Peter Thomas
Lost Land of Moses: The Age of Discovery on New Brunswick's Salmon Rivers
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In the 1830s, fly-fishing for salmon was popular among the English leisure classes, but in New Brunswick, natives and settlers alike caught their dinners more efficiently with nets and spears. However, when British officers from the garrisons ventured into the woods with the local natives, the situation began to change.Moses Perley, a lawyer with many business and political interests and a gift for contagious enthusiasm, popularized the gentlemanly sport of salmon angling in his home waters. Between 1839 and 1841, his articles in the London Sporting Review described canoe trips into the New Brunswick interior with Micmac or Maliseet companion…
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In the 1830s, fly-fishing for salmon was popular among the English leisure classes, but in New Brunswick, natives and settlers alike caught their dinners more efficiently with nets and spears. However, when British officers from the garrisons ventured into the woods with the local natives, the situation began to change.Moses Perley, a lawyer with many business and political interests and a gift for contagious enthusiasm, popularized the gentlemanly sport of salmon angling in his home waters. Between 1839 and 1841, his articles in the London Sporting Review described canoe trips into the New Brunswick interior with Micmac or Maliseet companions. He recommended such adventures to any young man blessed with youth, health, and an ardent temperament, and British and American anglers rose to his challenge.Soon, sojourns in the wilderness became organized adventures. Steamships brought fishermen (and sometimes their wives and children) to the mouth of the Restigouche or Nepisiquit, and by 1876, the Intercolonial Railway delivered them almost to the salmon pools. In 1879, the Governor General of Canada, the Marquis of Lorne, and his daring wife, Princess Louise, spent two glorious weeks on the Restigouche, complete with vice-regal retinue and carpeted tents.Moses Perley didn't foresee the results of luring anglers to New Brunswick's teeming rivers. Salmon waters began to be leased, and only wealthy people could fish them. Rich sportsmen founded clubs, built expansive camps, and hired wardens to patrol the pools. By the 1880s, the native guides had been reduced to mere servants. The legacy of that period is with us today.
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- ISBN: 978-0-86492-293-9
- EAN: 9780864922939
- Produktnummer: 9605162
- Verlag: Goose Lane Ed
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.8 cm 336 g
- Auflage: No
- Gewicht: 336
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