Veronica McGregor

Mrs. Veronica McGregor is # 1381 on the 1907 Wooster Roll where she is identified as the cousin of Mrs. Lizette Jacob # 1366 of Manitowaning, Manitoulin Island, Ontario. No traditional name is recorded.

In 1907 when Mrs. Veronica McGregor was age 40 she was living at Birch Island, Ontario where she held full rights in Canada.

Birch Island Cemetery is significant because of the illegal excavation of graves by Emerson Greenman of University of Michigan, Ann Arbour, Michigan described in Greenman's 1951 publication "Old Birch Island Cemetery and the early historic trade route, Georgian Bay, Ontario" REF: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM1512523&R=151... .

More details about graves in the vicinity of Birch Island are to be found at http://roadsidethoughts.com/on/birch-island-genealogy.htm

Birch Island is in territory of Whitefish River First Nation which has a website at http://www.whitefishriver.ca/