Cougarman Percy: Percy Dewar

Vancouver Island pioneer, Percy Dewar, grandson of the legendary distiller in Scotland, was born in Extension, to a coal-mining family. Like the cougars that have exerted a lifelong fascination over him, he may be part of a dying breed on this island.

From a young age, he developed a love of nature in general and of animals in particular. He began to live in the woods and hunt cougar for bounty as a teen, and developed a reputation as one of the ablest hunters on the island, although he c...