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Rural West Montrose is a picturesque village with a covered bridge that attracts tourists from all around the province - most of whom have no idea about the horrific murder-suicide that took place just a couple hundred feet away.

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Wilson Letson b. 1904 Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada d. 28 Dec 1947 West Montrose, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada: Waterloo Region Generations https://share.google/rOITYjHlJanGKkymK

Memories of murder-suicide still linger in West Montrose https://share.google/83u71PoO1zBrZpOkR

Winona Republican-Herald 29 December 1947 — Winona Newspaper Database https://share.google/cndDIF6h10bVAqxei

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Bridgeport Hotel, Bridgeport, Ontario: Waterloo Region Generations https://share.google/K3QEKHVKIVesTGaH9

Percy Letson b. Mar 1909 Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada d. 28 Dec 1947 West Montrose, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada: Waterloo Region Generations

Elisha "Losh" Pollock b. Jun 1862 , Ontario, Canada d. Yes, date unknown: Waterloo Region Generations

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Archibald Hewitt "Hugh" Letson b. 11 May 1904 West Montrose, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada d. 28 Dec 1947 West Montrose, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada: Waterloo Region Generations

Mary Eleanor "Eleanor" Springer b. 1929 Hardy, Saskatchewan d. 8 Nov 2005 Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario, Canada: Waterloo Region Generations

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