Grave of the victims of the horrific Balsam Lake drowning has been waiting decades for repair. A cross that topped the stone was vandalized at St. James Cemetery about 30 years ago and has yet to be replaced. TheFixer
Who speaks for the dead, when they’ve been gone for nearly a century and are mostly forgotten?
But it generated worldwide headlines and shocked the city, where the boys who lost their lives were part of a leadership camp sponsored by an Anglican church in Toronto. The boys clung to the overturned canoe and tried to manoeuvre it to land until they slowly lost strength and began slipping under the surface, one at a time. An account in the Star said they sang and prayed before they “went to their deaths without a whimper.”
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