George Pollock died, aged 78, in Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada on 21 Sep 1894. He was buried in Bayview Cemetery, 505-581 Elm Street, Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. Though a picture of his gravestone was uploaded to the BillionGraves website it is hard to read anything from it. According to the photographer it states : George Pollock Born: 1816 Died: 21 Sep 1894. George’s daughter Sarah and her husband William Hyde were buried in the same cemetery in a grave with their son Albert. Sarah’s brother John Pollock was buried nearby. Wiarton is a community in Bruce County, Ontario, at the western end of Colpoys Bay, an inlet off Georgian Bay, on the Bruce Peninsula. The community is part of the town of South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. Wiarton's most important businesses were initially founded on the lumber industry. The harvest of timber and the manufacture of goods from lumber were an important industry early in the town's development, until two widespread forest fires, the first in the late 1800s and the later in the early 1900s, wiped out the local forests. The next most important industry was fishing. In 1906, Wiarton was awarded a federal fish hatchery, which helped maintain the fish stock in the area for many years. Fishing was at its peak in the early 20th century, but suffered from the introduction of the invasive sea lamprey to the upper Great Lakes through the Welland Canal in 1921. By 1932, the sea lamprey had arrived in Georgian Bay, and, together with the Great Depression, it brought the decline of the fishing industry. In 1881, the first train arrived in the town as part of Grand Trunk Railway system, for which Wiarton served as its northern terminus, extending to a new wharf in Colpoys Bay constructed in 1882. The last passenger train ran in 1957, when the Canadian government cut back funding on the railways. Freight trains continued using the tracks until 1968, when the lines were abandoned.