Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is considering naming a few local lakes after Canadian Armed Forces members who died while serving.
The Ontario Geographic Names Board has identified seven lakes it does not believe have names - all seven are described as "south of Negwazu Lake in the District of Algoma", two are in the "Geographic Township of Bernst", two in the "Geographic Township of Ashley", and the other three are clustered in the "Geographic Township of Alanen".
Proposed names: "Singh Lake", for Royal Canadian Infantry 20th Battalion Private Bukan Singh, who it says died during World War I, on August 27, 1919; "Gibbs Lake", for Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Officer Navigator Reginald Cuthbert Gibbs, who died during the Second World War on September 21, 1944; "Perrier" and "Pitt" Lakes, for Royal Canadian Navy seamen Patrick Allen Perrier and Thomas Stewart Pitt who died after a fire on the HMCS Nipigon in 1965; and "Stringer", "Galloway", and "Hardy" Lakes for Royal Canadian Navy seamen Lewis John Stringer, Nelson Murray Galloway, and Michael Alan hardy, all of whom died after an explosion on the HMCS Kootenay in 1969.
A questionnaire about the proposed names has been posted on the MNRF website.