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History: Guides of Yarmouth Ken Mood

KEN MOOD
Ken started guiding at the age of eighteen in the Oakland camp, Birchdale and Braemar . He hunted bird, moose and deer. For twenty years he guided with Warren Grey. He began to guide in 1915 with a Mr. Charles Reeves , Sr. Oxen were usually used to get to the camp. Later horses were also used. On a typical fishing trip with a party of eight canoes, they usually left on a Sunday. They went to Oakland Lake, Portaged across to Cranberry Lake then to Buckshot. The party stayed overnight and the next day started down the Sheburne River as far as Irving Lake, portaged to House Lake and then to Spetch Lake, on to Junction Lake down the Roseway to Upper Ohio, Shelburne County. One of the trips was made with teenagers who knew nothing about canoeing. For this trip there were twenty bags of food with one case of milk.

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