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Varney is a small community in Grey County, Ontario, Canada. Varney is located on Highway 6, about 5 kilometers south of Durham and 19 kilometers north of Mount Forest.[1]
John Vernon Pettigrew, Men's Featherweight Wrestler (1936 Olympic Summer games), was born in Varney, in 1908.[2]