Any wood rod from the Saint John area should be looked at VERY carefully. Saint John was the center for rod makeing in Canada from about 1860 to about 1900, both of these dates are + or - a bit. There were 3 makers of note in the area, Dingee Scribner, C. Baillie, and Joe Dalzell, all of these makers worked with wood, like lancewood, greenheart and some times ash in the but sections. These rods often were "lashed", no ferrules, but not always. I have 2 Scribner rods that have brass, spiked ferrules. Many of these rods would have rattan or formed wood grips and flip ring guides were the norm. By todays standard these rods would out sized, many being
12' feet + in length.
The bottom line in all of this is that those wood rods could be a great find and very collectable. Some one with a background in old rods should look them over.
Bruce

Ps By the way, the sequence of materials would be, wood, calcutta cane, tonkin cane, fiberglass, etc.