Top 5 This Week

L. Huron body confirmed as bike-peddling canoeist

September 25, 2024

2 min.read

biker-canoer — The man in the above photograph taken by Rick McCutcheon in the fall of 2016 has been identified by police as Garnet Michael Nelson. This was the last photo taken of Mr. Nelson before his death. Expositor file photo

Garnet Michael Nelson identified eight years after Expositor interviewMANITOULIN—It was long suspected but finally confirmed thanks to DNA and genealogy research; the body of a man that washed ashore in Lake Huron was the same man interviewed in a 2016 story in The Expositor. His last words to this newspaper were chilling when taken in […]

Sorry, you have encountered our paywall

Sorry, you do not have access to this article. If you are a member, please log in below or click here.

If you would like to subscribe please click here.

If you believe that you have received this notice in error, please email Debbie at services@manitoulin.com or call 705-368-2744.

Article written by

Michael Erskine

Michael Erskine BA (Hons) is a staff writer at The Manitoulin Expositor. He received his honours BA from Laurentian University in 1987. His former lives include underground miner, oil rig roughneck, early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, college professor and community legal worker. Michael has written several college course manuals and has won numerous Ontario Community Newspaper Awards in the rural, business and finance and editorial categories.