Charles Christopher Jenkins was born on September 17, 1882, in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time of his wedding in 1908, Jenkins was working as city editor of the Chatham Daily Planet. In the early 1920s (perhaps when the Planet ceased publication in 1922), he moved on to the general interest magazine Maclean's, based in Toronto, and from there to the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper. In addition to his journalistic work, Jenkins wrote fiction.
