Remembrance (2013)
“All of them were killed when their car collided with a transport truck on the narrow wooden bridge outside of Tatamagouche, on the “Sunrise Trail.” It was near midnight and snowing quite heavily and the roads were slippery and the visibility poor. Perhaps Jacques was tired or unfamiliar with the narrow roads. It was said that when the occupants spilled from the car, the wife of David MacDonald and her oldest daughter were still alive, but it was snowing and dark and isolated and by the time hel...p arrived it was too late. Jacques, it was learned, worked in the laundry room of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Montreal. All of this information did not reach them until the following day. They had no telephone and the neighbours’ lines had been blown down by the storm.
After the car with the Quebec plates left the yard, they stood for a while and watched the red tail lights vanish into the enveloping snow and then they went inside where it was, at least, warmer. After a while the austere father said, “You better go out to the barn and put the ladder up to the hayloft.”MoreLess
After the car with the Quebec plates left the yard, they stood for a while and watched the red tail lights vanish into the enveloping snow and then they went inside where it was, at least, warmer. After a while the austere father said, “You better go out to the barn and put the ladder up to the hayloft.”MoreLess
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