By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor TORONTO\u2014He was found where the city loosens its grip\u2014near the Don\u00a0River and Queen Street East\u2014on July 26, 2002. No wallet. No papers. No\u00a0one pacing the shoreline asking questions. Toronto Police say foul play was not suspected. Just a man, unnamed, carried out of the water and\u00a0filed into a system that is very good at holding onto bodies and very bad\u00a0at holding onto stories. Twenty-three years later, that man still has no name. But the story has begun to speak. Through Investigative Genetic Genealogy, Toronto Police have learned\u00a0that most of his ancestry is Indigenous, rooted in Manitoulin Island and\u00a0the Algoma region, braided with French and Acadian lines. Two-thirds\u00a0Indigenous. One-third European. A familiar map to many families here. His DNA shares… <\/p>\n
By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor TORONTO\u2014He was found where the city loosens its grip\u2014near the Don\u00a0River and Queen Street East\u2014on July 26, 2002. No wallet. No papers. No\u00a0one pacing the shoreline asking questions. Toronto Police say foul play was not suspected. Just a man, unnamed, carried out of the water and\u00a0filed into a system that is very good at holding onto bodies and very bad\u00a0at holding onto stories. Twenty-three years later, that man still has no name. But the story has begun to speak. Through Investigative Genetic Genealogy, Toronto Police have learned\u00a0that most of his ancestry is Indigenous, rooted in Manitoulin Island and\u00a0the Algoma region, braided with French and Acadian lines. Two-thirds\u00a0Indigenous. One-third European. A familiar map to many families here. His DNA shares... <\/p>\n