Journalist, sportsman.
He was one of the world’s most famous hunting writers and sportsmen, editor for Sports Afield magazine, and the hunting partner of some of the biggest names in entertainment, politics, and business.
Jimmy was born in the small town of Kent, Minnesota in August 1897. On the death of his father in 1900, he moved to Winnipeg with his mother and brother, and lived with his grandfather, Sam Cruikshank, at his Maple Leaf Hotel in Elmwood, MB. In 1910, the Robinsons moved to Morden where Jimmy spent some of the happiest days of his life. He loved to hunt on his grandfather’s ranch seven miles south of town.
After serving his adopted country in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, playing hockey and semi-professional baseball, and exploring a career as a market hunter, Jimmy joined the Amateur Trapshooting Association as a statistician in 1922, an association that he maintained for the next fifty years. In 1926, he began writing for Sports Afield magazine, with his first article about his good friend, Annie Oakley. Renowned as a hunter, fisherman and conservationist, his writing career spanned 45 years. He wrote fourteen books on shooting and hunting. Each year since 1935, his duck survey of Western Canada was awaited eagerly by hundreds of newspapers all over North America. His contributions in building Ducks Unlimited were so great that they named him an honorary trustee in 1970. Sometimes called the “Sportsman of the Century,” Jimmy is the only man inducted into five Halls of Fame: Fishing, Minnesota, Skeet, Trapshooting, and Waterfowl.
Jimmy founded his first lodge at Delta Marsh in 1935 in a farmhouse near Portage Creek, Manitoba. Its more luxurious successor, dubbed the“Sports Afield Lodge” in honor of Jimmy’s long-time employer, was built in 1958 on the east side of the marsh, south of St. Ambroise.
Contributor: Andre No (50021316)
He was one of the world’s most famous hunting writers and sportsmen, editor for Sports Afield magazine, and the hunting partner of some of the biggest names in entertainment, politics, and business.
Jimmy was born in the small town of Kent, Minnesota in August 1897. On the death of his father in 1900, he moved to Winnipeg with his mother and brother, and lived with his grandfather, Sam Cruikshank, at his Maple Leaf Hotel in Elmwood, MB. In 1910, the Robinsons moved to Morden where Jimmy spent some of the happiest days of his life. He loved to hunt on his grandfather’s ranch seven miles south of town.
After serving his adopted country in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, playing hockey and semi-professional baseball, and exploring a career as a market hunter, Jimmy joined the Amateur Trapshooting Association as a statistician in 1922, an association that he maintained for the next fifty years. In 1926, he began writing for Sports Afield magazine, with his first article about his good friend, Annie Oakley. Renowned as a hunter, fisherman and conservationist, his writing career spanned 45 years. He wrote fourteen books on shooting and hunting. Each year since 1935, his duck survey of Western Canada was awaited eagerly by hundreds of newspapers all over North America. His contributions in building Ducks Unlimited were so great that they named him an honorary trustee in 1970. Sometimes called the “Sportsman of the Century,” Jimmy is the only man inducted into five Halls of Fame: Fishing, Minnesota, Skeet, Trapshooting, and Waterfowl.
Jimmy founded his first lodge at Delta Marsh in 1935 in a farmhouse near Portage Creek, Manitoba. Its more luxurious successor, dubbed the“Sports Afield Lodge” in honor of Jimmy’s long-time employer, was built in 1958 on the east side of the marsh, south of St. Ambroise.
Contributor: Andre No (50021316)
Journalist, sportsman.
He was one of the world’s most famous hunting writers and sportsmen, editor for Sports Afield magazine, and the hunting partner of some of the biggest names in entertainment, politics, and business.
Jimmy was born in the small town of Kent, Minnesota in August 1897. On the death of his father in 1900, he moved to Winnipeg with his mother and brother, and lived with his grandfather, Sam Cruikshank, at his Maple Leaf Hotel in Elmwood, MB. In 1910, the Robinsons moved to Morden where Jimmy spent some of the happiest days of his life. He loved to hunt on his grandfather’s ranch seven miles south of town.
After serving his adopted country in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, playing hockey and semi-professional baseball, and exploring a career as a market hunter, Jimmy joined the Amateur Trapshooting Association as a statistician in 1922, an association that he maintained for the next fifty years. In 1926, he began writing for Sports Afield magazine, with his first article about his good friend, Annie Oakley. Renowned as a hunter, fisherman and conservationist, his writing career spanned 45 years. He wrote fourteen books on shooting and hunting. Each year since 1935, his duck survey of Western Canada was awaited eagerly by hundreds of newspapers all over North America. His contributions in building Ducks Unlimited were so great that they named him an honorary trustee in 1970. Sometimes called the “Sportsman of the Century,” Jimmy is the only man inducted into five Halls of Fame: Fishing, Minnesota, Skeet, Trapshooting, and Waterfowl.
Jimmy founded his first lodge at Delta Marsh in 1935 in a farmhouse near Portage Creek, Manitoba. Its more luxurious successor, dubbed the“Sports Afield Lodge” in honor of Jimmy’s long-time employer, was built in 1958 on the east side of the marsh, south of St. Ambroise.
Contributor: Andre No (50021316)
He was one of the world’s most famous hunting writers and sportsmen, editor for Sports Afield magazine, and the hunting partner of some of the biggest names in entertainment, politics, and business.
Jimmy was born in the small town of Kent, Minnesota in August 1897. On the death of his father in 1900, he moved to Winnipeg with his mother and brother, and lived with his grandfather, Sam Cruikshank, at his Maple Leaf Hotel in Elmwood, MB. In 1910, the Robinsons moved to Morden where Jimmy spent some of the happiest days of his life. He loved to hunt on his grandfather’s ranch seven miles south of town.
After serving his adopted country in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, playing hockey and semi-professional baseball, and exploring a career as a market hunter, Jimmy joined the Amateur Trapshooting Association as a statistician in 1922, an association that he maintained for the next fifty years. In 1926, he began writing for Sports Afield magazine, with his first article about his good friend, Annie Oakley. Renowned as a hunter, fisherman and conservationist, his writing career spanned 45 years. He wrote fourteen books on shooting and hunting. Each year since 1935, his duck survey of Western Canada was awaited eagerly by hundreds of newspapers all over North America. His contributions in building Ducks Unlimited were so great that they named him an honorary trustee in 1970. Sometimes called the “Sportsman of the Century,” Jimmy is the only man inducted into five Halls of Fame: Fishing, Minnesota, Skeet, Trapshooting, and Waterfowl.
Jimmy founded his first lodge at Delta Marsh in 1935 in a farmhouse near Portage Creek, Manitoba. Its more luxurious successor, dubbed the“Sports Afield Lodge” in honor of Jimmy’s long-time employer, was built in 1958 on the east side of the marsh, south of St. Ambroise.
Contributor: Andre No (50021316)
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