The Businessman on the River

urdoch MacKenzie filled a void between wealthy camp members and the hired help, being both a camp owner and a guide with an outfitting service. He was not alone. Others took the same opportunity to profit from a growing tourist industry by establishing camps with these attendant services. The accommodations, while not luxurious, were affordable to the growing number of in- and out-of-province tourists who came to the rivers in the first quarter of the twentieth century. MacKenzie himself started out early in the century and by the 1920s had established several camps on the North Branch, Main Southwest Miramichi River, Carleton County.