Hundreds of townspeople in Lac-Mégantic, Que., fell silent on the lawn of the Sainte-Agnès church on Thursday as 47 bells echoed through town. They bowed their heads, honouring each life lost in the train derailment and explosion that levelled its downtown 10 years ago.
Dignitaries stood, hands clasped, some laying bouquets of flowers on the nearby monument that lists the names of those who were killed.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in attendance and committed to the completion of the highly contested rail bypass project which would move the rails out of the core of the town of 6,000 in Quebec’s Eastern
