More than a century later, Almonte hero George Eccles finally has a headstone

A monument to George Eccles, who helped save more than 200 lives during a shipwreck in 1909, will be unveiled at the St. Paul’s Anglican Church cemetery on Wolf Grove Road.
The Almonte native was the first radio telegrapher to die at sea — bravely sticking to his post, summoning help — after the SS Ohio, a 340-foot steamer, struck a rock off the coast of British Columbia in the dead of an August night.
208 lives were saved.