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History: Guides of Yarmouth
History: Guides of Yarmouth Tom Jeffrey
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He started guiding in the early 1920's. In 1986 he is eighty-four years old. He guided at Oak Hill cabins for fifty-four years. He was caretaker for the last ten of those years. Most of the people coming to Oak Hill were from the United States. Mr. Jeffery has been a resident of Kemptville for seventy years. He began by taking fishing trips and later hunting trips. He worked for many years for Lloyd Ring in Birchdale. Mr. Jeffery also had a camp of his own on the edge of the Blue Mountains and also at Nephcead Lake. One person Mr. Jeffery guided was a Mr. Steckel who was the leader of the Republican Party. He worked for the Motor Vehicle Branch in Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Steckel was one of twenty-five people who ran the camp. Mr. Steckel was an avid fisherman. Another individual, Wilfred Koritem, spent many hours feeding squirrels as a past-time and he also hunted at Bartlets. Mr. Jeffery remembers guiding in Birchdale with the first aluminum canoes in the area. They would spend anywhere from ten days to two weeks at a time in the woods. A guide would make anywhere from one dollar to two dollars fifty cents a day. Lloyd always supplied food and canoes.

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