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My Guide |
A guide poses for his « sport » long ago at Goose Pond on the Tobique River. Members of the Maliseet and Micmac communities played an instrumental role in guiding the first non-aboriginal hunters and fisherfolk into the virgin wilds of New Brunswick.
It must have appeared to the paying customers that the game was limitless, and the forests and rivers stretched unbroken forever. We now know they do not. We owe these guides a great debt, which we can repay only by protecting the wilderness they once called home … and still do.
Someday I will meet this gentleman. We will have many tales to share, by a small fire, under a starry sky, beside a quiet stream.
Images courtesy of New Brunswick Archives
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