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SAD DROWNING AT KEMPTVILLE

Young Lady and Brother of Doctor Streight Lose their Lives

[Welland Telegraph, 5 January 1912]

Many friends in Welland will regret to learn of the sad bereavement that befel Doctor Streight on Saturday when his brother, aged nineteen years, was drowned at Kemptville.

Doctor Streight, who had just finished his course at the Royal Victoria Hospital at Montreal, went to Kemptville to spend the weekend at his home prior to coming to Welland this week to join Doctor Colbeck with whom he has entered into partnership.

His brother was skating on the river with a young lady and both were drowned.

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