLE_OF_CONTENTS.md, so source_database, source_url and date_accessed are recorded as unknown. Provenance resolved 2026-08-04: located via britishcolonist.ca's search index (solrcurl), which points to the underlying scan on the Internet Archive (dailycolonist collection); the source_url above is that specific page. Confirmed by matching distinctive article text (not just date/page) against the OCR text at that Internet Archive item.

Record id 1960-11-01-daily-colonist-p29-sooke-hunter-fog-trap. Original file in the project archive: 06_pre_formation/1960-11-01_daily_colonist_p29_sooke_hunter_fog_trap.pdf.

Explore onward

In the timeline

1 November 1960Sooke hunter Leonard Jones, who became lost near Leechtown on the Sunday when trapped by fog, walked out of th