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Courtesy OPP
With his canoe yoked to a blue bicycle, people throughout Ontario remember seeing this man as he traveled southwest towards London, which he told a reporter was his final destination. He attracted lots
of attention during his travels, which would end with his body found washed ashore in Port Albert on Oct. 15.
Hundreds of tips received
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"I have been kicking myself ever
since I discovered that I missed the
opportunity to get his story first
hand;" she said.
Sept 27was the last date The Sig-
nal Star could find an eyewitness
sighting of the man when Steve
McRae saw him walkinghis bicycle
and canoe along Highway 21, just
south of PortAlbert.
"We saw him a couple days in a
row," McRae wrote to The Signal
Star. "... Saw him around dinner
time [Sept 26] camped out on the
side of the road under his canoe'
McRae said the canoe was
propped up at a 45 -degree angle
and he was using it for shelter. It
looked like he was reading a book,
he said.
"Next day he was walking his
bike, which was towing his canoe
on the side of the highway heading
south;' he said.
His body was then found two
weeks later in that same area. It has
since been transported to the Cen-
tre for Forensic Sciences in Toronto.
The investigation will be left open
until they can identify his body, said
Stanley.
Since the first media release ask-
ing
sking for the public's help to identify
the body, the OPP has received
hundreds of tips, and are continu-
ing to do so.
"There's enough people that
passed him on the side of the road
that made that mental thought,
`Huh, that's kind of different, look at
that setup,' Stanley said. `And I think
maybe a large part of that is the
vehicle he was with, this long, big
canoe. You just don't see people
towing a canoe on a bicycle. Where
do you see that? That's very
unusual"
The comments under Row -
land's Facebook post suggest that
people were taken by his ingenu-
ity and assumed he was an adven-
turous spirit.
Though nothing about the man
is known, Stanley said he assumes
he must have been personable
considering the two newspaper
articles that were produced on his
journey.
During the interview with the
Manitoulin Expositor, the reporter
asked the man known as Mitchell
Nelson more in statement of fact
than as a question that "this trip
was a good idea, wasn't it?"
"Was it?" replied the man with
a question of his own before con-
tinuing his joumey.
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