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History: Guides of Yarmouth George Thinkham
George Thinkham
He started guiding in Braemar in 1940 and guided Frederick Buck Dumaine for ten years. He was from
Boston, Mass. George guided for bird and deer hunting.He also guided Mr. Allen McMartin from Montreal.
He guided Bob Habgood from Pennsylvania He guided for deer in Quinan and for birds in Yarmouth and Digby counties.
He worked in Birchdale, guiding for Selwyn Ring and later for Spencer Harris. Most of the
people he guided were from the United States. He also had his own camp in Quinan on Gull Lake where he
guided people.A story that George tells concerns a person he had taken out for bird hunting. After they got all
the way out to Quinan, they discovered that he did not have his license. They had to go all the way back to
Pleasant Lake to buy a license. After they arrived back in the woods, the man fired all of his shots at some birds
and he missed every time. The next day he wanted to hunt again, but only for half a day and became quite upset
when he found out that he would have to pay for a full day. He refused to pay. He hunted around the perimeter of the camp.
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