It’s not case closed’: environmental group still searching for blastomycosis in northern Ontario First Nation – CBC
Nov 07, 2025
Four Rivers Environmental Service part of team that found blastomyces spore in Constance Lake in 2023 sample
A coroner’s jury has heard testimony that members of Constance Lake First Nation continue to live under the threat of a fungal lung disease, four years after an outbreak of blastomycosis claimed five lives in the community near Hearst.
But it also heard about the dogged efforts of one environmental group to continue to track and learn about the conditions that create the spores that cause the disease.
An inquest is looking at the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Luke Moore, Lorraine Shaganash, Lizzie Sutherland, Mark Ferris and Douglas Taylor due to blastomycosis.
