William Henry (Bill) Guppy

Bill Guppy pursued a variety of occupations throughout his life, as the writer Hal Pink noted in his biographical book:

  Bill Guppy: King of the Woodsmen:

[H]e set out alone to earn his living as a boy fur-buyer at the age of fourteen, during half a century in the Northern Wild he had been in turn Indian trader, trapper, hunter, teamster, lumberjack, fire ranger, prospector, dog-driver, mail-runner, hunting guide, canoeist, packer, storekeeper, bush postmaster, and professional builder of log cabins. He spent most of his life in the Lake Timiskaming, Lake Temagami and Lake Abitibi regions of northeastern Ontario and northwestern Quebec. He is remembered for his association with the popular writer and conservationist Grey Owl.[

Given his occupation as "Bushman," Guppy enlisted with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on April 25, 1916, and served on the front line in the First World War. Bill Guppy also worked as a carpenter on the 1930 film The Silent Enemy, which was shot on location in Temagami