Sperry Cline

He rode with the Matabele Field Force for the defence of Bulawayo and then stayed in South Africa, where he later fought in the Boer War, earning a Distinguished Conduct Medal.

In Hazelton he tried his hand at many jobs, beginning with mail delivery in the form of mushing the huskies down the frozen Skeena River to the coast and back again.

[citation needed] Shortly thereafter, Cline joined the police force at Hazelton and would be a policeman in British Columbia for the next thirty-two years.

[citation needed] While Cline lived in Hazelton he became acquainted with the mule-packer Cataline and the two men would often engage in long conversations.

Throughout his years on the Hazelton police force, he became known as a man of common sense and integrity, often willing to apply practical solutions to a situation, rather than always going "by the book".

[1] Many of these stories would be featured in the magazine BC Outdoors and some would go on to be published in Art Down's Pioneer Days in British Columbia series.