Jeremiah Perry was supposed to return from an adventure to Algonquin Park with leadership skills, memories and mosquito bites.
But the 15-year-old will never go back to his Toronto home.
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The body of the young teen was found after he went missing while swimming during a trip that is part of a summer school outdoor education program.
OPP constable Catherine Yarmel tells NEWSTALK 1010 Jeremiah had been swimming in Big Trout Lake when he went under the water at about 8 p.m. Tuesday and didn't resurface. The lake is in the interior of the provincial park, a difficult to access point west of its geographical centre.
Jeremiah and his older brother Marrion were among 33 students who set out for Algonquin Sunday. The group was scheduled to return to Toronto Friday but their trip was cut short.
Toronto District School Board spokesperson Shari Schwartz-Maltz said 18 of the students were loaded onto a bus late Wednesday night and driven back to C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute. Despite the late hour, she said a team of social workers would be on site and the school would be open for those who needed support.
The remainder of the students were out on a portage and were to be picked up from a pre-determined area in the park and driven home on Thursday.
Jeremiah was a student at C.W. Jefferys. The boy's father, Joshua Anderson confesses his mother didn't want them to go on the trip, though he didn't not explain why. Anderson's says the trip's co-coordinator called him to talk it up. Jeremiah's dad expressed no concerns about his sons' safety during their Algonquin adventure.
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Schwartz-Maltz says students had to pass a swim test in order to join and that some were turned away because they didn't pass the test.
Anderson says his sons participated in a day of training but didn't know exactly what had happened there.