Ontario’s Officer of the Chief Coroner has confirmed that a body pulled from Sparrow Lake in Muskoka on Aug. 1 was a Toronto man who was missing from a cottage.
Ian Walker, 56, was at a Wiancko Road cottage with family when he set out in a canoe on the lake during the morning hours of July 29.
His canoe was found some distance away in Sparrow Lake, close to Riverview Drive in Severn Bridge, but with no sign of Walker.
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On the afternoon of Aug. 1, search divers located a body in Sparrow Lake, though the person’s identity couldn’t be confirmed until a post-mortem exam was finished.
Police suspect no foul play.
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