Walking across the lawn of the Sainte-Agnès de Lac-Mégantic church overlooking what used to be a bustling downtown core, Marie-Josée Grimard still hears her mother’s laugh ring throughout the town.
Ten years ago to the hour, the native of Lac-Mégantic Que. saw her mother, Henriette Latulippe, for the last time a mere hour before the downtown core and her mother’s home would be levelled by one of Canada’s worst rail disasters.
Just after 1:00 a.m. ET on July 6, 2013, 72 tank cars of crude oil destroyed the core of the town located in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, just north of Maine.
Latulippe, 61, who
