Ketchecum Hunt Membership chronicled
Members of one in every of North America’s oldest repeatedly operating hunt camps are working to protect its legacy for generations to come back.
A brand new e book tells the historical past of an Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters-affiliated membership that took root within the early 1860s. Ketchecum Hunt Membership: One Hundred Years on Catchacoma Lake will probably be accessible in early September.
Co-authored by Catherine Dibben and Barbara LaPerrière, the e book focuses on when the Buckhorn-area membership’s base was a cabin on a distinguished level overlooking a seashore in a five-lake chain. That rustic constructing, inbuilt 1901, was used yearly till 2000.
The e book’s creators drew from generations of images and logbooks detailing the searching life. Quite a few photographs had been taken by notable Peterborough photographer Fred Roy, one of many many well-known native businessmen and professionals who attended Ketchecum within the early 1900s.
Persevering with the legacy
The e book venture began in 2010 when Ketchecum member John Martin voiced a need to acknowledge the historic worth of the membership’s legacy, fellow member and e book committee member Peter Calvert stated. A member since 1981, he first began going to the camp each November together with his dad in 1978.
“Personally, I respect the legacy of the membership, the members earlier than me and the truth that I get to profit from what they developed and maintained,” Calvert stated. “I work on a regular basis to attempt to make it possible for the membership lasts for an additional 100 years and past.”
For Calvert, Ketchecum is greater than a bunch of hunters.
“We’re associates who get collectively a minimum of yearly not solely to hunt however to get pleasure from one another’s firm, get pleasure from good meals, take care of our property, keep our constructing, and luxuriate in our time outdoors within the woods,” he stated. “The membership has been an enormous a part of my life and continues to be.”
A e book launch and signing on the Canadian Canoe Museum at 2077 Ashburnham Drive in Peterborough from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28 is about. The authors and present membership members membership will probably be readily available for signings.
Ketchecum Hunt Membership: One Hundred Years on Catchacoma will probably be accessible in early September at bookstores in Peterborough and Lakefield, and at: www.ketchecumhuntclub.ca
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