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Sudbury District Cemeteries,
McDougall Township
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| Location |
Located at French River Village in the French and Pickerel districts. Pioneer burying place located on the east bank of the French River and Georgian Bay. |
| Status | No Longer in use |
| Oldest Known Internment | 1904 |
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| Maps | Not Available Yet |
| Directions |
This cemetery is actually located in Sudbury District and not Parry Sound. But it was included with other Parry Sound cemeteries in the book, "These Our Ancestors Were". It is located in a very remote area that is not accessible by road, only by boat. The village of French River is now a ghost town and is mentioned in the book, "Ghost Towns of Ontario", by Ron Brown. You can get their by boat from either Key Harbour or Henvey Inlet.
The following is the transcript from the book "These Our Ancestors Were", 1974.
Apparently this was quite a sawmill area and in 1875 was known as Copananing. This is the area where the famous ship Asia went down with everybody being lost but two.
The village was later known as French River Village and was a thriving community in the late 1800’s. There remains here a trace of the old Copananing Hotel, a jail and the trace of a cemetery, with a few headstones standing. Some of the headstones are believed to have been moved elsewhere. There is a Catholic Cemetery inland from the village on the river but is inaccessible because of musky and high water.
The hand drawn gravestones are located behind Reg McIntosh’s on east bank of the French River. (1974)
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Gone But Not Forgotten WILSON WICKS |
LORA WILSON Born October 1, 1905 Died October 15, 1906 |
BABA WILSON Died August 1904 |
ELSIE ANN BROOKS Died April 23, 1907 Aged 4 years 4 months 14 days |