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History: Guides of Yarmouth
History: Guides of Yarmouth Chester Grey
Chester Grey
Chester was a game warden and also a fire warden. He went to work in 1933 at the Tobiatic Sanctuary and worked there for eleven years. He became Chief Ranger and retired in 1963. Following Chester's retirement Robert Gates Sr. became Chief Ranger. C.C. Burrill was Chief Ranger before Chester. In the late 1930's and 1940's the beaver population was becoming quite extinct in the northern part of the province. For a number of summers Chester land trapped beaver and transported them to Eastern and Northern Nova Scotia and helped to replenish their stock in those areas.. He was a moose hunting guide for years. His father , Jusdon , was one of the most famous guides in Yarmouth County during his time. One of the people Chester guided was a writer from the United States , Bertram Spiller. Chester was asked by the government to take Mr. Spiller fishing. He took him to the Tobiatic Sanctuary where there were large fish. Mr. Spiller wrote an article about Chester.

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